Friday 13 March 2015

Pork with sour cream and mushrooms: mystery box madness


I feel a bit strange about my dish for this week's I Heart Cooking Clubs "Mystery Box Madness" challenge. You see, it's a pork dish. Normally a pork dish wouldn't make me feel remotely strange, but this week our featured cook, Diana Henry, released a book of chicken recipes. She invited me to the launch party, which was the most fun I've had in ages, but it just compounds the weirdness of not making a chicken dish this week...
Dodgy phone pic of the cover - hence cutting her name off
The book is lovely, my copy arrived yesterday, but I had already made this dish featuring three of the challenge ingredients (bacon, mushrooms and thyme - with a bonus of substituting a leek for the onion). It's Diana's recipe for rabbit with sour cream and dried wild mushrooms, from Roast Figs Sugar Snow, but I used pork tenderloin. It's not that I am squeamish about bunny - I enjoy it when other people cook it - it's just that I have had very mixed results cooking it myself. I wanted something dependably delicious. And this was. We had it with pappardelle and some greens and it was wonderful.

6 comments:

Zosia said...

That pork ragu looks scrumptious! Very nice use of the mystery box ingredients!

kitchen flavours said...

Such a delicious plate of pasta! I think I would enjoy it with pork too instead of bunny. And I'm so jealous of you meeting with Diana Henry! How cool is that!! I love chicken recipes and will be getting her latest book soon!

Susan Lindquist said...

OMG! Looks wonderful! I haven't seen this Diana Henry book! A new one? She does do great things with chicken!

grace said...

i've never eaten rabbit, though i just read an article stating it's probably the most bang-for-your-buck protein available. i, too, would still stick with pork. :)

Deb in Hawaii said...

Yep, totally jealous! But very happy for you that you got such a cool and fun opportunity. ;-) This looks delicious--great use of the MBM ingredients!

TeaLady said...

YUM!! Looks great. I have a rabbit in the freezer so I will have to try this with the hare!!

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