Belly Pork Extrordinaire

[Sqad]

The old lady has produced yet another gastronomical delight.

I don't cook...she does.

Belly pork, strips cut into chunks. Put into a slow cooker with vegetables including fennel, and fennel is essential. Slow cooked for 6 hours and served with mashed potatoes and a Ribero del Duero red.....Protos Reserve 2006 not my favourite but does the trick.

Spanish food is not sophisticated and is basically for the peasants......like wot i am, but the above, with crust bread.....beats all the French poncey food.

[237SJ]

Belly pork - that`s what my Dad used to call Fat Bacon (Devon name for it, I believe). Or my name for it - Heart Attack On A Plate. Still, a little of what you fancy does you good :-)

[wolf63]

I had toast with Primula cheese (squeezed from a tube) for lunch. Yours sounds a little better.

I have to say that mashed potatoes are yummy with sausages.

W☺lf ~ Scottish peasant and cat slave.

[carrust]

A bit of black pudding chucked in would be nice as well. With some good ale to wash it down.

[Sqad]

LOL........I know about " a little of what you fancy".............;-)

[Sqad]

Ooops! 237 ...forgot to say........she cut off the fat.....;-)

Carrust.....certainly with a serving wench with big exposed .........

[jno]

she cut off the fat

and served it as a side dish?

[Sqad]

jno....LOL.......LOL.....

[carrust]

You never fail to get some lust in your posts sqad LOL

[sandyRoe]

Jack Sprat would eat no fat...

[237SJ]

Sounds quite nice without the fat. Were the fennel bulbs sliced? I might chuck a drop of white wine in the slow cooker if I did it.

[Obiter]

Much of French cuisine is also peasant-orientated. It only becomes poncy when served in pretentious restaurants at grossly inflated prices.

[stuey]

Sqad, try this with the "old lady": Hi the hither, wench; I would assuage my thirst with a flagon of thy finest wine, and never tarry or a pox be upon thee.

[Sqad]

Carrust....don't lets joke about a serious subject.

Good simple food, well cooked, red wine of your choice (mine is either American Napa valley or Del Duero) a few laughs and anecdotes(they don't have to be true) and a woman who smells nice and has a cleft to admire,

Paradise.

[Sqad]

237......just checked......no white wine but the fennel bulbs were sliced.

Few laughs and stories over dinner for two with you......would do me fine.

[237SJ]

I can`t stand poncey food - that`s why I`d never go to any of those so called sophisticated restaurants where your gravy or sauce is smeared around the plate in a little squiggle and it`s been fingered to high hell so that it sits in exactly the right place on the plate.

[pastafreak]

I adore slow cooked belly pork...and I do eat some of the fat. That's what pork is all about.

[Sqad]

pasta^^^^ LOL...true.

But Mrs sqad thinks that she is looking after my health.....;-)

[Obiter]

"...and I do eat some of the fat. That's what pork is all about".

Couldn't have put it better myself (not forgetting the crackling).