Slow Cooked Cuban Pork

We spent the winter working on this recipe and I couldn't get it right until this spring!I'm so excited so share it with you! The lunar new year always brings a few tangerines into our lives and we eat very little fruit so they sit around for a long time. This year I decided to use them in our cooking to dilute the sugar rush a little bit. This is a simple dish that just needs the right amount of cooking time to make it fall apart delicious, with a citrusy tang.

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Fall Vegetable Soup

We laughingly call this vegetable soup because it it full of veggies, but don't make the mistake of thinking it won't be a satisfying meal! If you make the broth with beef ribs, marrow bones and knuckles it will be meaty and full of luscious collagen and fat. Make sure to make a big pot of soup so that you have enough for another meal or two.

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Broth of Grilled Lamb Bones

Although this broth can be made with raw lamb bones or lamb bones roasted in the oven until browned, I have been making this with smokey lamb bones grilled. We have a habit of grilling as much as possible and when the coals are finishing to ash, I have been throwing the bones on the grill to smoke them for soup making. Sublime!

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Japanese Pork Broth Recipe

This year I have been grilling my pork bones before making this broth, but it is delicious with fresh (often frozen) bones as well. Pork fat is rich in vitamin D and has, like olive oil 10% of the omega-6 fatty acid. Just make sure you are getting the pasture raised pork bones and all that lovely fat is power food!!

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