Pork Belly?

[Barbarian]

Got some pork belly today at Costco. Cut it into 3 inch pieces, rubbed it with a good pork rib rub, and baked it at 400 degrees F for about 35 minutes, just short of burning. I then brushed it with a sweet BBQ sauce, and put it back in for about 5 minutes.

Fat had pretty much rendered out of it, and it was tender and good.

Sorry, no picture. By the time I thought about it, it was all gone.

 

[daninthelionsden]

buuuurp! it tasted good in my imagination.

 

[Quantrill]

Got some pork belly today at Costco. Cut it into 3 inch pieces, rubbed it with a good pork rib rub, and baked it at 400 degrees F for about 35 minutes, just short of burning. I then brushed it with a sweet BBQ sauce, and put it back in for about 5 minutes.

Fat had pretty much rendered out of it, and it was tender and good.

Sorry, no picture. By the time I thought about it, it was all gone.

Sure sounds good. I'm going to have to try it.

Quantrill

 

[stovebolts]

I’ve never even thought about Pork Belly, but it sounds good!

 

[Barbarian]

Sure sounds good. I'm going to have to try it.

Quantrill

I should say that the pork belly was packaged, cut into strips like very thick bacon (which it would be if it was smoked), so I didn't need much time to bake it.

I'm planning on doing this again, chopped as a filling for baked potato with some shredded sharp cheddar.

 

[Luminous_Rose]

It's always so good when it's cooked for a while. I don't think I've had good BBQ pork for a long time. I bet it's tasty. I like a big cut of pork shoulder in the crockpot for 10 hours.

 

[Quantrill]

I should say that the pork belly was packaged, cut into strips like very thick bacon (which it would be if it was smoked), so I didn't need much time to bake it.

I'm planning on doing this again, chopped as a filling for baked potato with some shredded sharp cheddar.

I'm sure I've ate it before, though I didn't know what the part was called. I raised a few hogs in the past and would slaughter and butcher some myself instead of taking them to the slaughter house. But I am no professional butcher.

Once I tried to take the part of hog where you get the bacon from to the slaughter house so they could cure it and slice it up. But they told me I didn't cut it right and they couldn't do it. So I had them just use it to make ground pork.

Is the pork belly you buy cured?

Quantrill

 

[Barbarian]

No. I get mine at Costco, and it's just sliced pork belly. Looks like bacon, but not smoked or cured.

 

[Barbarian]

With kale and red cabbage.

 

[daninthelionsden]

With kale and red cabbage.

A perfect Keto meal........yummy