Grilled Liempo (Pork Belly)

We made a quickie run to pick up some boxes at the local market yesterday and we were able to score some sliced pork belly. It's been a while since we had grilled pork belly so it was a great find. 

Unfortunately, it is currently drizzling outside so we don't actually have ourdoor barbeque weather so we're grilling this indoors. We're not complaining because the rain is helping keep the pollen count in the air down, thus alleviating our allergies. Smelling like grilled liempo the rest of the day seems like a small price to pay anyway.

One of the small consolations that we have when we grill is seeing the amount of fat drippings collected from the meat. Today, we grilled 3 lbs worth of pork belly, enough for a few meals, and we got around 11oz worth of drippings.

Scary, no ?

Creamy Pesto Pasta

Seems like these days, "recycled leftovers" has been a recurring dinner theme at home. Hence, we've been consuming a lot of eggs lately since we almost always resort to making omelettes with various food scraps.

Dinner tonight wasn't so bad. I decided to mix some light cream with the left over pesto sauce (purchased fresh pesto sauce from Costco during the lenten season, but we found it too strong as is). We mixed in the chicken meat from Swe-cha's chicken stock and topped the whole thing with bacon. All these on top of whole-wheat pasta.

Verdict: not bad.