a foot or Sow

Having moved into the new place i am starting to feel more at home as each day passes (or more like each meal) there is something to be said about cooking in your own place and in a new place at that. Everything is set up just the way you like it. Sea salt in a jar on the table all the selfs filled with the spices you love and a feeling of feng shui about the placement of each utensil and pot.

Sitting home this Sunday the feeling came over me to cook and being a good Italian and it being sunday .... i went to my local store and picked up some peeled plum tomatoes and pigs feet. Ok so i know allot of you are thinking "pigs feet... YUCK" and i say to all of you!!! don't knock it until you've tried it!!! The pigs feet are full of soft bone, fat and some very flavorful skin all wrapped in a thin layer of pig skin!!! Can you go wrong?? I think not my little lovers!!

SO here is the recipe

2 small whit onions medium dice

12 cloved of garlic sliced

1/4 cup of evoo

4# of cleaned and split pigs feet

5 2# cans of peeled plum tomatoes

1 bunch of fresh parsley

1/2 bunch fresh basil

1 teaspoon crushed red pepper

first scrub the pigs feet so they are nice and clean and you get out all the bone splinters

heat a medium sauce pan over a low flame and add your pigs feet skin down until they get golden brown and crisp then add the garlic and onion and cook until they are translucent.

Now add the red pepper flakes and cook for one more min

now add the tomatoes and i can full of water and bring to a boil.

Now lower to a simmer and cook for 2 hours or until the pig is soft. Stir the sauce every 20 min or so( you don't want it to burn)

at the end chop the parsley and basil and stir in to the sauce.

Now go cook some pasta and gnaw on some bones YUM

this makes a killer sauce!!! but nothing is better then the feet!!!!

so i wish you happy cooking in remember to stay a foot above the rest!!!