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Terry Boon @terryboon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Planning a dinner, reminded of the old saying on clocks & time - as I found a man with one recipe book may know how to roast pork belly, but a man with two may never be sure. (High heat first for the crackling, then low for the rest? Or the other way round? Or low heat all the way for *5 hours*?)

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Terry Boon @terryboon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

(In case anyone surprisingly reads my posts for cooking advice, I picked the "high heat first, then turn it down" approach to roast the pork belly, & that - & rubbing the crackling with crushed fennel seeds along with the salt - did the trick. But other methods might have done well too, of course!)

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Terry Boon @terryboon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

For roast potatoes, most of the literature encourages only brief parboiling. But I took inspiration from @ishankolhatkar.com (www.ishankolhatkar.com/food/roastpo...), boiling them until nearly falling apart, before drying and adding to *hot* oil - for a good result, worth trying again!

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My love of roast potatoes & how to make them, my way — Ishan Kolhatkar

I love roast potatotes. Really, I love them. In my spare time I write them poetry and sometimes catch myself drawing a heart with IK 4 RP. Okay, so that’s something of an exaggeration (I don’t draw he...

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