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 [...]
Pork Chop
Posted in Food, Pork, Root Vegetables, Sous Vide, tagged Fall Dishes, Maple Vinegar, Pastured Pork, Sweet Potatoes, Yonder Way Farm on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been so enjoying Yonder Way Farm’s pork chops that I had to post something about it. All the pork from them is delicious, but these prime thick cuts are just heavenly and worth every penny. I’ve taken to salting/flavoring them 24 hours before cooking them. I usually use a mixture of thyme, sage and [...]
Noma: Pig Belly and Potato Skins, Cep Oil and Wood Chips
Posted in Book Recipes, charcuterie, Food, Mushrooms, Pork, Sous Vide, tagged Cep, Hay, Homemade Bacon, Mushroom Bouillon, Pork Belly, Purple Potatoes, Rene Redzepi, Wood Chips on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cooking with woodchips and hay (yeah, hay) might seem way weird at first glance. My 8-year old was beyond shocked when I told him that I am buying hay at the pet store (all natural packaged and never used hay that is) to use in cooking at home. He kept asking and double checking that I am not messing [...]
Labor Day Bocks and Brats
Posted in Baking, Book Recipes, Bread, charcuterie, Food, Pork, Sausage, Sous Vide, tagged Bockwurst, Bratwurst, Charcuterie, Homebaked Buns, Homemade Sausage on September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We were in San Antonio this past weekend, so I did not have much time to prepare a full-fledged barbecue spread. San Antonio was a fun close getaway with the family and as usual we had a great meal at Dough Pizzeria Napolitana (might be one of the best of it’s kind in the country) and [...]




