Some Porchetta and a strange ice cream

[Jeremy Calow]

G'day folks, its been a hot minute since I was last here sharing a cook. Couple of weeks back I had the urge to do something and grabbed a couple of small skin on pork bellies to do a couple of porchettas for a few friends.

I mixed up a double batch of chorizo and fried that off, and got to dicing up some apples and fennel and garlic.

Butterflying up the pork bellies I got to adding the internals before trussing them up.

Dusted them up and dropped them off on the 18.5 for a few hours before tossing them in the oven with a broil to crisp up the skin a bit more

Went with some potato salad, and a jalapeno mac n cheese that apparently I neglected to photograph in my hurry to eat.. such is life. But I did manage to photograph the desert... Which was a dark chocolate and satay sauce Ice Cream... because, I could I guess hehe..

Mixed up a quick peanut satay sauce, and then made an extra dark chocolate custard based ice cream, and after a run in the maker I added ribbons of the satay sauce throughout. I gotta say it was a surprise hit. The pungent salty umami of the satay sauce worked really well with the under sweet dark chocolate ice cream. So there was that!

 

[Randy]

I'd be in a hurry to eat also

 

[JKalchik]

Oh, wow. That ice cream sounds positively delicious.

 

[Jeremy Calow]

Oh, wow. That ice cream sounds positively delicious.

It was one of those things that started as a quirky thought in my head and ended up as a surprisingly good idea.. I made up some ginger molasses cookies and made some ice cream sandwiches with it... Now there was a spark of pure genius I gotta say..

 

[Barb D]

All I can say is WOW!!

 

[Tim Campbell]

Man, what a great cook! Gotta be the most unique ice cream I've seen.

 

[JKalchik]

Man, what a great cook! Gotta be the most unique ice cream I've seen.

The Japanese are gonna say hold my sake. Wait until you try red bean or green tea ice cream.

 

[Jeremy Calow]

The Japanese are gonna say hold my sake. Wait until you try red bean or green tea ice cream.

You’re definitely not wrong there, but it’s not “normal” for over here that’s for sure! I’m also a big fan of red bean and mung bean bubble tea so now you have me thinking!!