Georgies Website Now Live!

I've written about these guys before.

I love what they're doing - no liquid smoke here! All authentic wood smoked Pork products!

Their site is now live, telling the story of how this great family business started, and expanded to become what it is today.

Great website!

Go check them out, and look for their products in stores near you!

Congrats Georgies! I look forward to your meat!

We don't eat Pork

"Sorry black boys, only white men can handle this", she says.
See the responses she got!

The Dirty Dozen with Dingley Dell

The Leather Bottle in Earlsfield, London are having a Pork Fest of sorts.
Loads of information about it in their email flyer, except a date.
Who sends out an email flyer about an event but forgets to include the date?

Anyway...here the details.

The Dirty Dozen with Dingley Dell
The Leather Bottle, Earlsfield
Sunday, 27 September 2015 from 16:00 to 23:00 (BST)
London, United Kingdom

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The Lacuna Restaurant at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton is a fantastic place for a get together.

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The great thing about the Lacuna Restaurant is once you've finished gorging yourself on their great menu, including Pork, apricot and pistachio terrine, potted pork with mustard and pickles as an appetizer, or the Baby back Pork spareribs, or the Pork Belly and crackling for mains, you can make your way through to the Lacuna Bar and settle in for some Cigars and Whiskey or Cognac. With over 10 different types of Cognacs, and more than 50 different Whisky's, this is definitely the place to finish off the evening before heading upstairs to your room in the Maslow Hotel.

Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs. Geek

From the guys who brought us "Rub some Bacon on it", comes the Epic Rap Battle: Nerd vs Geek! And it does get airplay here as it mentions Pork!

Their names are Rhett & Link. Check out there YouTube page for more great videos.

Fake beef is Pork

While it makes sense that people are trying to convince us that Pork is actually beef, I don't like what they're putting in there!
Paraffin Wax has no place in my meat! But of course this happened in China - watch your meat out there people!


Check out the article here.


Thanks Tweeds.

Pork Pie Stamps

Mole sent this link through to check out how to make a Pork Pie Stamp using a laser cutter. I guess it's not really for the masses (yet) but I know a guy with a laser cutter so this could be a fun project sometime!

Check it out at the site here.

Jihawg Ammo

So I noticed this on the web this morning. There is a company that seems to be a little miffed about something or other and have decided to take it out on their Muslim brothers. But only if they are trying to kill you in the name of a Jihad. If they're just trying to kill you cause they're bad people then this is not the product for you!

Basically they're coating their bullets in Pork infused paint. So they believe that if a fundamentalist Muslim is attacking you in the name of a Jihad, and you shoot them with your Jihawg Ammo, then they won't go to heaven with their 72 virgins, but instead straight to hell.
How much credibility there is in these claims, who knows. I'd have to actually read a religious book to tell you that - unless someone can tell me that themselves!

So check out the original article over at the Huffington Post - got to love it!

Don't change America. Don't change. The world loves you just the way you are!

Vark Klub - Fusion Cooking School

Last night Vark Klub ventured off into to the Fusion Cooking School for our very own private cooking class!
And if you put twelve Pork enthusiasts, our own beer and a great host chef in Shaun Smith who prepares a fantastic menu of 5 Pork dishes, you're in for a winning evening!

The Fusion Cooking School is located in Westville, kwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and caters for private classes (like ours), regular classes where you sign up for a set menu, as well as being a full time chef school. So we knew we were in the right hands! These guys are pros!
They also have their own restaurant based in Durban in Silverton Road. 

So all I can say is do yourselves a favour and contact the Fusion Cooking School to arrange your next fun night out. You can customise the menu yourself, or join a group class.
The full list of menus is on their site so check them out!

Vark Club - Smoked Pulled Pork

Another edition of Vark Club - this time it was my turn to host. The plan - Smoked Pulled Pork Shoulder.
I started the fire in the Weber around 9:30am. Meat went in (after having been prepped and rubbed the night before) at around 10am.
Checking throughout the day, adding more coals, adding more hickory wood chips, and just watching. Luckily I work from home so have the time to do this!
Around 4ish I started getting nervous the skin wasn't crisping up properly so cranked up the heat by adding quite a few more coals.
Well I have to say it turned out fantastically! The smoke ring was clear to see! Trying to get it off the grid you could see it start falling apart - the dudes were most impressed! And so much flavour yet again!
Winner winner Porky dinner!

Thanks to Spoem for the photos.

Vark Club

Last night was Vark Club, hosted by Sambo, and what a Vark Club it was! The man out did himself. Out of his boots! He cooked up a storm of Schweinsbraten, potatoes with Bacon and sauerkraut.

Here is the recipe he used for the Schweinsbraten (slow roast shoulder of pork). And a couple of photos of the meal - all accompanied by some great beer and good company.

 Click through for more pictures...

Homemade Sausages, Candied Bacon and Bitch Morgans

Mincer and Jack Daniel's - in for a good evening!

Last night we were all invited to Cheese's house for Vark Club. It's been a while since our last Vark Club so were all suitably excited and ventured forth. On the agenda was sausage making (Cheese has a mincer and has recently perfected the art of making sausages - see the post from a few days ago here).

Homemade Sausages

Cheese arrived at Friday afternoon's ride with a small cooler box looking like he was transporting a human heart in desperate need of a body. But it was better than that. It was some homemade Pork sausages in desperate need of a belly! And into mine they went!
Saturday morning breakfast fry up.

I can't quite recall what Cheese said went into them but I could taste the flavours! Fantastic! And the texture was great - loads of real Pork meat, along with real chunks of onions. These were the best he's made so far!

Thanks Cheese!

Here are some of the photos.

Before going on the grill

Bacon - because you can't have breakfast without Bacon

Ready to be eaten

Look at the texture! Awesome!

Homemade Fuzzy's Grub Zaam

It has been a long time since I had a Pork Zaam at Fuzzy's Grub in London. Well, yesterday I cooked a fantastic Pork neck. Slow cooked with some great roast tatties, butternut and onion. The gravy was made then a couple of cooked apples were blended in...WOW! Fantastic gravy!

So today comes around. There are leftovers. I have bread. This can only lead to one thing....a remaking of the famous Fuzzy's Pork Sandwich! Happy days!

Gather up some bread, roast tatties, butternut, onion and roast Pork. The Pork neck was super tender!

Slagerij De Leeuw

Sambo is chasing tail across the world and his latest stop was the Amsterdam. We won't talk about what he's really been up to, but we will talk about what he's sent me.
He stopped in on this place called "Slagerij De Leeuw" - ok so I don't know what that means either - something about the Slaughter House of the Lion.
Well they have a website and everything - owned by Yolanda and Fred Leeuw. It's all in Dutch, but from the pictures it looks like a top butcher.  From their website it says they have over 45 years of experience in Europe with exclusive products from all around the world. They are third generation butchers and are now house hold names in Holland.

This is what butchers should be!

And this is what Sam did there - he sampled some meat. 
Read through to the article for pictures and more information about Sam's sampling.

Loving Hams

Spotted this at the Hellenic Breakfast Market on Saturday morning in Durban North.
Looks like they have a website and they deliver every week to the greater Durban area. Smoked Bacon, roasts, ribs hams, sausages...pretty much everything made by a pig it seems.

Loving Hams - quite like the name too.

From their site -
Loving Hams is aptly derived from our family surname, Luffingham.
We are pork producers hailing from humble beginnings in Winterton,
Kwazulu Natal, where we have been farming successfully through three generations from Geoffrey to Nigel to Lance Luffingham.
We are well known in the community, and our heritage in the pork industry stretches back to 1936.

If you're in the Durban area in need of some Bacon delivered why not give them a try...I might.

Loving Hams.

SA Pork Kwai Challenge

Randburg Harriers recently organized the SA Pork Kwai Challenge. From what I can gather this is a running race of sorts. Some kind of fun run (oxymoron?) perhaps.

Spotted in Westville Spar - Pork Scratchings