Today I would have been curing our ham for the Southern Maryland Stuffed Ham we had envisioned as the centerpiece of a family Easter buffet. Alas, the fresh ham that was promised at our local Whole Foods turned out to be a fairy tale, a chimera, the figment of a meat clerk’s imagination. I’ll call […]
This is how an accidental roast pork happens: I pulled the roast out of the freezer several days ago. It was one of the bone-in loin roasts we brought back from our farmer friend’s matanza earlier in the month. But then we ended up throwing a dinner party for 10 people. The roast wasn’t big […]
The vineyards of Bandol in Southern France have been producing wines since Roman times. Normally I would have guessed a Pinot Noir to accompany our matanza pork roast. But my brother-in-law, Tom, Pinot skeptic and eonophile that he is, had selected a choice bottle of Bandol from the Tempier domaine near Toulon, on the Mediterranean […]
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