For the English it is very difficult to find a good British sausage in America…so at our house we make our own. A quick trip to Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe in nearby West Springfield, Massachusetts provided us with pork and casings. Pork shoulder or Butt as it is known here has about the […]
Chicken, Pork, Beef & Other Meats
Berkshire Pork Roasted with Potato, Kale & Fall Apple Sauce
There is something special about a Sunday roast lunch. With a lovely piece of Berkshire pork and some seasonal apples we made a real fall comfort meal. The Berkshire pig breed is one of the oldest in England and comes from the part of England around Wantage, Goring and […]
Farro Salad with Organic Goji Berries & Marinated Chicken Wings
With so many great grains to pick from these days it is hard to make up our minds sometime about what we want to eat. We had not had much exposure to farro until the last couple of years when we began to see it at various restaurants. It is one of the […]
Pan Seared Veal with Roasted Garlic & Fava Beans
Veal. You either love it, hate it, love it but have ethical issues with it or hate it and have ethical issues with it…or maybe you are indifferent to it… but personally I struggle a bit. Where we live there are plenty of farms that provide chemical free veal that has been treated […]
Flank Steak with Garden Herbs & Soy
On a hot summer’s night who wants to heat up the house by cooking inside? Not us. We opt to cook on the grill. We also crave easy (sometimes)….and thought what better than a piece of flank steak eaten right off the cutting board? Flank steak is a very tasty but fairly reasonably priced cut […]
Duck Liver Pate Meatballs
So every now and then something incredible happens. We have been so busy. Getting a food blog done each night has been a bit of a stretch this last week and today we were feeling fairly tapped out….and then as if it were meant to be….inspiration! One of us is a huge (HUGE) […]
Scotch Eggs with Black Pudding
What would you do if you came home with a fabulous basket of organic, farm fresh eggs from the farmer’s market? I could think of lots of things, but the other person in this equation had one thing on his mind…the countertop deep fryer he purchased last week and was itching to use. […]
Artichokes with Polenta & Lamb
Last night there was a huge storm coming our way. We were sitting on our screened porch and the temperature began to drop (lots!) and the winds picked up so much that we needed to move the furniture to the sides and head inside. It was the perfect summer night for something comfort food […]