Archive for the 'Pork' Category
Keith Floyd’s Jambalaya
In honour of Keith Floyd, who sadly passed away this week, we thought we would cook something from his repertoire for tonight’s dinner. Not a lot of his recipes seem to exist online and many of those we found called for huge amounts of seafood which isn’t particularly in keeping with our current budget. We […]
Read More..>>The Bull and Last
After a week of intensive meat-eating in the Lake District, the very last thing we should have been doing was eating another big, meat-heavy meal. We had already booked this some time ago, as part of Dine with Dos Hermanos so, we made our way to Highgate feeling slightly apprehensive and very guilty about the […]
Read More..>>Roast Pork with Apples and Chorizo
This was no mean feat. Perfectly moist, flavoursome roast pork with wonderful crunchy crackling, roasted apples and a side order of crispy chorizo, for 15 people in an unfamiliar kitchen with incredibly blunt knives. My compliments to the poor chef who managed to not even look a little bit frustrated as he tried to remove […]
Read More..>>Cumberland Sausage
Stephen and I are on holiday in the Lake District with 14 friends. As you can imagine, catering for that number of people is potentially challenging but, on the first evening, the solution was obvious: Cumbrian sausage from the local butcher, Harrisons of Wigton. When I first heard of this plan, I idly wondered just […]
Read More..>>Potato and Chorizo Salad
We’re going away on Saturday so this week is all about using up the stuff that’s hanging around in the fridge and cupboards. This is quite similar to the chorizo and potato dish we cooked last week but lighter and more like a tapas dish really. It worked well and was very quick and easy, […]
Read More..>>Stuffed Pork Fillet
We’ve not had much luck with stuffed pork loin and sadly, this was no exception. While the flavours worked well together, the pork unfortunately dried out. The original recipe did say to cook the pork in a foil bag with the top left open which we thought seemed a bit pointless, perhaps that would have […]
Read More..>>Where’s My Pork Chop?
Where’s My Pork Chop is Dan from Food Urchin‘s little side project. He works nights and doesn’t often have time to prepare something decent to eat in the evening so wondered if he could convince fellow bloggers to swap a portion of something tasty from their kitchen for some wine or something similar. I hate […]
Read More..>>Pasta with Pancetta and Broad Beans
Early dinner this evening so that we can take advantage of the last of the sun in the park. We saw these tennis racquet pasta shapes in our local deli recently and thought they would be fun to eat during Wimbledon fortnight. The dish itself was a little claggy from the cream and would have […]
Read More..>>Pork Pie
There’s nothing more perfect for a picnic than a pork pie. This one was sent to us for review from Abel and Cole which we took along to eat while Stephen played cricket yesterday. Well, I mostly ate it while Stephen was busy but, as it was so large, there was plenty left over when […]
Read More..>>Pancetta, Sage and Broad Bean Risotto
As I think we’ve mentioned before, our sage plant is going crazy so we’ve been trying to think of ways to use it up. That, coupled with a risotto craving led us to this evening’s meal. We had some really good stock in the freezer that was made with two chicken carcasses which leant a […]
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