this was a great meal! a little heavy for me, well - the serving you see here wasn't, but i kept picking more gnocchi out of the serving dish. too much gnocchi IS a bad thing.
the salad was more gourmet than my normal ones - it contained avocado and pomegranate seeds. mmmmm. fantastic. plus some other fruits and veggies.
the pork was rubbed in an african peri peri rub and pan seared. the cut of the pork is what made it so special - it's a pork butt roast that i cut into pork chop-type slabs. it's a fatty cut of pork - there are some hunks of fat, which i don't like, but the fat is also ribboned through the meat. it's like the chicken thigh of pork - a nice, rich, moist dark cut.
the gnocchi was good - i used jarred garlic (ew, so lazy!) and fresh parsley, oh, and olive oil to season it. the taste and texture of the parsley didn't go well. it was too rough and tasted bitter. next time, i would use chopped fresh garlic, and saute the garlic and the parsley in olive oil for a minute before tossing w/ the gnocchi.
(fortunately, this used up the last of my jarred garlic, so i will not succumb to laziness again!)
over all - salad + pork = four stars, gnocchi = 3
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I have to disagree with you on this one. The fat-to-meat ratio on the pork was dead perfect, and the peri peri locked the flavor in with the relentlessness of a federal warden. I may have had a better cut elsewhere in this life or the previous, but fuck if I remember it. The gnocchi was mild in flavor, which complimented the intensity of the meat, especially when I threw some parmesean in its general direction. The salad was excellent as ever.
Five stars!
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