This charmingly candid photograph shows the chiles en nogada that I made for a backyard pot-luck last month. Chiles en nogada are in essence peppers stuffed with pork and fruit, covered in a walnut cream sauce and pomegranate seeds. The recipe is said to be almost 200 years old, comes from an area just southeast [...]
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Mexican chiles en nogada (sin poblanos)
Posted in Central America, Pork, tagged egg-free, gluten-free, Mexican Independence Day, Mexico, peanut-free, puebla on 8 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shanghai ribs, fast and curvy
Posted in China, Pork, tagged baby back ribs, egg-free, gluten-free, peanut-free, Shanghai, stirfry, sweet-and-sour on 23 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a stack of black sticky sweet-and-sour ribs, not terribly different from those in the buffet tray. Proper Shanghai ribs would be short and straight, but mine are long and curvaceous tonight. I lacked the foresight to have them them sawed at the butcher’s, and I am irrationally scared of my whop-ass Chinese cleaver. [...]
Belarusian Pork and Potato Pie
Posted in Eastern Europe, Pork, tagged , Belarus, corn-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free, peanut-free, potato babka, soy-free on 22 November 2007 | 6 Comments »
The indigenous name of this one is a bit confusing. Before researching Belarusian food I thought that a babka was always a bread-type dessert, but in Belarus it also refers to a meat pie with a potato crust, remarkably similar in taste to the Quebecois tourtière. In fact, if I needed to make a gluten-free [...]
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