I've got a few days off this week, and I am owed a handful of significant portions of remuneration. To celebrate, I'm going to marinade a lump of pork belly for #PelletGrill #smoked banh mi meat.

I've been out in the garden to see which produce is ready to be picked. Turns out some of the blood plums on one of the trees are squishy-ripe, so I picked a bunch of those, as a colourful, sweet basis for my #BBQPork marinade. It goes a little something like this:

✅ 6 ripe blood plums (pitted)
✅ ½ fermented lime (4 chunks)
✅ 2 Tbsp fish sauce
✅ 6 cloves fermented garlic (crushed)
✅ 3 dried, fermented blood plums (chopped)
✅ 1 tsp chilli flakes
✅ 1 tsp Chinese five spice

Updates to follow...

#fermenting #GardeningAU #GrowYourOwn #PelletGrill

I ended up getting a lump of pork scotch (neck muscles?) because it was cheap, and it's what they had in stock. I thinned about ½ a cup of the marinade with about another ~¼ cup of fish sauce, and used the resultant liquid to inject into the meat. I've placed the lot into a sealed container, which is in the fridge.

Now we wait...

#MeatToots #PelletGrill

Seven days later, and Kid #1 & a friend are coming around for dinner tonight. I popped the pork in the #PelletGrill, and set the thermostat to 135C. That was at 1100hrs this morning. 6-ish hours later, this is how it looks: