Want to make something different? This salami might be right up your alley. Spanish Sobrasada. This spreadable salami is like chorizo on steroids. Great flavor, incredible texture, and very versatile!! Sobrasada hails from the Balearic Islands of Spain and is fast becoming one of my favorite salami. Not because it’s a very cool salami to …
A Hunter’s Sausage. Landjäger is an amazing piece of charcuterie. It’s delicious, extremely portable, and keeps very well. In this recipe we will be cold smoking for about 8 hours using Bella’s Cold Smoke Generator by Smokin-it. This cold smoker can generate up to 10 hours of true cold smoke which will be perfect for …
Welcome to the Salami Starter Culture Series. Today we are talking about the culture T-SPX. This starter culture is used in fermented sausages to acidify the salami and enhance it’s aroma, color, flavor, and texture. T-SPX is considered slow fermenting culture and the combination of bacteria used in this starter culture will produce a mild …
Time for another salami recipe. This week’s recipe is no ordinary salami though, it’s Soppressata di Calabria. So what makes this air cured sausage so special. Well for starters it’s not cylindrical like most salami. It’s oblong. This shape comes from the act of pressing the salami during the initial stages of processing and fermenting. …
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Want to make something different. This might be the exact thing you are looking for. Nduja is a spicy, smoky, spreadable salami that packs such incredible and intense flavor in every bite. So what is nduja? Nduja (pronounced “en-DOO-ya”) originated in Italy and is possibly one of the most well known pieces of charcuterie to …
Sometimes the weirdest ideas come to me when I’m in my laboratory (kitchen). This week I was thinking about how amazing Korean KimChi tastes. It’s unique tangy, funky, fermented experience is like a taste bud’s dream come true. So complex in it’s flavors, KimChi ticks all the boxes for me. With that same thought process …
