{"id":250,"date":"2011-02-17T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-02-17T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:14:08","slug":"charcutepalooza-documenting-for-the-sake-of-documenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Charcutepalooza: Documenting for the sake of documenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on the brine for March&#8217;s Charcutepalooza challenge. The basic challenge is a brined whole chicken or pork chops, the advanced one is a corned beef brisket.<\/p>\n<p>Right now we&#8217;re sufficiently meat-ed out, so I&#8217;m opting for a basic-and-a-half challenge, and brining a duck. (Yes, this is the one I was originally going to make prosciutto out of, but I just cannot yet find a decent spot to do that, so it&#8217;s getting back-burnered until later.)<\/p>\n<p>This is what I&#8217;m brining it with:<\/p>\n<h2>American Melting Pot Duck Brine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>5 1\/2 quarts water<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c. Blend 1776 black tea (maple-strawberry, and safe to overbrew &#8212; does not get bitter)<\/li>\n<li>1 c. kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c. maple sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 tangerines, squeezed into the pot, rinds added to the pot<\/li>\n<li>around 30 peppercorns<\/li>\n<li>about a head of garlic, separated into cloves<\/li>\n<li>half a large onion, thickly sliced<\/li>\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n<li>2 blades of mace<\/li>\n<li>1 bunch cilantro (homegrown)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 smoked haba\u00c3\u00b1ero (homegrown)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The duck will go in the brine tonight, get pulled out tomorrow morning, and then be smoked if weather permits, and roasted if not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on the brine for March&#8217;s Charcutepalooza challenge. The basic challenge is a brined whole chicken or pork chops, the advanced one is a corned beef brisket. Right now we&#8217;re sufficiently meat-ed out, so I&#8217;m opting for a basic-and-a-half challenge, and brining a duck. (Yes, this is the one I was originally going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149,4],"tags":[151,150],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charcutepalooza-2","category-improv","tag-brine","tag-duck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-42","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}