Most British recipes for Boston baked beans just use a piece of pork belly, but we think it needs some salted or smoked meat to counteract the sweetness, so we include bacon or pancetta.
Bacon even makes an appearance on the whiskey menu. Two starters from our recent visit were pork-centric. Pork belly is smoked, braised in bourbon and finally pan-seared before being topped with a ...
And nothing hits that sweet spot for Niles like the whole pork belly at Costco ... like a no brainer if you own a smoker and are thinking of making your own bacon or a bacon-like smoked pork ...