Archive for the 'Pork' Category
Pork Shoulder Braised in Cider
Last week Ginger had pork braised in cider for lunch in a rather good gastropub (Great Queen Street on - you guessed it - Great Queen Street in Covent Garden) and wanted to try to recreate it. We had a look around for recipes but eventually just did our own thing.
We bought [...]
Pizza
Our dough turned out a bit too thick again but it was a definite improvement on last time. Garlic bread followed by salami, olive, pepper and rocket for me; tuna, anchovy, olive and pepper for Fred.
Read More..>>Final Barbecue of the Year (Probably…)
As evidenced by yesterday’s steak and kidney pie, we seem to have moved almost completely into winter cooking mode already. However, today’s weather was rather good and it seemed like a good day to squeeze in one last barbecue (although we will of course be glad of any opportunity to have another one!).
We haven’t [...]
Crunchy Pork Chops
We first ate these at a friend’s house and really enjoyed them so decided to cook them ourselves. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe by Nigella who suggests eating them with garlic spinach and a tomato salad. We had them with mustard mashed potatoes and runner beans. The mustard in the mashed potatoes [...]
Read More..>>Roast Pork
Yesterday we had friends over for lunch and cooked roast pork with stuffing, roast potatoes, cabbage, leeks, carrots and peas. We also deep-fried some sage leaves and served these with the pork. I’d had these earlier in the week at a really good pub but ours didn’t turn out the same way. [...]
Read More..>>Picnic
Last night we met some friends at Kew Gardens for a picnic. Since we had all been too busy to cook, I went via Marks and Spencer on the way and picked up some food. The ham hock terrine was particularly good but no-one was impressed with the crab pate.
Read More..>>Roast Loin of Pork
Roast pork is my favourite but we don’t eat it that often (1 April 2007 according to the archives) so I was really looking forward to lunch today and I wasn’t disappointed. The meat was tender and tasty and produced fantastic, crackly crackling - we achieved this by leaving the meat uncovered in the [...]
Read More..>>Epoisses and Salami
Last night, we’d planned to go food shopping and pick up something for dinner while we were there. There seemed to be an awful lot of traffic though so we decided to postpone our trip, we couldn’t however postpone our hunger so opted to pick up some snacks from the deli instead. We [...]
Read More..>>Pasta Amatriciana
Today was a fairly typical Tuesday, it got to 4.30 and we didn’t have anything planned for dinner. Fred still isn’t feeling very well and I have tooth ache so neither of us were particularly in the mood for cooking. This usually means we eat pasta so, rather than rely on one of [...]
Read More..>>Mexican Barbecue
We rather enjoy having themed barbecues rather than just buying a load of assorted dead animals and throwing them onto the fire. In collaboration with some friends, we decided that a Mexican themed barbecue would definitely be worth doing. So we invited them round, did some hunting for appropriate recipes and got started.
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