Carolina Smokehouse in Cuenca, Ecuador...It's What Santa Brought Our Family!

Christmas Gift to Each Other...in the Bowen Knot Household

Lets talk meat for a moment. Meat here is butchered differently. Cuts are not the same, no hormones, the meat is grass fed, and very lean.

Given that things are different, we miss a few things and decided to treat ourselves to some locally made gringo style products.

We had eaten at several restaurants that featured Carolina Smokehouse bacon and every time it was amazing. So we contacted them, spoke to Sandy, and placed an order.

What we ordered:

• 10 each or 1 lbs - Sausage Patties "Mild" for $10US
• 25 strips or 1 lbs - Smoked Bacon for $15US
• Several servings - Locally Homemade Grits for $3US
• Made 12 - Biscuit Mix for $3US
• 2 lbs - Double Smoked Ham $32US

Carolina Smokehouse "Prosciutto" Top

Carolina Smokehouse "Prosciutto"Bottom

Carolina Smokehouse "Bacon"

Carolina Smokehouse "Mild Sausage"

Carolina Smokehouse "Biscuits and Grits"

Carolina Smokehouse "Receipt"

White Wine from Chile

Red Wine from Chile

While costly, we missed American pork a lot and we thought this would make for a wonderful family Christmas gift. We enjoyed most of the products. The ham however was a bit odd. The company offers prosciutto and we suspect that is what we got by mistake.

The highlights for us were the bacon and grits. We know we will be getting more of both very soon! Yum!!! The sausage and ham/prosciutto and biscuits were good but not quite to our liking. We are overjoyed to find grits and tasty bacon. Both are favorites and considered soul food for our family.

I think you will enjoy the different items Carolina smokehouse offers. Here in Ecuador its nice to find a taste of home.

Update:  Heather contacted Carolina Smokehouse and learned that we were given a big uncut prosciutto and Sandy was very sorry.  She offered to replace the ham for free and she even gave us a free biscuit mix.  While we were there we also purchased more bacon, grits, and there new sea salt.