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What’s For Dinner: Pork Rillettes

Tonight we are having pork rillettes:  chunks of pork, slow cooked in lard, seasoned, and shredded.  They are divine!

The recipe I am using is an adaptation of one found in my favorite cookbook, The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.   In Hugh’s recipe, he uses 1lb of pork shoulder and 1lb of pork belly; however I am using a 3 pound pork shoulder and no belly.  Continue reading