Honey enhances flavor of this cured round-porkloin bacon.

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Honey rounded-off  the flavor of this round porkloin bacon.
In the production of our frozen processed meat line, definite as the sun will rise, is our use of U.S.FDA-Approved food grade Sodium Nitrite (NaNO3) granules to “cure” the different types of meat we market.
Our own brands of “meat cures” are blends of
very fine salt, NaNO3 & food phosphates.
And that’s for the “cure”.
Now for that part of pork to use:
aside from ham & pre-marinated skewered pork BBQ, we utilize porkloin in the production of bacon strips and Canadian round. Reason being: it’s not so dry & tough when bitten unlike the leg or picnic shoulder.
The inter-layering of pork fat with lean, similar to premium beef’s “marbling”, makes porkloin a wiser raw-mat choice, tender, better quality and really tasteful end products. Apart from utilizing plain cure, we add honey to our curing-marinating blend. This unique ingredient renders a bit of sweetness to otherwise too salty bacon that our clients prefer more than the widely produced ones of the multi-nationals.
Should you have bought lately, you can still alter your stocks’ taste for the better.
Go to the mixture of: 200ml water, 20 grams of your fave honey, 15ml of pineapple juice, 3 grams sugar & 2 grams salt.
Mix and tumble all together until all solid ingredients are dissolved.
A little heating will definitely help to get the blend well mixed.
In a suitable container, pour in your “honey blend marinade”, dump your strips or rounds and give them a good massaging and tumbling and tossing. Refrigerate overnight.

Ready to fry & serve.

Taste the difference.
My family enjoys this type of bacon & hope you, dear foodies, do, too.
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Shiitake Shu-mai (Japanese pork-based-mushroom-infused dimsum)

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Even your 3-year old kid can make this type of recipe…dimsum & dumpling.
It’s the easiest in the world as long as you don’t concoct thus “blind-foldedly” add anything
…repeat anything, that goes into your mind. If you do-it’s tragedy.
Go ahead with your usual ground pork. Just add the simplest ingredients: salt, sugar, MSG (optional),
ground black pepper, ground carrots, ground turnips (optional) and sesame oil.
Instead of plain tap water, add “pre-cut shiitake mushroom” into it. Soak for 30 minutes.
Add in ALL ingredients plus the mushroom water with cut mushrooms.
Exercise your arm and grip. Give it a big tumbling and tossing.
Using “molo”  or “siomai” or “wanton” (though this type is a bit thick) wrapper form as you would like them to look.
Over boiling water, steam for 5 minutes. Done.
For the best of heaven, enjoy with soy sauce-fried garlic-fried chili pepper-“calamansi” dip.

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Our way of wood smoking  bar sausages for hours.

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 The Vigan Longaniza or “bar sausages” we produce
utilize hog casings from either USA or Netherlands and undergo
2-3 hours of hickory wood smoking to elicit that sensational burnt aroma,
firmer texture and taste rounded-ness.