Category: Pork

5th March 2018

Mounjetado/Mongetado – cassoulet in Ariège

There are a lot of recipes for cassoulet here in the southwest of France. Castelnaudary, Carcassonne or Toulouse fight for the crown of the best recipe or the most original one. Cassoulet is a hearty dish and meant for winter, but restaurants here serve it to tourists in the summer when a lighter diet may be called for. The origin of the dish goes far […]

Main dish Pork

18th January 2016

Babi Pangang, a stowaway recipe for spicy roasted pork belly

Some recipes live a life of their own and obtain fame in a country far away from where a dish is supposed to have originated. So it is with Babi pangang, a famous dish in the Netherlands widely available in Chinese and Indonesian restaurants. In itself, the name Babi panggang is Malay for roasted pig. In Indonesia, the people are for almost 90 per cent […]

Main dish Pork Potatoes Vegetables

14th December 2015

Pork chops with celery and potato purée

Winter is the season for root vegetables like the celery, as well as the truffle. Celery is inexpensive while truffles are rather expensive, but there are ways to overcome this and add a bit of truffle flavour to a dish with truffle oil. So I did here, I cooked a chopped-up celery with six potatoes, then blended that with some stock, reheated it and added […]

Main dish Pork Vegetables

19th June 2014

Grilled pork chops with chorizo on a bed of endives

A tasty meal does not need to be complicated. Endives are in season, it is a healthy vegetable with a bitter taste and as a standalone it is not appreciated by many. In the Netherlands, they present the endives rolled into a slice of ham and with a molten cheese sauce. That tastes good but adds fat.

Fish Pork Vegetables

18th March 2014

Cod, cabbage and chorizo

The other day the fishmonger’s had cod on sale, nice white chunks of cod loin fillet which are called “dos de cabillaud” here (cod’s back). The greengrocer’s was still in winter mode and had nice cabbages of which a took a green one. But because both the cod and cabbage can be bland in taste, I also bought a chunk of chorizo sausage.

Main dish Pork

9th August 2013

Spareribs with a garlic and chilli sauce

On our village market there is a stall of a butcher specialising in pork. The Landsmann family comes form the east of France, where many people live with German-sounding names due to the changing position of the borders over the centuries. One of his best-selling products is ‘travers de porc’; a cut of ribs with a chunk of filet attached. I grill it on the […]

Pork Vegetables

6th March 2013

Dandelion salad with pork chops

Yes, the French even eat flower leaves, as do ruminants, and they have a good reason because it contains many valuable nutrients. I guess the taste was acquired by foragers in times of poverty and famine but even in our times of abundance and heavy diets the leaves are wonderful for the body. The name stems from ‘Dents de Lion’, lions teeth, due to the […]

Main dish Pork

10th December 2012

Rack of pork with two apples, lemon grass and ginger

A lovely Sunday lunch or dinner dish, combining hearty pork meat with apples and adding an Asian touch. Because of the apples, I could not resist using some cider. Ingredients 500 grammes of boned rack of pork (or shoulder) tied up as a roast Four Granny Smith apples Four Boskoop apples Two sticks of lemon grass Five cm of fresh ginger A bottle of cider […]