I will kick this off by saying that this is every bit as delicious and as satisfying as it looks. It’s a great comforting combination of a cured piece of pork belly, a perfect impeccably cooked portion of loin, tart cabbage cooked with onions and bacon, seared marinated mushrooms and a rich flavor-packed pork sauce [...]
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The Fat Duck: Pot-Roast Loin of Pork, Braised Belly, Gratin of Truffled Macaroni
Posted in Book Recipes, Food, Green Vegetables, Mushrooms, Pasta and Noodles, Pork, tagged Braised Cabbage, Comfort Food, Heston Blumenthal, Homemade Pasta, King Trumpet Mushrooms, Pork Belly, Reduced Sauce, Sous Vide Pork, The Fat Duck on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Fresh Extruded Pasta: Rigatoni, Sausage and Ricotta
Posted in Book Recipes, Dairy, Food, Pasta and Noodles, Pork, Sausage, tagged Extruded Pasta, Homemade Pasta, Homemade Sausage, Tomato Sauce on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Making pasta at home is nothing new. I’ve been doing fresh egg pasta, flat, stuffed, hand-rolled or on a chitarra for years. However, making “dry” fresh pasta was not something I’ve tackled. I did not want to invest in a pasta extruder and was not sure it will be worth it. Also, most books never bother with [...]
Alinea: Pork Cheek, Pumpernickel, Gruyere, Scallions
Posted in Book Recipes, Food, Green Vegetables, Pork, tagged Alinea Recipe, Caramelized Onion Powder, Caramelized Onion Salt, Grant Achatz, Panko, Pickled Green Onions, Pig Jowl, Raisin Sauce, Sous Vide Pig Jowl, Worcestershire on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This dish belongs in the spring section of the Alinea book. With ramps and green garlic as two of its main components (ramps goes where that scallions is in the heading of the original recipe) it really can only be served on their Spring menu. Ramps are wild leeks that look like a cross between a leek and a green onion. Their [...]
Cassoulet and Green Salad, Country Bread and Red Wine, Walnut Tart – A Dinner from Southwest France
Posted in Baking, Book Recipes, Bread, Breads and Pies, Duck, Food, Green Vegetables, Legumes, Pastry, Pork, Sausage, tagged Cassoulet de Toulouse, Clay Pot Cooking, Duck Confit, French Cooking, Homemade Sausage, Paula Wolfert, Toulouse Sausage, Winter Bean Dishes on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A long titled post suitable to a properly labor-intensive and delicious cold-weather meal. Both the Toulouse-style Cassoulet and the Walnut Tart are based on Paula Wolfert’s recipes in her book “The Cooking of Southwest France“. The bread is the Pain de Campagne (country bread) recipe from Peter Reinhart’s “The Bread baker’s Apprentice“. Making a proper Cassoulet is a good bit [...]
Homemade Fresh Mozzarella
Posted in Book Recipes, Dairy, Food, tagged fresh mozzarella, Homemade Cheese, Ideas in Food, Rennet on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve tried making mozzarella a couple of times before with no success..until now. This was fantastic. The recipe that worked for me was from the “Ideas in Food” book (I just did not use the Lipase enzyme). Now, this time I used raw non-homogenized milk from a farm. So, it still remains to be seen [...]
Alinea: BOAR, Shallot, Cider, Burning Oak Leaves
Posted in Book Recipes, Food, Fruits, Game, Sous Vide, tagged Apple Cider Gel, Burnt Oak, Fall Dishes, Grant Achatz, Wild Boar on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Fall is finally here -more or less I suppose- and changing the way I cook is natural. Even if I can find tomatoes and peppers well into November and December I still prefer to cook more “orange” and “brown” stuff. It makes me and Diana happy to pick up some winter squashes or sweet potatoes and start cooking [...]
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