Tag: guanciale

Daring Eat Bakers Local Challenge: Pizza

Challenge mash-up time! Today is posting day for the October Daring Bakers Challenge AND my Eat Local Challenge update. As I feared, I spent a lot of the past week traveling and eating at friends houses and parties, but...

One Local Summer #9: Potato Guanciale "Pizza"

My favorite unexpected pizza* topping is potato. Unlike the carb-fest of pasta on pizza, the earthy flavor of the potato and its soft bite can add another dimension to a suitably thin-crusted pie. My favorite unexpected pizza is the #4...

Pasta Cabonara

I have always loved pasta carbona, starting back when my mom made it with bacon and a cooked egg and cheese sauce (remember, foodies, that this was during the Salmonella scare, a movement that had a much larger effect...

Guanciale Taste Test

Today I put the guanciale to its first test. While guanciale's rich flavor is generally best-suited to a foundational role in a dish like pasta all'amatriciana or carbonara, I decided to sauté the guanciale alone and serve it over...

Guanciale, Part 1

About a month ago, I headed down into our basement and strung two pieces of salted pork from the ceiling. I jerry-rigged a cardboard canopy to protect them from ceiling dirt and paint chips, and tilted the dehumidifier to provide...