homemade bulk italian sausage

We made lasagna this past week but didn’t find any bulk Italian sausage at the store. So, I thought I’d take a shot at making it myself. I combined a recipe from Alton Brown with another one I found online at Sausage Mania, added a little extra flavoring, and voila! It turned out very well [...]

pork asado, filipino style

Today was a great day – I used two different dutch ovens to create two different braised dishes. MMMMM. The first one was a small batch of kare-kare, a Filipino peanut stew that I’ve written up before. The other was a batch of Pork Asado, which braises pork in a soy sauce and brown sugar [...]

pork loin roast, cuban style

My mom brought me a 3+ pound frozen pork loin when they came up for Easter (Let me explain. No, wait, it is too long. Let me sum up: they were moving and needed to clean out their freezer.), and when Mike came home with some fresh Honeycrisp apples, I went looking for a good [...]

party tested pasta sauce, meatball version

Fellow foodie blogger Masako hosted a pasta party at her house a few nights ago when I was visiting, and I volunteered to make the sauces (it was the least I could do!). Two other foodie bloggers – Padraig and Elizabeth – were also in attendance. This was the recipe I made, adapted from the [...]

easy pork chops and a new whole grain: quinoa

I purchased a bag of quinoa at the local grocery store about three months ago, and I finally got around to making some last week. I followed the recipe for “basic quinoa” on the bag, but added a few extras to spice it up. I served it with some quick and easy pork chops and [...]

Kalua Pig Roast

My brother just recommended this post to me which describes how to make a luau-style pork roast on the grill. He tried it and said it was excellent!
Gotta love when recipes call for banana leaves!

dutch oven pulled pork

I am about to hit the road for another week of work travel, so I thought I’d cook up some meals to leave in the fridge for Mike. I asked him what he wanted, and he requested pulled pork. Lately, I’ve been making a dutch oven version of the Svarovsky staple, since our slow cooker [...]

more game food: podin’s pulled pork

Well, the NIT has started, the Big Dance had its play-in game last night, and tomorrow is the first of two awesome days of NCAA basketball. As such, I thought I should share yet another game day favorite – Podin’s pulled pork. This recipe makes enough for a crowd, and it’s done in the slow [...]