There’s something about ribs that brings out the Neanderthal in me. In fact, when I think about it all meat on the bone that you are required to eat using hands and ripping brings out the Neanderthal in me. I stop using my words and communicate in a series of grunts and whistles punctuated with… Read More Baby Backs

This is about as ‘old school’ as you can get and it’s a dish I have resisted making for ages simply because I wasn’t convinced I could do it justice. I’ve had Ham hock in many forms in many places – I love it as a terrine with pickles and a good bread but the… Read More Slow cooked Ham Hock

  Fried Funkiness I’ve eaten pork Chops/Cutlets all  my life, usually grill, roasted or fried with spuds and a regulation veg…fair enough, nothing wild there. After having this dish I’ll never really be able to do a ‘standard’ pork chop again! After a really hard and heavy day swimming in the Ionian Sea last week,… Read More Pork Cutletta, Lime and CHIPS!

Ya reckon if Jesus took a totally different path and instead of martyrdom he decided on dairy products that he would have opened a cheese shop and called it……………..Cheeses Christ? Personally, I’d like to think so. So. Hungarian food. My neighbour Anita is from Budapest and she’s a gorgeous nutter, she gave me a kilo… Read More Hungarian style Pork steak with Chili Butter Beans

I love beans. Chips beans and sausages played an integral part of my late teenage years mucking around in Donegal with reprobate mates of mine. This is something of a development of that – the adult version I suppose and instead of the old one being followed by 10 cans of Dutch Gold this goes… Read More Pork chop, Spicy bean stew and Lime Slaw