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My friends Don Peppers and Martha Rogers just wrote a book called Extreme Trust: Honesty As a Competitive Advantage. The ideas inside it are going to change your life. Their basic premise is that:
Lots of traditional, widely accepted, and perfectly legal business practices just can't be trusted by customers, and will soon become extinct, driven to dust by rising levels of transparency.
By transparency, they mean that, for example, every interaction through a digital device leaves a record that can later be searched, cross-referenced, duplicated and potentially shared.
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Like it or not, our lives are being documented and archived, which leaves less and less room for the old-fashioned ways of fudging the truth.
For example, there are businesses that charge you, say, $10 a month for a service. Being busy, you might forget about the service, stop using it entirely, and still get charged $10 a month for years on end. Don and Martha say that's not right, that companies can see when you stop using a service and they have a self-interest in pointing this out to you.
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Let's consider how this might apply to your life. If you're a student, you might "forget" to mention a bad grade to your parents, unless they specifically ask, "How did you do on your geography test of April 8?" But with online tools such as Blackboard prevalent, and your friends and your friends' parents exchanging stories online, the odds are pretty high you will eventually convince your parents that you aren't trustworthy.
Now imagine that you have a job and your employer decides to implement a quantified approach to your office, meaning that your supervisors now track how long you leave the building at lunch, how many times you say something positive versus negative in meetings, how many suggestions you make each year for improving workflow, and 29 other metrics.
Here's the problem: Most of us don't look so good when we quantify our lives. We exercise less than we think, and eat more. We spend more time thinking about work than working hard. We probably have a higher opinion of ourselves than is warranted.
My intention isn't to depress you. To the contrary, I want to motivate you to take Don and Martha's advice to heart. Do things right. Do the right thing. Proactively.
No matter how closely your company starts to quantify everything you do, you will be ahead of the pack. Why? Because most people aren't going to realize that extreme truth has become the new normal until it is too late.
Near the end of their book, the authors include this passage:
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They're writing about companies, but if you substitute "our lives" for the word "business," you get the idea.
This weekend, we had some friends over and I listened as my wife recalled some of the decisions we made 10 or 12 years ago: why we decided to move, how we found our new house, etc. On nearly every subject, I thought: That's not what actually happened.
Human beings are used to living with perceptions of facts, not facts themselves. But in the coming months and years, that's all going to change. Get ready for extreme truth, because it's coming fast.
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By Emma Gilchrist • Friday, January 24, 2014 - 08:58
A new study from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) focuses on a greenhouse gas impact of the Keystone XL pipeline that hasn't received much attention: how the pipeline could affect the global oil market by increasing supply, decreasing prices and therefore driving up global oil consumption.
Even if those effects are small in global terms, they could be significant in relationship to Keystone XL and U.S. climate policy, argue Peter Erickson and Michael Lazarus, senior scientists in SEI's U.S. Center, in a new paper, Greenhouse gas emissions implications of the Keystone XL pipeline.
"The more suppliers there are in the market for oil, the more they compete and that drives down prices for consumers," Erickson said.
Climate policy and analysis often focuses on energy production and consumption, but rarely considers how energy infrastructure might shape energy use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
The Keystone XL pipeline proposal to connect Canadian tar sands production with the Gulf of Mexico's refineries and ports have brought these questions to light. U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will only approve Keystone XL if it "does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."
To gauge the pipeline's potential impact, Erickson and Lazarus built a supply-and-demand model using publicly available supply curves and peer-reviewed demand elasticities (the extent to which changes in oil consumption respond to changes in oil prices).
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For the last two cases, the researchers found the pipeline's impact on global oil prices, though modest (less than one percent), would be enough to increase global oil consumption by hundreds of thousands of barrels per day.
"The cheaper oil and fuels are, the more people will consume them," Erickson said. "The cheaper it is, the more people drive. The more expensive it is, the less people drive. In economic terms, that's called an elasticity of demand."
The scientists looked at these variations in demand over the longer term.
"People don't tend to, on a day-to-day basis, pay a lot of attention to gas prices in terms of how much they drive," Erickson said. "But over time, if prices go up, people make bigger decisions about the type of vehicle they'll buy or where they're going to live."
What they found was that if none of the oil would otherwise reach the market, Keystone XL could increase global oil use by as much as 510,000 barrels per day, or 62 per cent of Keystone XL capacity. Including those price effects, the pipeline's annual emissions impact would be 93 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, four to five times greater than the greenhouse gas implications of simply displacing average crude imported into the U.S. with tar sands crude.
"While the State Department has considered how Keystone might affect overall levels of Canadian oil sands production, it is not clear if and how they considered how such increases in production would affect global consumption — an effect we found could be significant," Erickson said. "This is an important gap that needs to be addressed if President Obama is to make a fully informed decision about the pipeline."
The GHG implications of Keystone XL can also be looked at in the context of the U.S. pledge to reduce emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, Lazarus said.
"The potential impact on global GHG emissions could be as high as 1–2% of current U.S. emissions," he said, "and greater than the emission reductions that several proposed federal climate mitigation policies could achieve in 2020, such as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency performance standards on industrial boilers, cement kilns and petroleum refineries."
The authors conclude by noting that the answer to the question of whether Keystone XL will "significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution" is likely to hinge upon how much the pipeline increases the global oil supply, and through its price effects, global oil consumption.
Some have argued that if Keystone XL is not built, then other modes, particularly rail, would be used to transport an equivalent amount of oil. However, there is far more prospective Canadian tar sands production (4.5 million barrels per day) than the 830,000 barrels per day that Keystone XL can carry, so rail routes may be needed and used whether or not the pipeline is built, Erickson said.
Additionally, Brian Ferguson, CEO of major oilsands producer Cenovus, was quoted this week as saying: "If there were no more pipeline expansions I would have to slow down."
So, whichever way you slice it, Keystone XL will have a significant climate impact —by enabling more development of Alberta's oil industry, but also by increasing the global oil supply and consumption.
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Michael Berndtson replied on Permalink
uff da
Swedes have done more to damage popular music than Canadian heavy oil could ever do to damage the environment. Here's what I think of my squareheaded scandihoovian relative's work:
1) Alberta is already producing/shipping about diluted bitumen at 1.5 million barrels per day and syncrude at about 800,000 barrels per day as of 2012. This is based on about 1 million barrels per day raw oil sands (the volume increase due to processing and dilution). The most recent production number can be found here:
2) Diluted bitumen is flowing nicely to Illinois and once the Flanagan pipeline is completed this year about an additional 600,000 bpd will flow to the Gulf Coast via Cushing, OK. There's plenty of cross boarder pipeline capacity even without the northern half of Keystone XL until 2019. Illinois/Indiana refineries are already refining tar sands diluted bitumen and soon will be able to process more than 500,000 bbd just at a handful of refineres in those states alone. A nice summary is presented by Congressional Research Services on this whole mess here:
3) If it all stays within US and Canada - then Venezuela will ship its heavy crude to Sweden and Europe - which has an equally troubling carbon footprint.
4) Environmental(ism) is playing catch up at best and pulling guard at worst (football analogy: a pulling guard gets out in front of a runner sweeping left or right). For example, oil and gas does what it does - the environmental blogs writes about it - we knash our teeth - then read yet another well written and informative article. The perfect example is the Pulitzer Prize winning piece of journalism by Inside Climate News (Bloomberg's personal blog I think, maybe not) on the diluted bitumen spill in Michigan. According to the article "we never heard of it." I believe many did. The young spunky j school grad didn't, but that doesn't mean all of us never did. Especially those in the hazmat emergency response business.
Heres' my point…tar sands or diluted bitumen or heavy oil is and has been flowing like crazy. It will increase if Keystone is built. There is and will continue to be workarounds, i.e. alternative pipelines and rail.
If environmentalist want to get in front of the issue instead of reporting on yet another fossil fuel production increase, then focus on the source. The transition from mining to in situ extraction of tar sands could really shut it down (assuming Canada even cares). Mining production is flattening out and will begin to decrease. The future production of tar sands will be mostly in situ extraction - which given the present technology - is a freaking mess - and expensive.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
In Situ is already 80% of all
In Situ is already 80% of all tar sands extraction, there is no transition. Mining operations currently extract more bbl/d per site than in situ sites do and account for a higher proportion of total barrels,. In situ is less ecologically destructive than mining, though it does use an enormous amount of water, at least at start up (after which 99% of the water used is recycled).
Here's my point. By denying expansion of pipelines, Canada could be a leader in the reduction of GHG, it could also get more on the world market for its oil if production (i.e. supply) were slowed.
AnOilMan replied on Permalink
I don't think so...
I don't think that the carbon footprint of the tar sands is the issue specifically. I think its concern over global warming. The Tar Sands, and Keystone XL are just the lighting rods.
Reducing Green House gasses, is a disaster. The target is zero emissions. Michael is also right in that oil and gas will just route around the the problem.
Worse still oil and gas isn't profitable. Its so heavily subsidized its not funny. Tankers only carry $75 million in insurance. That means the people of Canada has to pay cash out of pocket for a clean up. This particular subsidy needs to end.
As for the so called Haitus there has been a lot of work on that subject. Cowton and Way are are considered to be on the fore front of that. Specifically, they are analyzing Geospatial gaps in our surface thermometers.
Spots that aren't well measured today are deep arctic and deep desert. These are also spots that are suffering the most heating from cliamte change. Take Canada as an example, we're 3C hotter.
On top of that Climate Change is now costing Canada jobs. Pine Beetles are trashing BC and expected to trash northern arctic forests. This has force closures mills as well as resulting in the expenditure of hundreds of millions on efforts to prevent or contain the outbreak. FYI, The beetles had something like anti freeze in their blood, you need like 2 weeks of -40C to kill them and halt the spread. This hasn't happened for a long long time.
Michael Berndtson replied on Permalink
oil man is correct, I believe
Based on total recoverable oil sands, it has been reported that roughly 80 percent will have to be mined in situ. Here's the latest breakdown on surface to in situ mining:
Insitu extraction (primary and other, i.e. thermal assist) = 478,483 bbd (34%)
Surface mine: 929,240 bbd (66%)
based on a total of 1,407,723 bbd
The interested take away from the macro graph is the flat lining of surface mining output and continual increase in in situ extraction. In 2008 19 percent of the total daily production was 19 percent in situ and 81 percent mined. The total production in the four years increased around 5 percent from 886,000 to 929,240 bbd.
I'm assuming the transition to in situ extraction is as important as takeaway issues like pipeline and rail.
an Oilman and Peter Moss,
What's going on with in situ electric resistance heating for oil sands? ET Energy piloted this in situ extraction method recently at one of the fields. This may be less sloppy than steam thermal, no?
AnOilMan replied on Permalink
That's more a question for Peter.
There are many alternate technologies for extraction. Usually they require very specific conditions to work.
I'd be curious to know how efficient that is. First we burn 60% coal, 40% natural gas (?) in Alberta for electricity. Then you'd have losses in the actual heating. I also assume you'll need to inject something downthere to cause it to flow out.
As always they have removed coal from their emmissions estimates. :-)
Aaaand current natural gas is equivalent to coal, but I bet they removed losses from their estimates. (I supose it would be OK to use the same estimate for comparison purposes, but they are wrong.)
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
In Situ
Sorry Michael, I'm not familiar with that extraction method. It looks interesting though. We did a SAGD plant near the McKay River last year for a junior client. It was designed as a 12,000 bbl facility, but it's only pulling 1,800 bbl because they have since found out they have to use a lot more water than anticipated. That's the problem with in situ, it's a relatively young technology and the science behind things like how much water will be needed at any given reserve is fairly inexact. And the juniors are having a harder time getting in the in situ game due to changes in the application process. It's getting too costly for them, so the trend is going to be for larger established companies doing larger SAGD projects (i.e. > 40,000 bbl/d). As you said, mining is not growing and has peaked. I shudder to think what the landscape is going to look like after projects like Kearl are finished.
I think the only hope we have of getting out of this mess is to slow things down, deny expansion of pipelines and rail, begin undoing the subsidies and collect carbon taxes instead, and ramp up renewables. Whether any of these actually happens or not I don't know.
Michael Berndtson replied on Permalink
Nuke/in situ?????
I've been reading about plans to bring nuclear power up to Alberta to generate low carbon electricity. Steam assisted extraction and gravity drainage in situ techniques seem to be the state of the art for the time being. If this were to happen, I was wondering if in situ electric resistance heating (ERH) was moving forward. ET Energy seems to be well into the pilot program at Poplar Creek (somewhere up there).
In situ ERH was tested as a tertiary oil recovery technology back in the 70s. Then moved over to environmental. US DOE was testing ERH for in situ vitrification of nuclear waste impacted soil at Hanford, Washington. In situ vitrification didn't go very far into commercial use. Using the same technology essentially, Hanford then reduced the applied current (energy input) and developed ERH for soil and groundwater remediation. Where it has been successful for about 20 years. Now the technology may go full circle and be used for oil extraction. Don't know. Something anything needs to be done. At the rate the planet is being heated, Canada will just have to build a pipeline directly north to the Arctic Ocean (that is not a serious comment).
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
No Nukes in Near Future
There have been rumblings to bring nuclear power to Alberta for decades. The first I heard about it was in the late 1980s. But nuclear power isn't going to be part of Alberta's energy grid or even as a supplier to industry anytime soon. Fukushima and any new fresh disasters have and will make sure of that. Besides, it's just way too expensive and would requie massive government investment, something not likely with current provincial deficits. Finally, just to get one approved and then built, you're looking at a ten year window.
AnOilMan replied on Permalink
Like Oil and Gas...
No nuclear power plant has ever made a profit without heavy heavy subsidy. Like Oil and Gas, Nuclear Energy is un-insured. (Can you imagine what insurance would cost? At all? Fukashima will cost $150 billion to clean up!)
What would happen if there was a melt down at the reactor? (A freak 1000 year flood?) This would go beyond blowing its top… it would also pollute all of Canada's energy reserves.
One of things I heard them thinking of was using steam from the nuclear plants for In Situ extraction.
The funny thing is that they haven't considered going solar. 20 cents per kwh installed small scale. Furthermore the tar sands were profitable at $35 a barrel.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Pipeline to the Beaufort Sea
Michael Berndtson said:
"Canada will just have to build a pipeline directly north to the Arctic Ocean (that is not a serious comment)".
I'm afraid that is being taken seriously by the Alberta Government:
"Most recently, the government has hired Canatec Associates International Ltd., a Calgary consultant experienced in northern development, to do some research on the potential for an oil pipeline from the central Mackenzie Valley to a tidewater at Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., on the Beaufort Sea, Ken Hughes said."


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like not mind the dailies, but then my first three weeks of Mists coincided with a nightmare at my real life job. I was grateful to lose myself in dailies here and there, whenever I could spare a few hours.)
You and me, we're going to play a little game called Can Ophelie churn out an entire MoP Paladin healing guide (which will undoubtedly be outdated before it is even finished) before flying off to Hawaii? I predict a lot of excitement and suspense. Ok, not really, but holy pally talk is always a good time.
Lighthearted comments aside, I've been meaning to write this for awhile, as I've been telling the many people who've asked for my advice. And you know that when people are resorting to asking an absent blogger who always was a little behind on the news, info the holy paladin world must indeed be scarce.
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I'm writing the posts in the order I would want to receive the information, if I were a newly 90 pally looking to get started with 5s. To my greatest satisfaction, this order also tends to coincide with the order that other pallies ask me questions in. Therefore we've got:
– Stats (with gems, enchants and reforging)
– Talents and Glyphs
– Basic healing (base spells)
– Intermediate healing (cooldown useage)
– Advanced healing (tricks and techniques)
This is the post on stats.
How Will I Know if My Stats Really Love Me?
This is the general consensus on holy paladin stats in MoP:
Spirit > Intellect > Mastery > Haste > Critical Strike
I say general consensus because healing is all about adapting to new situations, and because you'll always find that one player who maxes out the least favoured spec and just rocks every fight that comes along. But, as my writing teachers always told me, make sure you master the ground rules before breaking them.
Lets have a closer look at these stats.
Spirit – We love you now
With our newly fixed mana pools and Intellect no longer affecting spell regen, your ol'reliable pal is now Spirit. Love it, stack it, show it off.
Especially at first, you'll want to collect as much Spirit as you can. Try to pick up gear with Spirit on it, if you fail, reforge to Spirit. Enchant for Spirit when available, gem for Spirit.
As you gear up and feel less mana-starved, you can relax a little (but not much) and do things like gem for socket bonuses. But even at that, while a lot of pallies gem for socket bonuses, I still come across some high end holy paladins who ignore socket bonuses and go pure Spirit.
Intellect is your strongest throughput stat. It'll always be on your gear, so don't let it keep you up at night.
I wouldn't gem for pure Intellect, but if you do want to match a red socket bonus, a Purified stone (Intellect and Spirit) is pretty sexy.
There's also some debate between Intellect food/flasks and Spirit food/flasks. I've tried both and didn't notice much of a difference, but I do tend to prefer the Intellect stuff because, as Derevka details brilliantly here, point-per-point, Intellect costs more than Spirit, and thus 300 Intellect is much harder to acquire via gear than 300 Spirit. (Derevka explains it very well, so if you want to know more, I highly recommend his post.)
Mastery? But my Heals Are Taking Too Long!
Mastery has pretty much established its reign as our current top secondary stat. It's been tried and tested and now all the cool kids are reforging to Mastery.
But I haven't seen a whole lot of math backing this up (Getsu does do a very good job on his guide at MMO-Champion though), and I'm a translator, not a theorycrafter.
What our Mastery does (just in case you're a new paladin) is put an absorb shield on your target whenever you heal them. Mastery affects the percentage (%) of the heal that becomes the shield and the shields do stack. There is a maximum strength the shield can reach, however, that seems to be dependent on Intellect (I experimented with some reforging and gear removing). Other than pre-shielding before a pull, though, it's unlikely you'll max out your Mastery shields. The shield is called Illuminated Healing, if you're looking to track it, or find it on logs.
The nice things with Mastery are that it's mana friendly, makes our overheals worthwhile (as a Divine Light-happy pally I get a lot of overheal) and it allows for a lot of strategic healing.
The complaint I hear most often about choosing Mastery over Haste is that it feels like spells take forever.
This actually gets a lot better as your gear level increases and Haste finds its way to you, but until then, unless you're a highly competitive player, it's totally viable to follow a "Haste until comfortable, then Mastery" rule. (I'll admit I personally have a lot of trouble reforging away from Haste.)
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Head: None! Yay!
Shoulders: Greater Crane Wing Inscription (Crane Wing Inscription is the cheap alternative, but usually the inscriptions aren't expensive. Scribes can use Secret Crane Wing Inscription)
Cloak: Enchant Cloak – Superior Intellect
Chest: Enchant Chest – Mighty Spirit (Glorious Stats can work too but I prefer Spirit)
Wrists: Enchant Bracer – Super Intellect (Mastery works too, if you're cheap.)
Gloves: Enchant Gloves – Superior Mastery (Greater Haste is an alternative if you can't give up Haste.)
Belt: Living Steel Belt Buckle
Pants: Greater Pearlescent Spellthread (Cheap alternative: Pearlescent Spellthread)
Boots: Enchant Boots – Pandaren's Step (Again, Greater Haste if you're stuck on Haste.)
Main Hand: Enchant Weapon – Jade Spirit (Cheap alternative: Windsong)
Off Hand: Enchant Off-Hand – Major Intellect
Sparkling (Spirit) gems can be used in any socket, if you don't care about bonuses.
Meta: Revitalizing or Ember Primal Diamond (Burning exists too, but it's really not as good.)
Blue Socket: Sparkling (Spirit)
Red Socket: Purified (Intellect and Spirit)
Yellow Socket: Zen (Spirit and Mastery)
Food: Mogu Fish Stew (Way of the Pot – for Intellect, my preference) or Steamed Crab Surprise (Way of the Steamer – for Spirit)
Flask: Flask of the Warm Sun (Intellect – my preference) or Flask of Falling Leaves (Spirit)
Potions: Potion of Focus (if you have time to use it) and Master Mana Potion (for when there's no time). Potion of the Jade Serpent (for Intellect boost) and Darkwater Potion (or any other running speed boost) have occasional situational use.
Stats in Action Notes
I went into heroic 5s without paying too much attention to my stats (I even forgot to reforge some pieces to Spirit) and I did fine. So I wouldn't stress about finding Best-in-Slot gear right from the getgo. Start by getting the best Intellect plate you can, to increase all your stats. Once you're comfortable with your mana and the strength of your heals, you can start funneling toward better itemization.
Raiding requires a crapton (which is more than just a ton) more mana regen than 5s, mainly because the fights are 3x times longer. Don't be surprised if your previously never ending mana bar gives you a wakeup call after you make the jump. In terms of differences between 10s and 25s, I didn't feel much regarding stats. I feel them equally mana demanding, and Mastery tends to be the preferred secondary stat for both types of raiders.
LRF, as opposed to typical raiding, depends on how much effort you put into the fights. I run out of mana in LFR, but I like to pad the meters. The healers who tend to just stand there (typically LFR consists of 2 active healers and 4 healers who just stand there) are always at full mana.
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10 Comments on "How I'm healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: Stats"
November 2, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Yay Holy Paladins!
I haven't had a chance to whet my Holy Paladin's teeth in a raid outside of LFR (And really, I do much the same as you in LFR. PAD ALL THE METERS, which is surprisingly good practice at understanding the limits of your static mana pool), but from what I've seen of my total healing done in LFR is a good split between mastery and Light of Dawn. I wonder if that's a side effect of having people at max health a lot in LFR and so everything is just bubbles. But most of what I've seen corroborates your data around Spirit > Intellect > Mastery > Haste. Hopefully I get to test this out in a real raid setting next week, as I start raid #2 and bring my pally in.
Having less haste, however, just means you need to be more proactive in your healing rather than reactive. I was already reforging for Mastery exclusively in Cata, so I'm used to not having much haste, so I didn't really notice a huge drop in my casting speed. But using raid frames that show you when a player is targetted allows you a good half second warning that someone's about to get hit with some sort of effect, often damaging, so it allows you to begin your cast *before* they take damage.
The bottom line, as far as I see it, is both haste and mastery are throughput stats, but haste costs you mana while mastery saves you mana, which at least for the first tier of raiding where mana can be quite tight makes the choice pretty easy, to be honest.
November 4, 2012 at 2:00 am
Very nice guide, I had to book mark it since my pally is only level 30 currently, I'll be back =)
November 4, 2012 at 8:59 pm
It takes a lot of haste to even reduce our heals by 0.1 second but mastery gets larger quickly. I adapted to the lack of haste pretty quickly, besides holy shock is instant, light of dawn is instant, etc. Having said that I am looking forward to 2 seconds off holy shock from our 5.1 4pce.
I normally drink a spirit flask and eat int food(panderan banquet) just to be confusing. But the lack of spirit on epics is a bit annoying. At one point I had 3 items with no base spirit 😦 Even yesterday for a 7 ilvl upgrade to my chest I got a lot more int and +mastery rather then +haste,But I lost 100 spirit and instead of a blue slot It was red . /Sigh why blizz.
November 14, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Your blog is the only thing wow-related that is not blocked by my office server's firewall.
I thought I would leave a comment this time to let you know you have other Holy Palys that read your blog but don't comment.
I gemmed Intel at the beginning of MoP… now it will cost a fortune to change all gems, including meta, to spirit. Damn.
Bon retour, et merci pour cet article.
November 30, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Thanks for the article! Looking forward to your next guide posts.


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Boiling Bacon with Parsley Sauce From 'My Irish Table'
Cathal Armstrong serves this "boiling bacon," or brined pork belly, for Halloween, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy it in March. It is, after all, comforting enough to tide us through the rocky weather of early spring, and the bright, herbaceous parsley sauce with which it's served has hints of the warm weather to come. Armstrong's recipe in his new cookbook, My Irish Table, takes a few days, but most of the work is hands-off. The belly takes an extended dip in a mustard seed-filled brine before it's boiled until fall-apart tender. A quick trip under the broiler is enough to turn the fat cap from a wan white to a golden crust, giving each bite of the belly a glorious crunch.
Why I picked this recipe: Pork belly isn't often the first protein I turn to when looking for a main dish, but maybe it should be.
What worked: I wasn't sure that a milky, béchamel-based sauce would be the right accompaniment to the rich pork belly, but the copious amount of parsley brightened the sauce so much that it was actually a perfect pairing. I also appreciated that, despite the long curing and boiling time, this pork belly recipe was dead simple.
What didn't: Boiling for 3 full hours resulted in a very soft pork belly. I probably would have preferred it to be a little less cooked. Give the belly a few pokes after 2 hours of cooking, and pull it out when it has softened to your liking.
Suggested tweaks: Since you're not using the brine to preserve the pork belly, you don't necessarily need the curing salt. If you don't want to use it, you can just substitute kosher salt. The pork belly won't retain its lovely pink color, but it'll taste just fine.
Reprinted with permission from My Irish Table: Recipes from the Homeland and Restaurant Eve by Cathal Armstrong and David Hagedom. Copyright 2014. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
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- Yield:Serves 6
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:3 1/2 hours, plus 3 days brining time for the pork
- Brine
- 1 quart water
- 1 cup kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 quart water frozen into ice cubes (2 pounds)
- 1 small head garlic, unpeeled, halved crosswise
- 1 yellow onion, quartered
- 2 tablespoons pink curing salt such as sel rose or Insta Cure #1
- 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
- 1/2 small bunch fresh sage
- 1 (2 1/2-pound rectangle) pork belly, preferably Kurobuta or Berkshire, rind removed
- Parsley Sauce
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk, warmed
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley
Prepare the brine: In a large pot over high heat, bring the 1 quart of water to a boil. Add the kosher salt and sugar, stirring until they are dissolved. Remove from the heat and stir in the ice to completely cool the brine. Add the garlic, onion, curing salt, peppercorns, mustard seeds, and sage. The brine can be kept for several days in the refrigerator.
Brine the bacon: Place the pork belly in a 2 1/2-gallon zip-top bag placed in a large bowl. Pour the brine into the bag. Seal the bag, removing as much air as possible so that the pork is completely submerged. Refrigerate the pork in the bag for 3 days.
Boil the pork: Remove the pork from the brine; discard the brine and thoroughly rinse the pork under cold running water. In a large pot, cover the pork with cold water and boil it over high heat for 3 hours, or until fork tender. Add water as needed throughout the process so the pork remains covered at all times.
Make the parsley sauce: In a saucepan over medium heat, heat the butter until it bubbles. Whisk in the flour and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, whisking constantly, until the mixture is blond in color. Whisking continually, slowly add the milk. Bring the sauce to a boil and cook until it thickens, about 3 minutes, whisking continually to keep lumps from forming. Add the salt, pepper, nutmeg, and parsley, whisking to incorporate. Season with more salt and pepper if you wish. It can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. (To reheat, heat 1/2 cup milk in a saucepan over medium heat and stir in the sauce in batches, warming each one through before adding the next.)
Broil the bacon: Heat the broiler, positioning the rack 8 inches from the heating element. Remove the bacon from the pot, blot it dry with paper towels, and place it on a rimmed baking sheet. Broil it for several minutes until the top is dark brown and crisp. Be patient with the broiling. It doesn't have to be high temperature or close to the heat: you want a nice, even caramelization and crunchiness on the top.
Present the dish: Spoon the warm parsley sauce into a small bowl. Transfer the bacon to a cutting board and slice it 1/2 inch thick, cutting crosswise. Arrange the bacon on a serving platter or individual plates; serve with the sauce on the side.
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