Spaghetti Carbonara
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
Where a little smoked pork does most of the work. 50 recipes on the site call for bacon.
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
Julia Child put this Burgundian beef stew on every home cook's bucket list, and it earns the effort: beef braised…
Poached eggs and ham on a toasted muffin under a blanket of hollandaise. The sauce is the whole game, and the…
Hard-boiled eggs halved, the yolks whipped smooth with mayonnaise and mustard and piped back in. The most reliably…
The original quiche has no cheese in it, and once you taste this custard — barely set, heavy on cream, studded with…
Three ingredients, no room for error: bacon fried to the exact point of crispness, tomatoes salted and drained, and…
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
The Roman classic from Amatrice: guanciale rendered until crisp, tomatoes cooked down in the rendered fat, and…
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
Chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions — the rustic cousin of bourguignon, and faster…
A Savoyard mountain bake of potatoes, lardons and onions buried under a whole halved Reblochon, which melts down…
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
The ancestor of both carbonara and amatriciana: guanciale, pecorino and black pepper, with no egg and no tomato…
Brazil's national dish: black beans slow-cooked with an armoury of smoked and salted pork, served with rice, collard…
Warm potatoes dressed in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing rather than mayonnaise — sharper, lighter, and much…
Navy beans baked for six hours with molasses, salt pork and mustard until the sauce is dark and thick and the beans…
The Polish hunter's stew: sauerkraut and fresh cabbage cooked down for hours with several kinds of pork, dried…
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
Bitter leaves, a hot bacon dressing poured over so they half-wilt, croutons fried in the same fat, and a poached egg…
Pickled cabbage leaves rolled around pork, rice and dill, layered in a pot with smoked meat and cooked slowly for…
Sour rye soup made from a fermented starter, with white sausage, potatoes, marjoram and a halved boiled egg…
The great slow-cooked bean casserole of southwest France: white beans, confit duck, sausage and pork built into…
The Venezuelan Christmas loaf: a soft sweet dough rolled round ham, streaky bacon, green olives and raisins, so each…
A thick Danish egg cake cooked slowly in one pan and finished under the grill, topped with crisp bacon, tomatoes and…
Alsatian tarte flambée: a cracker-thin base with no yeast, spread with crème fraîche and covered with onion and…
Three slices of toast, two fillings, four cocktail sticks. The architecture is the recipe: bacon and chicken get…
Chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon and roasted hot until the bacon is lacquered and crisp. Stretching the bacon…
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
Bundles of five spears in a spiral of stretched bacon, roasted hot so the bacon crisps at the same moment the…
A coarse country pâté of pork, liver and fat baked in a bain-marie and pressed overnight. Rustic on purpose — you…
Eggs poached in red wine and served on fried bread under a sauce made from the same wine. Burgundy taking the…
The Gascon soup of cabbage, beans and preserved duck, thick enough that the spoon should stand up in it. A meal, not…
Sliced potatoes fried slowly in fat and folded with fresh tomme until they form a single cake. The Auvergne cousin…
Curly endive with hot bacon, a vinegar-deglazed dressing and a poached egg on top. The dressing is made in the bacon…
Alsatian flatbread with fromage blanc, onion and bacon, baked in two minutes at the top of a furnace-hot oven. Thin…
Bread dumplings with speck, from the Alto Adige, served in broth or with butter. The bread must be properly stale…
Prunes stuffed with almonds, wrapped in bacon and grilled until it crackles. The savoury that survived, mostly…
Oysters in bacon, grilled hot and eaten on toast. The other half of the Victorian savoury pair, and much older than…
Cockles and seaweed fried in bacon fat and rolled in oatmeal. The Gower peninsula breakfast, and the best argument…
Lamb's liver kept pink in the middle under a heap of onion gravy. Twenty minutes, and the reason to be careful is…
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
Welsh seaweed fried in bacon fat with oatmeal, on toast. Called Welshman's caviar, which sounds like a joke until…
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
Thin potato pancakes fried in butter, with bacon and lingonberry. Sweden's Thursday, and forty minutes.
Sausages, bacon, potato and onion layered in a pot and cooked slowly in stock until everything gives. Almost no…
Thin beef rolled around bacon, onion and pickle, browned and braised two hours into its own gravy.
Warm potato slices in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing, with no mayonnaise anywhere near it.