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Stir-Fried Pork With Hoisin Sauce

This is another great recipe from Kylie Kwong’s book, Simple Chinese Cooking. The sauce is savory and sweet. It is similar to the sauce in the stir-fried chicken with honey and ginger recipe, except without the ginger. There is a trick to being able to slice the pork thin. If you stick it in the […]
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Cochon 555: Washington, DC

5 pigs, 5 chefs, 5 wineries and 1 cause. All set in a town that knows a little bit about pork…One event will forever tie them together! <Queue dramatic music> Cochon 555! This was a great event that we were fortunate enough to attend, thanks to Foodbuzz! Cochon 555 was put together by Taste Network […]
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Salt Baked Pork Loin

The idea of roasting a pork loin in 5 lbs of salt may seem a little crazy, and that is because it is. The whole concept seems like it would doom the pork to be an over-salted piece of jerky. Amazingly though, it actually works! Salt roasting is actually a pretty versatile technique which would […]
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Green Chile Pork Posole

I’m not even going to pretend like I’ve heard of Posole before, but a quick Google search tells me that it’s a traditional Mexican stew. This recipe is from bon appetit (April), which Luke picked up in the airport before one of his recent flights. We liked the ingredients and had a pound of pork […]
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Roast Pork Tenderloin

I have been meaning to post this dish for a while, but the end of summer lazys got hold of me. There are so many reason to like this dish: Pork tenderloins are relatively cheap (and always seem to be on sale) The leftovers are great It is a snap to make I rolled my […]
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Taste of Chicago (in DC!)

Carolyn scored big last night and got us tickets to the Taste of Chicago preview held at the Library of Congress in DC. First off, the Library of Congress is a beautiful building. If you are ever in DC you owe it to yourself to take a tour. Ok, now on to the food! The […]
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