5 michael great Recipes

dried white beans such as great northern, fresh pork rind, confit duck legs, fresh parsley stems (without leaves ), fresh thyme sprigs, garlic cloves, smoked salted slab bacon , halved crosswise, chopped onion (1 lb), salt, meaty mutton or lamb bones, cracked by butcher, rendered goose fat, tomatoes (3 lb), bay leaves (not california ), beef stock (not canned broth), dry white wine, black pepper, fresh garlic-pork sausage (not sweet or very spicy ) such as saucisson a litre ail au vin rouge,saucisse de canard a litre armagnac, or a mixture of the two, plain dry bread crumbs, chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, flour, eggs, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, buttermilk, salt

porterhouse steaks, about 2 inches thick, grey sea salt, coarse grind black pepper, pure olive oil, great balsamic vinegar

couscous (packet in supermarket), chicken stock, olive oil, spanish onion, finely chopped, garlic clove, crushed, fresh red chili , seeds removed, finely sliced, pistachios, shelled and roughly chopped, currants, fine grated a lemon , rind of, grated an orange , rind of, quarter preserved lemon, washed well, use rind only, finely chopped, mint leaves, finely chopped, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, fresh ground pepper