Frisee Aux Lardons

This is one of my favorite things to get when eating out at a nice neighborhood bistro.

Look, it might be a salad, but there is nothing light or delicate about this dish. Look at those chunks of bacon for god sakes.

Mmmm... bacon. In French gastro-speak the term lardons means any large piece of cooked, crispy bacon. In my own gastro-speak is means delicious.

Sunday Brunch: Dim Sum BBQ Pork "Bao" Buns

So, I made that pork shoulder the other day. Wow, what a lot of meat! I was in a serious crisis of what to do with the left-overs. And, after a failed attempt to go out to a brunch of dim sum in Sunset Park with a bunch of friends, I got to thinking. Maybe I could replicate the best part of dim sum: those fluffy, sweet steamed BBQ bao buns.