Pork & Lamb Recipes

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    Spaghetti alla Gricia

    The key ingredient in Spaghetti alla Gricia is guanciale, cured pork jowl. Guanciale is also traditionally used in the classic Roman Pasta dishes, Bucatini all’Amatriciana and Spaghetti alla Carbonara. Since guanciale is not easy to find outside of Rome and the Lazio region in Italy, and until recently impossible here in the U.S., substituting pancetta…

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    Rack Of Lamb

    I made this Rack of Lamb paired with Risotto Milanese as part of a Valentines Day dinner for my wife, Sandy. I discussed making it and possibly featuring it here to some co-workers during lunch the week before. Suprisingly, one of them, Mark said he didn’t think Rack of Lamb was a good Valentines Day…

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    Pork Chops with Peppers

    There may not seem like a lot to this dish, but boy is it tasty. Pork chops with vinegar peppers is an old Italian stand-by. For a different variation on this dish you can home fry some potatoes and put them on top. Serves 2 4 center cut pork chops 1/4 cup olive oil 6…

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    Porchetta

    In Italy, Porchetta is a deboned pig, stuffed and rolled, and there are many versions depending on the region. I wanted to make Porchetta, but was not quite up to deboning and stuffing a pig, so I decided to do what you might consider “Porchetta Lite”. After doing some searching through recipe books and on…

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    Lamb Chops Scottadito

    In Italian the word scottadito means burned fingers. This dish is named scottadito because the lamb chops are so delicious that you can’t resist eating them sizzling hot, straight from the grill and burning your fingers.   Recommended for This Recipe: Note: This post contains affiliate links.