This is a pork recipe I invented one evening when I wanted to cook something new, but quickly.
Thin slices of lonza [loin] or pork escalopes
olive oil
fresh herbs of your choice
a few pink peppercorns, some chilli flakes and coarse seasalt
orange slices to garnish
Put the herbs - I used fresh thyme, sage and rosemary - in a pestle and mortar with the peppercorns and other seasoning and whack them all round a bit. Put the herb mixture on a plate and quicly pass the pork slices through it, one by one, on both sides. Heat a little olive oil - no more than 1 tablesp - on a griddle pan and cook the pork slices. They'll only take a minute or so on each side.
Put on a serving plate, garnish and serve immediately.
I served this with a salad of rocket and oranges which needs only olive oil.
Pastieri and Cassata
Last night I was wondering what to have for supper when the doorbell rang and it was my student Salvo the postman bearing gifts of food! His wife had made me some meat pastieri and a traditional cassata.
My friend Katia from loveSicily has a pastieri recipe here and a cassata one here.
Grazie, Salvo e la signora Salvo!
