In honor of Josh's Birthday and a long time dream in the making, we hosted the 1st Annual BaconFest at our house last weekend. It was a celebration of everything bacon or pork, as well as a good excuse to get all our friends together for a fall day of smoking and BBQing. Josh and I got a little overwhelmed in the preparation phase since we took on preparing somewhere around 40lbs of meat all by ourselves and in many different ways, but after 3 days of hard work and preparation, the party was a huge success! So much great pork, bite after bite was totally mouth watering and delicious. Yay BaconFest! Hope you can all join us again next year...
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| Pork Chili, made with pork that had been brined for 24 hours in a maple brine. |
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| Homemade Sausages: half were Wild Boar and Apple, half were Pork Shoulder. |
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| Sausages were smoked, BBQ'd, and dipped in Silver Spring Mustard. |
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| Pork Loin stuffed with Bacon and Mushrooms (courtesy of Jesse Shirley). |
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| Wild Boar Leg, shot and slaughtered by Sarah Jones, soaked in a Pepper Ale brine, and smoked. |
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| Wild Boar Tenderloin, also soaked in a Pepper Ale brine and smoked. |
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| Bacon-wrapped corn and Wild Boar Shoulder. |
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| Homemade Bacon Garlic Bread. |
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| Bacon Maple Beer (courtesy of Megan Shirley). |
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| 15 lb Pork Shoulder, soaked in a Honey Chili Brine and smoked for 8+ hours...so juicy and tender! |
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| More Pork Shoulder. (Missing from photos: Pork Ribs and Wild Boar Ribs. These were eaten up way too fast!) |
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| Watermelon, Arugula, and Feta Salad (no, its not pork, but we had to have something green!) |
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| Maple Bacon Ice Cream |
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| Day 2 of a week of leftover Bacon Festivities, Josh concocted this delicious little bit of mouth watering yumminess: Brown Sugar toasted Bacon Bread topped with Maple Bacon Ice Cream, Farmers Market Peaches and Plums and Caramel Sauce!! |
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| A room full of full, happy BaconFesters! |
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| Heather, Ryan, Nancy, and Josh stuffing their faces with Bacon! |
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