pork Archives

Fagioli con le cotiche (Roman-Style Pork and Beans)

5 March 2011

Tuscans are known for being the biggest bean-eaters in Italy, so much so that they are sometimes called mangiafagioli in […]

25 February 2011

You could probably devote a small cookbook just to Italian veal chop recipes, but with the price of veal being

30 January 2011

Some of you will have read in a recent post that I finally broke down and bought a slow cooker,

15 December 2010

What to do with a spare ham bone if, like me, you don’t care too much for split pea soup?

7 November 2010

Not sure about you, but the weather here has crossed the line from pleasantly crisp to downright cold at night.

29 October 2010

Malloreddus are a kind of pasta typical of the island region of Sardinia. Also called gnocchetti sardi or ‘little Sardinian

12 September 2010

One of my favorite ways to while away a rainy Sunday afternoon is to browse through my old cookbooks. I

1 August 2010

They don’t make pork like they used to. Modern pork is raised lean for health reasons but in the process

11 July 2010

If I had to mention one dish in the Italian repertoire that epitomizes elegant summer eating, this might well be