Pork

How to make a casserole or stew

February 2, 2013
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Casseroles or stews are divided into two categories, those where all the ingredients are added to the pan without browning the meat first, and those that do brown the meat and deglaze the pan.  I make both types, it really depends on the time I have.  I can also make a decision as with my […]

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Good Quick Marinade for Chicken and Ribs

April 20, 2011
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I had bought chicken to make my Sweet Miso & Lemon Chicken but at the last minute had to change plans, allergy daughter had over done on soya previous days and I needed to make a soya and maize free dish for the family.  Rummaging through the kitchen cupboard I saw the bottles of Wilkson […]

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Cabbage with Fresh Dill and rendering your bacon fat

December 12, 2010
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First of all you can make this vegetarian, leaving the bacon out will slightly change the flavour but what makes this dish special is the fresh dill.  Dill is a nice enough herb but I find raw fresh dill can be a bully and overpower everything if not balanced, I wasn’t counting on how it mellows when […]

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Roast Rack of Pork with Fennel Seeds

May 23, 2010
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My favourite roast is my Mum’s rack of pork which has been marinated in the traditional Portuguese marinade of white wine, garlic, bay leaves and salt and pepper (we use ground white pepper often with pork for its pungency).  She manages to roast it until falling off the bone tender.  The English are crazy for […]

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Chinese Garlic Chives & Bacon

May 9, 2010
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These mild scented garlic flowers are delicious not to mention pretty only taking a couple of minutes to cook.  After a fleeting visit this week to Chinatown in London I picked up these garlic chives, which I love and can only buy them there, and without fail I couldn’t resist picking up a couple of […]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010
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This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’.  This was a one of very two […]

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Sauteed Potatoes with the Leftover Pork

January 28, 2010
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Make sure you have some of that bacon and ribs from the Poor Man’s Feijoada just so you can eat these potatoes, because if there ever was anything that should be attached to potatoes is crispy bits of pork and if you are so incline finish it off with a runny egg over it, it […]

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Poor Man’s Feijoada – Beans cooked with Pork

January 28, 2010
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Feijoada pronouncing the ‘j’ like you would in ‘Jack’ and not the Spanish way of an ‘s’ sound, if you type into the search engine you’ll have lots of pages on examples of Brazilian feijoda with black beans, fresh and salted pork, fresh and dried beef, cured sausages, blood sausages, quite an extensive list of […]

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Rojões – Portuguese Pork with Cumin and White Wine

June 10, 2009
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Cooking rojões always takes me back to my Gran. I picture her standing over the stove on which there’s a huge pot, wearing her blue apron, wooden spoon in hand turning around asking me if I want a rojõe to keep me going until lunch was ready. You’re never allowed to be hungry when my […]

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