We ate and drank too much on Thanksgiving. Friday, it was my turn to make dinner and since we had a big piece of pork shoulder in the fridge, I had a ready plan: green pozole. Writing about green pozole was one of my first efforts as a food writer. It was never published. But […]
The inspiration for this soup was a hunk of butternut squash sitting unused at the bottom of the crisper drawer and a 1-pound bag of dried black beans that came back from one of my “food appreciation” classes. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of butternut squash and black […]
Tags:beans·pork·soup·winter squash
Our visit to Dennise and Andy Wright’s farm outside Hart, Michigan, on Wednesday yielded a 4-lb, bone-in pork shoulder from their small herd of Tamworth pigs. The Tamworth is an old breed of pig, brown and hairy. They were romping happily in their pasture enclosure when we visited, rooting and wallowing and bathing in their […]
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