Pork recipes

Pork loin chops browned and braised with mirepoix, white wine, and tomato paste, then sauced with a strained sour cream, Dijon mustard, and caper finish. Bistro-style elegance in an hour.

This authentic French Canadian recipe is a classic belly warmer and perfect for a cold day. Split-pea soup with a ham bone, ham hock or salt pork. Make it a vegetarian split-pea soup by leaving out the ham bone and using vegetable stock instead of water.

Cincinnati's iconic chili simmers with warm spices like cinnamon, allspice, and cocoa powder, creating a Greek-influenced meat sauce perfect for ladling over spaghetti.

Chili N'Awlins is a New Orleans-style beef and pork chili with green chiles, oregano, and a Cajun edge. Topped with corn chips, sharp cheddar, and shredded lettuce for a hearty crowd-feeder.

Country Cork Irish stew with lamb rib chops, cabbage, leeks, potatoes, and peas simmered with a bouquet garni of thyme, rosemary, and bay leaf. A hearty one-pot supper from County Cork.

New Orleans' most popular sausage, a type of country sausage made with pork, or pork and beef. It's not really smoked, but has a fine smokey flavor that makes it an ideal seasoning meat for our favorite bean dishes, gumbos, and jambalayas. We also like it pan grilled as a breakfast or dinner sausage.

Packed with flavor utilizing a myriad of spices and seasonings this garlic Andouille sausage is a winner.

Peppered farmhouse pate with pork shoulder, liver, veal, green peppercorns, and brandy, wrapped in stretched bacon and baked in a water bath. A rustic French-style terrine for entertaining.

Try something new for dinner with this succulent dish made with ground pork, ground lamb and pecorino-romano cheese.

Crusty Pennsylvania Dutch scrapple from scratch: pork ribs and liver simmered with sage, thyme, and cayenne, then bound with coarse cornmeal, set in pans, sliced and pan-fried for breakfast.

Homemade Italian pepper sausage with coarse ground pork, salt pork, fennel, paprika, red pepper flakes, and red wine stuffed into natural hog casings.

Potée Auvergnate is the rustic French farmhouse stew of cabbage, beans, potatoes, and three kinds of pork (bacon, sausage, smoked chops) slow-braised together in one pot. Hearty mountain cooking from central France.

Mahalia Jackson's okra gumbo, a soulful Louisiana feast of crab, shrimp, beef, ham, sausage, and chicken in a tomato-okra base, built on a from-scratch shrimp-shell broth. Big-batch comfort, ladled over rice.

Cajun dirty rice with ground chicken gizzards, livers, and pork cooked in the holy trinity with Tabasco, cumin, and paprika. Authentic bayou flavor in every forkful.

Pork sausage with tripe and chitterlings and no less than 10 spices and even more seasonings.

Andouille was a great favorite in nineteenth-century New Orleans. This thick Cajun sausage is made with lean pork and pork fat and lots of garlic. Sliced about 1/2 inch thick and greilled, it makes a delightful appetizer. It is also used in a superb oyster and andouille gumbo poplular in Laplace, a Cajun town about 30 miles fromNew Orleans that calls itself the Andouille Capital of the World.