Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Fettuccine alla "Pork and Beans"




Hello all, this will be my first food post so I hope y'all enjoy it.

I decided to make dinner for my dad, bro and I after my dad received his grocery delivery from Quality Foods. For some reason he ordered some smoked pork jowls, so I decided to make a pasta dish with some of the jowls as well as some ground pork, romano beans and some other items. I started by rendering out the fat of the jowls and then following that up with some roughly diced red onion. After the onions and the jowls got acquainted enough I added some garlic and fennel seeds and let it all sweat together for a little longer. The heat was then cranked up and I added the ground pork and got that all browned off. Finally I added some canned roma tomatoes and some canned romano beans and let that simmer for a bit to develop flavour and or thicken it up slightly.


This is the "Pork and Beans" sauce simmering away.


I decided to serve it with fettuccine because it was the widest long pasta that we had available in the cupboard. This is a pic of me loading up my bowl of pasta with some Parmigiano-Reggiano.

And here is the final, delicious product of my slaving in the kitchen (not really, I was only doing actual kitchen work for about 20 minutes!). In the end it was quite delicious and both my dad and brother liked it, not like that is a surprise as my dad will pretty much eat anything.

That concludes my first "meaty" post, so to speak. I hope you all enjoyed it and I will post again soon.

Until next time.

Eli

First Post

So..Umm..Yeah. This is my first blog post ever, so bear with me if it is a bit drab or boring. The main reason for me starting this blog is so that I have a place to present the plethora of ideas that float around in my head ,as well as a place to vent about things in general. As the title of my blog may suggest I consider myself a pretty nerdy person, but I am first and foremost a cook and lover of food. So if you are at all interested in culinary dabblings, epicurean expeditions, and/or of course nerdy goodness then I hope that you will enjoy my ramblings.

With that said, I now embark on a TasteFull voyage of discovery around the seven seas of the blogosphere.

Until next time.

Eli