Ok, enough with all those travel and event posts. Time for an actual food-from-scratch post! Pastrami! This is one definitely one of our favorite dishes! In New York where I’m from (Mid-Hudson Valley) there’s nothing like a good pastrami sandwich from a proper deli. Head to Montreal and Quebec City and you’ll find it’s calledContinue reading “How to Make Homemade Pastrami (a.k.a Smoked Meat)”
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St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef (Part 1 – brining the beef)
Corned beef. A staple of St Patrick’s Day here in America, along with green beer and a green river, at least here in Chicago. This year instead of buying the supermarket corned beef I decided to make my own. Armed with a brine recipe from Ruhlman’s Charcuterie I picked up a 4 lb slab ofContinue reading “St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef (Part 1 – brining the beef)”
The Roaming GastroGnome 