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