Posted in America, Italian, Italian-American, Meat, New Jersey, Pasta, Philadelphia, Recipe, Recipes, chops, gravy, offal, pigs, sauce, sausage, slow cooking, trotter, unhealthy on Jan 19th, 2009
They (we) call it a Sunday Gravy because it really suits a Sunday best. The long simmering, the wine drinking, the letting-it-sit-on-the-stove-till-the-family-arrives kind of gravy. Thanks to the Sopranos, people all over the world have heard of Sunday Gravy. Some scratch their heads in wonder as to why some call it sauce and others call [...]
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Posted in German, Recipe, Recipes, apples, cabbage, ground meat, lard, mustard, pork, sausage, slow cooking, veal, vegetarian on Nov 15th, 2008
Get your head out of your bums – I know what you were thinking when you read that title. We bought our Kitchen Aid meat grinder and sausage maker attachment months ago and since then we’ve been excited, yet kind of nervous, to try it out. I figured grinding meat would be easy, but making [...]
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Posted in Europe, Italian, Italy, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Tuscan, bunny, culture, dining, game, hearty, rabbit, restaurant, slow cooking, spices, stew, tourism, travel, tuscany, wine on Jul 8th, 2008
Remember way back yonder, when the weather was still cool, we were on the search for some rabbit to make? We ended up calling around to butchers around Brooklyn and found a place that had them and asked them to save two for us. When we arrived, the butcher handed us our babies and, with [...]
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Posted in Italian, Italy, Meat, Naples, Napoli, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, Saveur, beef, cheap meal, culture, eating, ground meat, hearty, holiday, language, milk, pancetta, pork, sauce, slow cooking, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel, wine on Apr 22nd, 2008
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Warning! You are about to read a lot about a dish that many would think could be discussed in one paragraph – Bolognese Ragu. After two trips to Bologna, I really began to understand how seriously the people [...]
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Posted in Garlic, Italian, Olive Oil, Pernil, Recipe, Recipes, anchovies, cheap meal, easy, herbs, lemon, parsley, pork, skin, slow cooking, thyme on Apr 6th, 2008
One of the tastiest and cheapest things I can buy in my grocery store is a bone-in pork shoulder. When I saw that they were on sale for 79 cents (YES, that’s right) a pound, I figured I’d pick one up. For only two of us, I bought the smallest one I found [...]
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Posted in America, Easter, Meat, Provencal, bay, braised, bunny, capers, chicken stock, delicacy, dining, diversity, eating, flour, game, healthy, hearty, lower fat, mustard, olives, onions, parsley, podcast, rabbit, rosemary, savory, slow cooking, thyme on Mar 27th, 2008
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It’s the Thursday after Easter and most people out there are still picking the candy and chocolate out of their teeth having just gorged themselves on all manner of Easter Bunny-shaped confectionery. Ever the destroyers of convention, we have been doing something altogether more real and, some may say, sinister. Yes, friends, cover your children’s [...]
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Posted in Garlic, Pernil, Puerto Rican, Recipe, Recipes, cheap meal, chicharron, culture, easy, entertainment, juice, orange juice, pork, slow cooking, spices, tradition on Jan 19th, 2008
Many, many moons ago, I published my recipe for pernil, the delicious Puerto Rican roasted pork butt/shoulder. Recently, I had a whole Saturday afternoon to try a longer and slower cooking method for my bone-in pork butt. I have to tell you, if you have the time I would advise cooking it this way as [...]
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Posted in Pernil, Puerto Rican, Recipe, Recipes, cheap meal, easy, lime, orange juice, pork, slow cooking on Aug 21st, 2007
UPDATE: HAVE TIME TO COOK YOUR PERNIL LOW AND SLOW? CHECK OUT OUR UPDATED PERNIL RECIPE THAT CALLS FOR DOUBLE THE COOKING TIME!
When preparing to bring dinner over our friends house for 6 adults, I scratched my head and couldn’t help but thinking, “What can we make that’s cheap?”. Pork shoulder, baby! The Puerto [...]
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