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Next time you are looking for something to make for dinner with friends, I HIGHLY recommend David Chang’s Bo Ssam. It’s perfectly caramelized slow-roasted pork, served with lettuce, rice, kimchi and two knock-your-socks-off sauces, one garlic scallion and another with a Korean chili-paste base. And the oysters are a fun touch, if you live in a place they are easy to source.
Since reading about the Bo Ssam Miracle in the New York Times a few weeks ago, I have made it twice for friends and dreamed about it many times more. It makes ideal dinner-party food – super easy but appears much more complicated, and as an added bonus pork butt is pretty inexpensive.
The only thing I add to the menu is sauteed chinese broccoli with garlic just to have a bit more veg.
As for drinks, while I love wine and cocktails (and think you may definitely want 1 or 2 during apps), I think this dinner is perfectly suited for {lots of} ice cold beer. We had a fun mix of Singha, Tsingtao, Chang, Lucky Budda, Sapporo – but really just go with your fave. With that, and lots of napkins, you are set.
If spring has sprung for you anything like it has in San Francisco, I would recommend calling up your friends and having an impromptu dinner party tonight! And maybe have platters around for lettuce wraps.
This version is a simple adaptation of an old Gourmet recipe, Cellophane-Noodle Salad with Roast Pork. I first made it a few years ago, and when ripe mangos popped up in the market here, I knew it needed to be on the menu again soon.
This time, I used brown rice noodles instead of the cellophane (or mung bean) and loved the change. A mandoline makes quick work of all the chopping, but I have done it by hand as well, and it’s really not too bad. Also, to fit the warm weather, I grilled the pork this time — and didn’t miss turning on the oven.
The sweet, spicy, crunchy and cool combo is just perfect – and the hands on makes for a fun presentation. It also goes particualrly well with a few cold beers!
Hope you have a great weekend and there is some sunshine your way!
Please tell me I am not alone in the fact that some days (weeks) you just don’t want to cook. And I don’t mean, just through together a quick pasta or frittata and not spend time cooking, I mean if I have to go in the kitchen for anything more than water I might scream.
Thankfully there are 1,000,001 options here for amazing food, so it’s not like we have to starve or anything. And what is even better, 1,001 of those options deliver. Which means that I can eat what I want without cooking while on the comfort of my couch with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution (maybe not what he had in mind … oh the irony).
What is even better is when you realize you live in the delivery zone for Porchetta.
I have been thinking about chile verde since well before the Super Bowl. Like drawing a grid on a poster board and paying $1 per square, there is something about a spicy pot of pork and salsa simmering on the stove that is synonymous to me with that January (or rather February now) Sunday.
So I was planning to make this in DC at a friend’s house – they just moved East and we were going to help them get settled and welcome them to the cold. The perfect time for chile verde (especially as it pairs particularly well with beer – a requirement on Super Bowl Sunday). But then there was that silly Snowpocalypse, and we cancelled the trip. I wasn’t ready to be stuck on a bus for any extra time, regardless of wireless internet, power plugs and extra leg room.
And once you start thinking about chile verde, you can’t just let the feeling pass. You really need to make it. My only mistake was waiting a few weeks.
Apparently when we say goodbye to summer, it really goes. It is now time for sweaters, and scarves and umbrellas (well, that’s not too different from summer). For cozying up and, well, eating!
With fall in the air, a yummy warm dinner seemed like the perfect way to ward off the chill. While I was out, I decided to pop in the store and see what looked good. I had apples and brussels sprouts in my basket before I even saw how great the pork looked. Seeing as how pork milanese (also known as panko pork or panko chicken in these parts) is one of my staples that I haven’t made since the move, I was already humming.
