Blog Post & Recipe: Desperate dinners - good food from the cupboard (via Limes & Lycopene)
Canned tomatoes, mashed anchovies, capers and pasta. These ingredients, staples from the kitchen cupboard, are the basis for one of the best desperate dinners: pasta puttanesca.
Blog Post & Recipe: The Nasty Bits: Crisp Fried Pig's Tail
I want to make the case that pigs' tails contain everything desirable in the pig, and in exactly the right proportions. Unlike oxtail, the tails of pigs come with the skin intact so that each segment is a perfect cross-section of skin, fat, tendon, and meat [...] a tail is a little porky universe unto itself ...
Blog Post & Recipe: Cotechino with Red Lentil Stew
Cotechino is a large thick sausage, lightly spiced and made from all sorts of bits of pork and a generous quality of it's fat. It's first boiled for a few hours and when sliced the combination of ingredients leads to a wonderfully gelatinous treat. To balance the richness of the dish, lentils are the favoured companion.
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