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Category: Pork

PERFECT PORK CHOPS IN MINUTES

PERFECT PORK CHOPS IN MINUTES

A NEW-TO-US TECHNIQUE YIELDS  PERFECT PORK CHOPS IN MINUTES Turn, turn, turn to cook perfect pork chops in minutes…then enhance them with a simple pan sauce of sage, garlic, and butter poured over the finished chop. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been cooking, you…

FROM SAVEUR MAGAZINE: THE BEST CHRISTMAS HAM (VERY LITTLE) MONEY CAN BUY

FROM SAVEUR MAGAZINE: THE BEST CHRISTMAS HAM (VERY LITTLE) MONEY CAN BUY

A Q&A with Monte Mathews, the man behind Saveur’s perennially popular, five-ingredient, “cheap ham” recipe called “Monte’s Ham” Connie McCabe for Saveur Magazine In the 1990s, when I was a senior associate editor at Saveur, the magazine published recipes for Filet de Boeuf Grille avec…

Bangers, Mash and Red Onion Gravy..no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Bangers, Mash and Red Onion Gravy..no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

The Germans make 1200 kinds of sausages from bratwurst to weisswurst. But in New York, you’d swear that there are only two kinds of pork sausages: Hot Italian and Sweet Italian.  The only other pork sausages you can reliably find are breakfast sausages and even…

A new pasta sauce: Braised Pork Ragù

A new pasta sauce: Braised Pork Ragù

This one-pot wonder takes pork at its budget best and makes a rich ragú We’re always on the lookout for a great new pasta sauce.  While this recipe from Kay Chun may not have started out as one, that’s how it ended up on our…

Sichuan Pork in Garlic Sauce with Mushrooms, Water Chestnuts and Snap Peas

Sichuan Pork in Garlic Sauce with Mushrooms, Water Chestnuts and Snap Peas

The goal of our summer kitchen is speed.  Welcome to Stir Fry 101. Sichuan cooking is immediately associated with hot and spicy flavors. Not so here. This dish has a sweet, sour, and salty taste. But it’s not nearly as hot. That makes it a…

Jonathan Waxman’s Soy and Ginger Pork Chops

Jonathan Waxman’s Soy and Ginger Pork Chops

From Food & Wine’s ” Chef’s Easy Weeknight Dinners” Jonathan Waxman’s Soy and Ginger Pork Chops Andrew and I often get asked whether we use our hundreds of cookbooks. The truth is, we read cookbooks the way other people read novels. Cover to cover.  But…