Pork belly–uncured bacon–was all the rage for a while. Has it become a cliche already? I hope not, because my wife and I really like the fatty unctuousness of pork belly and we’ve had it served perfectly cooked at a couple of restaurants here in the District of Columbia.
Recently I tracked down some pork belly [...]
Entries Tagged as 'pork'
How Do You Like Your Pork Belly?
March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Recipes
Tags: pork
Best Pork Chop Ever
February 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · dinner
We get nearly all our meats delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery. In addition to its own beef herd, South Mountain sells pork, lamb and poultry products from other local farmers. But one thing we’ve learned is that just because it’s local doesn’t always mean its good. We’ve had bacon from the farmers market that [...]
Tags: farmer's markets·pork
Brined Pork Tenderloin
October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Recipes, dinner
The menu my wife devised for a recent catered dinner party included a pork tenderloin brined, then grilled. The pork was so outstanding–as evidenced by guests visiting the kitchen to make comments–I thought the process was worth sharing.
There’s nothing really new about brining meats to infuse flavor, but pork seems to benefit especially. This particular [...]
Breakfast
September 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · breakfast
Fried eggs with pork puddin’ and braised green beans.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Shopping, none.
Pork “pudding” is very similar to scrapple, except that it doesn’t have any grain in it. Both contain odd bits of the pig. But scrapple typically is bound together with corn meal.
We get our pork puddin’ delivered from our dairy, South Mountain Creamery, [...]
Tags: eggs·green beans·pork
Breakfast
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · breakfast
Fried egg with “pork pudding” and tomato slices from the garden.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Shopping: none
Pork “pudding” is made from the odd bits of the pig and contains no grain products, which differentiates it from the more commonly known “scapple.” The ingredients in this pudding from our local dairy, South Mountain Creamery, are listed as “unskinned [...]
Pork Pudding?
July 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · breakfast
Apologies if this looks too much like yesterday’s post, but I direct your attention to the delectable brown blob on the right. I saw it recently advertised as “pork pudding” on our dairy’s website and had to know what it was. The “pudding” was so reasonably priced I ordered two. They arrived as small bricks, vacuum-packed, [...]
Tags: local food·pork
Ridiculously Good Breakfast
July 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · breakfast, garden
Poached eggs with sauteed beet greens and Allan Benton prosciutto.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Shopping: none
The most delicious part of the beet may be above ground. The leaves of the beet plant are one of the most delectable of all greens in the garden, but also one of the most fragile. Beet greens are highly perishable. You [...]
Fat Is Back
June 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Wellness, food news
Kudos to Bon Appetit magazine for including bacon, duck fat, whole milk and anchovies on the Top-10 list of healthiest foods.
Even the American Heart Association (AHA), a leader in the campaign against dietary fat, recently revised its nutritional guidelines, increasing the daily recommendations for fat. “”The science just wasn’t there” to support the anti-fat campaign, acknowledges [...]
Pork Chop With Homemade Sauerkraut
June 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, dinner
Thick, Niman Ranch pork chops were on sale at Whole Foods this week for less than $5 a pound. I grabbed a couple in anticipation of this dinner: chops braised in our homemade sauerkraut.
The kraut was fermented months ago and has been waiting in the fridge for the appropriate moment. I sliced an onion and [...]
Tags: braise·pork·sauerkraut
Sausage Rope In Roasted Veg Marinara
June 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Recipes, dinner
Here’s a mongrel dish if ever there was one. I’ll explain.
In the process of making a roasted vegetable lasagna for a client I over calculated on the veggies. I had marinara sauce left over as well. There just had to be a good use for them. In stepped a length of pork sausage from our [...]
Tags: pork·roasted vegetables·sauces·sausage
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