This warm and delicious dish is the perfect easy weeknight dinner. It highlights one of our favourite grocery products here at the market, SpiceWorks.
Ground pork, the underappreciated and versatile hero of your next meal. Our hope is that we can expand your use of ground pork beyond meatballs, and remind you of a few old favourite recipes that you haven’t cooked in a long time.
But first, a few words about Lepp Farm Market pork. Before we started growing corn, we were hog farmers. Those roots remain, and we are proud members of the BC Pork Association. We raise our hogs without routinely administered antibiotics, and as is the case with all Canadian pork, without added growth hormones or steroids.
Johnston’s is a family-owned processing plant who delivers our sides of pork to us so our butchers can practice the old-fashioned art of nose-to-tail butchery. Every morning the pork is freshly ground and put in the meat case for our guests to enjoy, and nightly the remainder is used for other purposes. We use it in our café, or make house-made sausages and hot dogs. This means that the ground pork you buy from the meat case has always been ground fresh that same day, and we manage to do so with little to no food waste.
Here at the market, our ground pork is primarily from the pork butt and is very lean, which means it has a lower fat content. This allows you the freedom to amplify it with sauces, spices, veggies or even mixing it with other ground meats.
Our promise to you when you purchase Lepp’s pork is that we can trace the origin of our animals from birth to our meat room, and you are getting the freshest meat possible.
Now, onto the recipes!
