Recipes | The Cozy Ladle

Tender chunks of pork in roasted tomatillo and green chile sauce with cilantro

Stew

Pork Chile Verde with Roasted Tomatillos

Pork shoulder braised until tender in a deeply roasted sauce of tomatillos, poblano peppers, green chiles, jalapeño, cilantro and lime.

3 hours 25 minutes Moderate

Chile VerdePork Stew

Sauce

Roman-Style Carbonara with Cured Pork Jowl

A silky Roman-style carbonara made without cream, using cured pork jowl, eggs, Pecorino Romano, black pepper and starchy pasta water to create the sauce.

35 minutes Moderate

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Tender beef chuck coated in a smooth brick-red guajillo and ancho chile sauce

Stew

Beef Chile Colorado

Beef chuck slowly braised in a smooth, brick-red sauce of guajillo and ancho chiles, garlic, cumin and Mexican oregano.

3 hours 25 minutes Moderate

Beef StewChile Colorado

Tender pork shoulder coated in a glossy brick-red dried-chile sauce

Stew

Asado de Puerco

Pork shoulder browned and slowly braised in a glossy, brick-red sauce of ancho, guajillo and árbol chiles, finished with a restrained touch of vinegar.

3 hours 10 minutes Moderate

Pork StewAsado

Soup

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

A refined loaded baked potato soup with oven-baked russets, bacon, leek, cheddar, sour cream and chives—rich and creamy without becoming heavy or gluey.

2 hours 15 minutes Moderate

Cream SoupPotato Soup

Sauce

Chunky Beef, Sausage and Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce

A hearty, chunky spaghetti sauce refined over more than 35 years, with ground beef, hot Italian sausage, mushrooms, Merlot and plenty of petite-diced tomatoes.

2 hours 30 minutes Easy

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