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Zippylip
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Why the cannolo shell has not spread beyond its roots as an open ended deep fried Italian cream filled dessert tube to include a giant bread version packed with pork & cheese probably keeps you up at night, me too :laugh:, just another sign of a world gone mad I suppose.
Porchetta (Italian pork roast) can be done with any part of the hog, I used a butt today. To make, cut multiple slits in the butt & jam in a mixture of whole garlic, rosemary, fennel seeds & olive oil, then rub down the outside with more olive oil & season generously with salt & pepper, place in a dry coverable pan & dial the egg to mad max:
Cook uncovered (clean burning/smokeless) at 400 for an hour, flip, go a little while longer till you have some color on all sides, then add water, a little more rosemary & fennel, some whole stalks of celery, flat leaf parsley & more cloves of garlic, cover, drop the temp to 350 & let it go until it’s done (this one took about 7 hours to get to 200 internal):
Nice & cooled down now for pulling:
Remove the celery & some of the parsley from the juice:
Then add the shredded pork back in. The beauty of this dish is that it can be kept all day long at a low temp in the juice. It’s usually served dripping in the juice on hard Italian rolls, absolutely delicious. In Philly this is nearly as common as the cheesesteak:
For the cannolo tubes:
1) Begin with one standard batch of pizza dough & cut into 4 equal pieces – let rise.
2) You’ll need a large dowel of some sort (I used the cardboard tube from a roll of fabric my wife was storing in the garage :ermm: ).
3) Remove fabric, cut the tube into equal lengths with a hacksaw (aint no turning back now);
4) Wrap in foil to keep them from bursting into flames. You may want to do this in the garage to avoid detection;
5) Slither back into the house like the bad man that you are, wrap the dough around the dowels, pinching at the meeting point to hold it together;
6) Brush with olive oil for flavor & color;
7) Hope the whole thing goes to plan so we can all laugh about it later
Tubes cut down:
We’ll find someplace to put that:
Foiled up & ready to go:
Dough is on & to the egg at 500:
When done, remove the dowels & let cool
Garlic fry some broccoli rabe:
Stuff the tubes with shredded porchetta (said ‘porrr-kate-ahh’), broccoli rabe & grated extra sharp provolone*
* It is very important to use the best sharp (preferably imported) provolone, none of that supermarket ‘slicing’ provolone that doesn’t taste like anything – the porchetta & broccoli rabe are very powerful flavors & you need a real dego cheese with enough backbone to stand up & be recognized:
please enjoy a fine selection from the who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6-3rnD7FSc
Porchetta (Italian pork roast) can be done with any part of the hog, I used a butt today. To make, cut multiple slits in the butt & jam in a mixture of whole garlic, rosemary, fennel seeds & olive oil, then rub down the outside with more olive oil & season generously with salt & pepper, place in a dry coverable pan & dial the egg to mad max:
Cook uncovered (clean burning/smokeless) at 400 for an hour, flip, go a little while longer till you have some color on all sides, then add water, a little more rosemary & fennel, some whole stalks of celery, flat leaf parsley & more cloves of garlic, cover, drop the temp to 350 & let it go until it’s done (this one took about 7 hours to get to 200 internal):
Nice & cooled down now for pulling:
Remove the celery & some of the parsley from the juice:
Then add the shredded pork back in. The beauty of this dish is that it can be kept all day long at a low temp in the juice. It’s usually served dripping in the juice on hard Italian rolls, absolutely delicious. In Philly this is nearly as common as the cheesesteak:
For the cannolo tubes:
1) Begin with one standard batch of pizza dough & cut into 4 equal pieces – let rise.
2) You’ll need a large dowel of some sort (I used the cardboard tube from a roll of fabric my wife was storing in the garage :ermm: ).
3) Remove fabric, cut the tube into equal lengths with a hacksaw (aint no turning back now);
4) Wrap in foil to keep them from bursting into flames. You may want to do this in the garage to avoid detection;
5) Slither back into the house like the bad man that you are, wrap the dough around the dowels, pinching at the meeting point to hold it together;
6) Brush with olive oil for flavor & color;
7) Hope the whole thing goes to plan so we can all laugh about it later
Tubes cut down:
We’ll find someplace to put that:
Foiled up & ready to go:
Dough is on & to the egg at 500:
When done, remove the dowels & let cool
Garlic fry some broccoli rabe:
Stuff the tubes with shredded porchetta (said ‘porrr-kate-ahh’), broccoli rabe & grated extra sharp provolone*
* It is very important to use the best sharp (preferably imported) provolone, none of that supermarket ‘slicing’ provolone that doesn’t taste like anything – the porchetta & broccoli rabe are very powerful flavors & you need a real dego cheese with enough backbone to stand up & be recognized:
please enjoy a fine selection from the who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6-3rnD7FSc
happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania
West Chester Pennsylvania
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i lay awake at night too.. wondering why i lack creativity and originality and any even remotely artistic ability.. in fact i can barely play the radio .. you on the other hand have two beers ...........
go to the hardware store tomorrow and get a hunk of pvc to replace the cardboard tube and don't forget to place or wrap the fabric in something dust proof ..
happy new year
bill -
Love it!! Flavors sound great!Molly
Colorado Springs
"Loney Queen"
"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE -
hahaha good advice bill, probably won't take it, that fabric'll likely wind up soaking up my next oil spill :ohmy: or some other calamityhappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
Molly, if you haven't had it before, I recommend you give it a try. It's so easy to make & can keep so much longer than pulled pork. It's a standard at parties, weddings, graduations... around here, not only because it's good but because it can sit in a warming dish for 12 hours & be just as good at hour 12 as it was minute one - you really need good hard rolls though, or bake your own.happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
I wish I was there for that one. Pork looks great, and your cannoli filling looks delish. Good call on the provolone.Happily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
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A definite do Marc.Molly
Colorado Springs
"Loney Queen"
"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE -
Looks delicious Marc. It's on the bucket list. Thanks for posting.
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Faith, you can't order one of these without getting the sharp provolone on it - most places have good hot peppers & horseradish too to put on them, gotta have some heat don't you know. As for the greens, fried spinach or brocoli rabe are fairly typicalhappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
"HOLY CRAP MARIE!!" That looks fabulous!!! Of course, I'm on a diet, so everything looks fabulous, but still!!
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Whodathunk, porchetta canonoli! Oh.....Zippy thunk.
Looks fabulous and I bet it tasted even better! -
that looks great, can u batter mine and deepfry it :laugh: does look goodfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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Very creative Marc. Wishing you and yours a great year.
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Amazing what you keep coming up with and yes the roast pork is more popular like you said.
My wife doesn't sew, you wouldn't happen to have some old fabric rolls hanging around would you? :laugh:
Great stuff Marc -
As always, Marc, a delightful cook. Those last two pics are awesome!
Your provolone comments explain a lot. I guess I've never even HAD the good stuff because I've never noticed any particular taste to any provolone I've ever had. Will definitely look for some imported. Thanks!I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Michael, provolone ranges from very very mild to very strong. The mild version is what you would find at most supermarkets at the deli counter next to american cheese & all the other lunch meats. It's very soft, has a very light flavor & melts really well. Good for some things but this isn't one of them. The real deal has a much lower moisture content, is more brittle, barely melts, & is packed with flavor. It's hard to believe they both go by the same namehappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
thats my thoughts on swiss, they all taste like plain edible plastic, maybe because of all the sharp cheddars ive eaten.fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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There is ONE Italian market in my area. At least only one that I know of. Looks like they have a pretty good cheese section so I'll see what I can find. That, or stock up next time I'm in the city visiting the boys. Seems like there's a great market on every street corner in NYC! Thanks!
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
yep, & I've been eating this since I was a kid, many many many years before I discovered real bbq - it's all goodhappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
thanks Tim, and the same to you, Marchappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
along with a deep-fried snickers bar chaser :laugh:happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
thanks Rebecca, and it did taste pretty good. Hard to tell in the photos, but a nice spoonful of the juice goes on after assembly & just soaks into the bread, that's where a lot of the flavor is. It really is a symphony. Have a great new year, Marchappy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania -
only if you inject it with some beer first and wrap it in prosciuttofukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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All right for all us uncultured redneck bikers what the #$$* is broccoli rabe and how do ya make it?!!LOL The Who is on tune hear at the control board right now at work. A fine selection. Now where did I put that beer?!! :laugh: We got to get togeather some time! Cok is just outstanding. Never know what you are going to come up with next. You ever figure out a way to heat The Hut up with out catching something usefull on fire?!!
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Your shredded pork shoulder in juice got my attention. :woohoo: I'd like to slap that on home made bread.
I see the granitware roaster,... so I'm not the only one cooking with that stuff, I got a bunch of different enameled steel cookware. I got an old roaster been in my family handed down from Uncle to cousin to me.
Interesting twist on the pork samitch. Hope your keeping records of the cooks and recipes. When your cookbook is published I'll buy. -
Zip, so glad to see that you didn't stuff the cannoli with "you know what" !! :pinch:
Love that garlic mixture!
Meat looks fab :woohoo:
Happy New Year! -
Great post
We have an Italian festival that serves porchetta
If you aren't there early..
No porchetta for you! :laugh: :laugh:
Shane -
Marc, you never cease to amaze me. That looks incredible. What a great bunch of flavors, my mouth is watering. :blink:
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Your creativity NEVER ceases to amaze me....WOW just WOW..
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