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I don’t know where\u00a0the idea\u00a0for this dinner actually started in my head, but somewhere near the beginning I spotted a very neat package of a small cut of pork belly in the Flying Pigs stall at the Greenmarket. Roughly a week later I picked out a similar one to take home.<\/p>\n
Then I waited for a cold weekend day when we would both enjoy the aroma of something roasting for hours in\u00a0our old oven. Years ago, inside my ancient Rhode Island house, I\u00a0would have been able to offer the full winter treatment: I’d have a wood fire\u00a0(or\u00a0two)\u00a0burning while the oven did its work. Also, this particular\u00a0piece, for only 2, was small, so it\u00a0could give us barely an hour and a half of its perfume, but\u00a0they were good\u00a0moments while\u00a0they lasted.<\/p>\n
There are a surprising number of suggestions for cooking the perfect Schweinebauch<\/em><\/a>, or pork belly<\/a>, on line, but none in the\u00a04 or 5 English-language German cooking books I own, which probably says more about\u00a0pork belly being a\u00a0vogue than its fundamental importance in German cookery.<\/p>\n In the end I found inspiration in a pretty simple recipe<\/a>\u00a0on an Australian site. I\u00a0made some changes, and I had to guess about the cooking time, since I had not seen a discussion, there or anywhere else, of a belly weighing as little as 14 and a half ounces, but Barry and I were very, very happy with the results.<\/p>\n There were also potato dumplings, and a bit of red kale, or what I’ll translate as\u00a0\u201aRussischer Roter\u2018 Kohl<\/a>.<\/p>\n I don’t know where\u00a0the idea\u00a0for this dinner actually started in my head, but somewhere near the beginning I spotted a very neat package of a small cut of pork belly in the Flying Pigs stall at the Greenmarket. Roughly a week later I picked out a similar one to take home. Then I waited for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Roter_Federkohl.jpg\")
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