Finally found a delicious recipe over at Stefan’s Gourmet Blog for Pork Carnitas that turned out marvelously for a dinner party we had the other night. Everyone of our guests commented how juicy and tender the pork was. Winner! Due to laziness of not wanting to make our own pork stock in Stefan’s original recipe, we substituted chicken stock instead and the dish didn’t seem to miss a beat. …
When I was a kid, the thing that I looked forward to the most on the weekends was my mom’s soft-boiled eggs on toast. It consisted of a seemingly perfect soft boiled egg (a runny yolk, yet firm white), slightly salted on top of a buttered slice of toast. …
If you’ve ever been to a Korean BBQ restaurant, you’ll remember this cut of meat, and remember it fondly. If flaken style ribs were an 80’s supermodel, they’d be Jill Goodacre: not everybody knows about them, but they’re really damned awesome (and married to Harry Connick, Jr?). Sorry for the tortured metaphor. …
Sometimes when you’re making dinner, you just make too much. This is the case when I made the Sous Vide Country Style Pork Ribs with Dijon Sauce last week. We had enough for dinner. And, lunch the next day. And, we still had half of the lot left. What to do? …
Let me start by saying
DO NOT BOTHER MAKING SOUS VIDE CARAMELIZED ONIONS!
After 18 hours, it still took me an additional 45 minutes of cooking the onions in the pan to give them a good flavor. In that amount of time, I could have made them the traditional route. This recipe is here for others to critique and improve upon. Also, I spent the time to record the process and make a video out of it… so you have to read and watch it now …
Finally, a sous vide pork dish that my wife liked. I’ve had a couple of duds with pork… which was very surprising to me given how much I love the stuff. But, after some soul-searching and taste testing, I decided that I was just being too light on the salt. I upped the amount of salt I was using, and it worked like a charm …