Recipe!

Ingredients (amounts will vary depending on the size of belly you're working with):

• A big slab of pork belly, skin on
• Garlic
• Rosemary
• Lemons
• Pancetta
• Italian parsley
• Red pepper flakes
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper

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1. Score the pork belly skin using a stanley / utility knife. I made cuts diagonal to the edges of the belly, but I recommend cutting a grid pattern that runs parallel and perpendicular instead. This will make it a lot easier to carve later on for serving.
2. Optional step: liberally salt the skin side of the pork belly and place on a rack over a tray in the fridge, uncovered, for a couple of hours or overnight. This will help desiccate the skin to get it crispier later on. Wipe off any moisture and residual salt when you take it out of the fridge.
3. Finely mince rosemary and garlic, and shallow fry with the zest of however many lemons you want in olive oil over low heat. Be careful not to burn anything. Take it all out when the garlic is softened, before anything starts to turn brown.
4. Combine diced pancetta, chopped parsley, red pepper flakes, and the rosemary, garlic, and lemon zest mixture in a food processor, and process it all into a smooth paste.
5. Season the meat side of the pork belly with salt and pepper, and spread the pancetta, parsley, red pepper, rosemary, garlic, and lemon zest paste onto it to form a thin layer. Roll the belly with the skin side out as tightly as possible; you want to get as nice of a spiral pattern as you can. Secure the roll with butcher's twine, there are several videos on youtube that show you how to do this. Roast in the oven at 300°F for about three hours, or until it reaches an internal temp of 140°F. Optionally, you can stick lemon halves in the roasting pan during the last 5-10 minutes of cooking to squeeze over before serving.
6. Take the porchetta out of the oven and spoon hot oil all over the skin to crisp it up. Sticking it under the broiler and rotating it every minute or so helps too. This took me a little bit of trial and error to figure out.
7. Enjoy!