I bought some smoked pork jowl at the grocery store the other day, and thought I'd try making spaghetti carbonara with it. I've always wanted to try making carbonara, so I looked up the
Amateur Gourmet's instructions and used the jowl instead of the bacon. It turned out pretty delicious, although we halved the recipe and I wish we hadn't halved the egg.
To go along with it we wanted to try one of Food and Wine's "Hearty Winter Salads" from the current issue, which they called "
Crisp Escarole Salad with Garlicky Anchovy Dressing" We thought that both dishes were fantastic, and we might do the combination again later this week.