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Pancetta is in the cure and jarred 'nduja is chopped, mixed, and jarred. Cooling so I can oubliette it.
My dad will be over in a few hours so we can take him out for a belated birthday dinner. It should be nice.

Relaxing, if busy and productive, weekend so far.

Testing, one, two...

Not for the first time, I was inspired by ken_albala - specifically, this post. So I tried something along the same lines, and this post is partly an attempt to track what I did when I break this out in three months. (If all goes well, of course.)

I made two batches of one pound each so I could try different flavors. I planned to use wide-mouth pint jars, but reconsidered when I mixed everything together and went with the less-easily-filled 1.5 pint jars. Turns out the pint jars would have been fine; oh well.

Since Ken's recipes are conceptual rather than numeric, here are my adaptations in progress.
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What I'm reading: Simon Green, A Hard Day's Knight