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Christmas Beef Bacon

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At last year’s show, I bought some beef belly/navel from Antelope Creek Wagyu Ranch, knowing full well I was going to make bacon with it. This Christmas beef bacon was just one very tasty result of this project. It’s like a Christmas-flavored smoky steak, only bacon! Christmas beef bacon recipe Print Recipe This Christmas, create your own beef bacon! CourseBACON. …

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Masker’s Yule Hog, Part 1: Home-Cured Christmas Bacon

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Apparently, two dozen gingerbread strippers and a bottle of cheap scotch wasn’t enough to buy Santa’s forgiveness last year. He did not provide the Big Green Egg I’d requested despite my generous bribe. I found plenty of fuel for an Egg in my stocking, though. This year I’m upping the ante. No jolly old elf can resist three different types of Christmas pork waiting on a plate. While I’m at it, I’ll share the recipes as I go along. If it works, maybe you can buy your naughty self into his good graces too. Christmas bacon seems like a good lead-in. Here’s how I’m going about it.