Archive for the 'Pork' Category

Roscoe’s Ultimate Pork Chop Sandwich

Ingredients:
Leftover pork chops
Leftover kielbasa
Cheese (Swiss or Provolone)
pickle
red cabbage or cole slaw
mustard
A good roll
What’s The Ultimate?
Hey, a Pork Chop Sandwich can be as easy as a pork chop between two slices of bread. It gets better incrementally as you add mustard, cheese, pickle, dressing of some kind, maybe cole slaw, or, in the case of Roscoe’s [...]

Chili Nachos

Ingredients:
Leftover chili – warm
Tortilla chips
Cheese – pepper jack and your favorite, grated or chopped (about 1/2 lb total, more if you like)
Green onions – chopped
Got Chili?
You made the chili just the way you like it, and everyone raved, and now you’ve got some left over. The heavy lifting is done, you’ve already got the spices [...]

White Bean and Italian Sausage Soup

Ingredients:
Italian Sausage – 2 lbs., casing removed
White beans – 1 bag dried; Navy or cannellini (as long as they’re white)
Stock – 8-10 cups, make your own or canned, beef or chicken
Celery – 2 stalks, chopped
Red pepper – chopped
Red onion – chopped or sliced
2-3 carrots – chopped
White wine
Worcestershire, Cholula, seasonings: salt, pepper, oregano, basil
A Meal In [...]

More Carnitas Tacos: With Black Beans

Ingredients:
Pulled Pork
Can Black Beans
Red onion
Red pepper
Spicy Brown Mustard
Tortillas – Corn or flour, or both
Pepper Jack Cheese
Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula
Spices
Green onion
Cilantro
Salsa
You Just Can’t Get Enough Pulled Pork
Pork Butts went on sale again and you had no choice, you had to buy a couple. Totally understandable (at $.97 a pound, you ought to fill a truck with [...]

Roscoe’s Sweet Potato Kielbasa Soup

Ingredients:
2 links smoked Kielbasa – chopped
8 (or so) medium sweet potatoes – diced medium (1/2 in.)
1 big red onion, chopped
1 red pepper – chopped
garlic – as much as you like (4-6 cloves)
stock – chicken or beef, 8-10 cups
Worcestershire
Cholula
wine – whatever you’re drinking while you cook
Salt, pepper, cayenne
It’s Soup Weather Again
Fall: Roscoe’s favorite time of year. [...]

Roscoe’s Ultimate Rib Sandwich

Ingredients:
Rib meat – off the bone
Cole slaw
BBQ sauce
Mustard – yellow, brown, or both
Good Rolls
Pickle
You don’t Have To Wait For Leftovers
Like that’ll ever happen. You can’t say “ribs” and “leftovers” in the same sentence, unless you’re in some parallel universe. So you’d better make the sandwich when they come off the grill.
Fallin’ Off The Bone
Yeah, yeah, [...]

Roscoe’s Pulled Pork (Carnitas) Tacos

Carnitas Means Pork
Okay, you knew that. And you also know how to roast or smoke (for those of you who have smokers) a pork butt and turn it into that most delicious and succulent dish we call PULLED PORK. And when it’s done, and you’ve pulled it and sauced it to perfection, and certainly tasted [...]

Ana’s Caldo Gallego

However You Translate, It Means Bean Soup
And it is some kind of good. Full of beans and chorizo and ham hock and a whole bunch of other Cuban stuff that’s nothing but flavor.
It’s Good To Have Relatives
Ana Z is married to Roscoe’s cousin, the Z-Man, they live in Miami. Ana Z’s mother translated from her [...]