Articles in the 'Pork Ham Bacon Sausages' Category

Recipe for sausages baked with herby garlic infused beans, bacon and tomato

Baked sausages and beans

There are two words that sent Danny into a fluster. “Bake” and “penne”. There is just one phrase that makes him visibly pale and narrow his dark Irish eyes. “Pasta bake”. The reverberations that take place when I dare to mouthe these two innocent words deserve their own paragraph. I watch with envy as families Read More »

Pigs’ cheeks braised in apples and cider. Slow cooker/crock pot recipe.

pigs in sty

The Chicken Lady, who writes the excellent blog Kitty’s Super Allotment, was cooking pigs’ cheeks with apples when I popped in a few weeks ago. “I think that the butcher just sliced them off the head. Look there’s a piece of ear.” Initially I felt a bit squirmy about tasting this dish. But these were quite Read More »

How to make your own bacon at home without a smoker : our new delicious sweetcure recipe

Young pigs

  If you haven’t tried curing your own bacon at home, please give it a go. It’s so easy. You will be eating superb bacon for a fraction of the cost of even the cheapest, nastiest tasting unhappy pig bacon available.  You can also control the levels of salt – Danny has high blood pressure Read More »

Delicious pork au feu recipe. Slow cooker/crock pot recipe.

Pork pot au feu

  Whenever I go abroad to a country with a warmer climate than the UK, I buy herbs to bring home. Somehow these are better than the ones available in the UK – perhaps the drying methods are better? I have an oregano herb mix that I bought in Crete over 11 years ago. It Read More »

Belly of pork roasted on a nest of tomatillos recipe. Halogen oven/conventional oven recipe

Making a foil nest for this dish

  Tomatillos are extremely easy to grow. They are great for making salsas and sauces and they freeze well. They also do not get blight so it’s always worth growing a couple of plants if you have a greenhouse or conservatory to get some tomatoey tangy flavour if your tomato crops fail. You do need Read More »

Belly of pork roasted with mandarin slices recipe. Halogen and conventional oven recipe.

Belly of pork baked with mandarin slices with root vegetables

  I think that this could be called my Mandarin period. I’ve fallen in love with this fruit. The round glass bowl on the kitchen table is filled with mandarins and lemons and I’m addicted. Bizarrely the Min Pins have discovered this tart and delicious gem too. A segment is prized and even the skin Read More »

Tasty Baked sausages, bacon and flageolet beans recipe

The beans that came in from the cold

  I’ve never been keen on beans, definitely was not one of the Beans means Heinz fans as a child. Even the recent change to Beanz hasn’t tempted me. In fact I was so out of the whole world of beans as a teenager that I didn’t even understand the flatulence jokes in Blazing Saddles. Read More »

Celia’s baked pork chops with crackling squares

Photo: Pork chop with crackling squares

I’ve come rapidly to the conclusion that Celia – of Purple Podded Peas fame  – is an excellent and intuitive cook. And Danny wholeheartedly agreed when he tasted her recipe. “Wow, this dish is exceptional,,” he said, as he guzzled his chunky Old Spot pork chop. “The idea of cooking the crackling separately in small Read More »

Slow baked belly of pork with green tomatoes, coriander and lime recipe

Photo: Belly of pork with green tomatoes

  We have never had so many green tomatoes knocking about the house. Some will turn red eventually but I decided to try cooking with some green ones. Their flavour improves with long slow cooking so combining them with a small joint of belly of pork would make a sumptuous meal for two. The result Read More »

Delicious pork steaks recipe: baked with wild plum jelly and blackcurrants

Photo: Blackcurrants

However careful I am about constructing my fruit cages a hungry bird or twenty always seems to crack the code and get in. One year one of our fruit cages was constructed with high security in mind – nothing apart from me could get in or out and it was such a struggle to access that I Read More »

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