The joys of smoked bacon

Sitting on the stove at the moment is a pot with 450grams (say 1lb) of smoked bacon, twenty pigs trotters, a couple of onions, carrots, bay leaves, parsley, water.  Simmer for three hours.

I am going to pick apart the meat, stir in some caremalized onion, make a sausage and serve with more caremalized onion and some chives if I can find them...

What to do with the liquor... mix with stock, make ox tail risotto...

Unctious I guess...

I promise to let you know how it goes.

J