Oh wow, this thread is awesome! *subscribes*
I'm going to add a recipe, just because I can. It looks long, but that's just me being overly detailed - it's exceedingly simple!
Pork Neck
Difficulty: heart
Appliances: oven, fridge for storage
Ingredients:
One pork neck (they're normally 1.6-2kg, in one big chunk)
5-6 cloves of garlic (papery skin removed, of course...)
One small carrot
Salt
Pepper (optional)
First, take a small bowl (and I mean small! No bigger than your two cupped hands, really). Chop up the garlic lengthwise, each clove into about 4-6 pieces, and chop up the carrot into strips about 6cm long and 0.5x0.5cm in cross section. (No need to be exact, they just have to be relatively sturdy) Put these chopped garlic and carrot strips into the bowl, cover with a teaspoon of salt, mix around, leave.
Take your nice big hunk of pork neck and make holes in it with a small, thin knife every 5-6cm randomly, then stick your finger into each hole to widen them up a bit. Then, grab your bowl with the garlic and carrot, and stuff 2-3 sticks of each into each hole you've made. It's easier to put in the garlic first, then stuff it in further with the carrot.
You should be left with some garlic and carrot pieces left over in the bowl, along with salt mixed with the vegie juices. Place half the garlic and carrot in the bottom of a big oven-safe dish, plonk your pork neck on top, spread the rest of the garlic/carrot/salty juices from the bowl over the top of the pork neck. You can rub more salt into it if you want to, and add pepper too.
Cover the dish (either with a lid if it has one, or with foil - make the foil go all the way around the edges, with a ditch in the foil inside the dish edges so any moisture stays inside), stick into the oven, turn the oven on to 180C, leave it to do its thing for about 2.5 hours.
This is great in slices either hot with anything, cold with anything, cold slices in sandwiches... you name it. It's great because with minimal effort, you make this huge hunk which lasts you at least a few days for anything you want to do with it. biggrin
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