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Slow-Roasted Pork Belly with Apple & Cider

Written by Michele Lyons on August 7, 2025. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Tender, melt-in-your-mouth pork belly meets sweet apples, aromatic herbs, and dry cider, all finished with irresistible golden crackling. This dish is the ultimate comfort food and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for Sunday roasts or special gatherings. To get that super crispy crackling, we recommend preparing your pork...

The Perfect Pork Roast

Written by Michele Lyons on April 27, 2022. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

How to Make Perfect Pork Crackling Choose a piece of pork with a generous covering of fat and rind. Remove pork from Cryovac packaging the day/ night before you intend to cook it and absorb any moisture on the rind with paper towel. Wrap in a tea towel and leave in the fridge. Remove from the fridge and allow the meat...

Pork Spare Rib Soup

Written by Michele Lyons on June 19, 2018. Posted in Cooking Tips, Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

One of our market customers from Narrabeen gave me this pork spare rib soup recipe and insisted I try it. She asked me two weeks in a row before I got around to it. Well worth it as this was super nourishing and delicious. I even ate it for breakfast one morning. Ingredients: 1kg Pasture Fed Pork Spare Ribs, cut...

Salt Roast Pork with Radicchio & Fennel Salad

Written by Alison Clinch on September 1, 2016. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. Leave a Comment

Ingredients 1kg pork belly olive oil and sea salt 3 green apples, halved 2 baby fennel bulbs, sliced finely 1 small radicchio lettuce, leaves separated 1 baby cos lettuce, leaves separated 2 handfuls of rocket leaves Salad Dressing: 1/3 cup fresh orange juice 1 tsp Dijon mustard 2-3 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil Sea...

Recipe: Slow Roasted Pomegranate Pork Belly

Written by Alison Clinch on May 30, 2016. Posted in Free Range Pasture Fed Pork, Recipes. 7 Comments

Serves: 4 Adults This has got to be one of the best recipes I’ve ever cooked. The long cooking time was so worth it! The preparation time is minimal and the oven does most of the work. Cheers, Alison Ingredients: 1kg Pasture Fed Pork Belly 8 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped 3 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked 2...

Slow Cooking Guide

Written by Alison Clinch on May 27, 2014. Posted in Cooking Tips, Newsletter. Leave a Comment

Whilst recently browsing some old articles on the SMH Good Living website we found a great article on slow cooking by renowned Sydney Restauranter and chef, Stefano ‘Steve’ Manfredi… In slow cooking the idea is to to break down the connective tissue in meat and turn the collagen into gelatin, rendering...

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Slow-Roasted Pork Belly with Apple & Cider

The Perfect Pork Roast

Pork Spare Rib Soup

Salt Roast Pork with Radicchio & Fennel Salad

Recipe: Slow Roasted Pomegranate Pork Belly

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