I’m revisiting my current favorite braised pork shoulder from Bruce Aidells’s Complete Book of Pork. I originally wrote about it here, but after taking delivery of a gorgeous butt from our local dairy and opening to the recipe again I realized I had neglected a couple of things. First, there should be a heaping tablespoon or more of […]
To celebrate the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans [PDF] issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday, we cooked the fattiest pork chops we could find. Actually, they were just barely streaked with meat. I found them at the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday at the Ecofriendly tent. That’s the Virginia outfit run by […]
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I’ve had pork shoulder (or butt) on my mind lately and sure enough, there it was in the meat case at Whole Foods the other day. Big, beautiful roasts. And at $3.69 a pound, it seemed like a bargain as well. I couldn’t resist, and took home a roast a bit under four pounds. Now to cook […]
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