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Sous Vide Chinese Crispy Roasted Pork Belly (Siu Yuk / Siu Gee Yuk / Sio Bak)

Sous Vide Chinese Crispy Roasted Pork Belly (Siu Yuk / Siu Gee Yuk / Sio Bak)

Growing up in a Chinese household, roasted meats regularly made it onto our dinner table each week. However, given the fact that both my mother and father worked full-time jobs, in addition to raising three crazy misbehaved children, these meats were never prepared at home (despite my mother being an amazing cook). It would just take too dang long.

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Modernist Cuisine 72 Hour Sous Vide Beef Short Ribs with Red Wine Sauce

Modernist Cuisine 72 Hour Sous Vide Beef Short Ribs with Red Wine Sauce

Another holiday, another ridiculously beefy dinner. For Christmas, I made a Beef Wellington for my family and Trevin’s to (deliciously) celebrate with. And the next week, I was headed to the Cascade Mountains to celebrate New Years with a close group of friends and their children. After about four seconds of deliberation via email, we settled on beef short ribs for New Year’s Eve… and I volunteered (as tribute) to be the chef that night.

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Sous Vide 36-hour Pork Carnitas

Sous Vide 36-hour Pork Carnitas

Finally found a delicious recipe over at Stefan’s Gourmet Blog for Pork Carnitas that turned out marvelously for a dinner party we had the other night. Everyone of our guests commented how juicy and tender the pork was. Winner! Due to laziness of not wanting to make our own pork stock in Stefan’s original recipe, we substituted chicken stock instead and the dish didn’t seem to miss a beat.

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Dead Simple and Delicious Sous Vide BBQ Brisket

Dead Simple and Delicious Sous Vide BBQ Brisket

One of my coworkers brought back a gift pack of BBQ sauce and rub from Salt Lick BBQ, and we were left with a conundrum: what to do with this stuff? Well, it turns out that you should have a meat-acular potluck on a random Monday. I wanted to sous vide something, someone else is working on the ribs, someone else on the beans, etc.

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