Chef Thomas
Pot Roast Brisket with Root Vegetables
A rolled brisket buried in root vegetables and braised slowly in a covered pot until the meat yields and the kitchen smells like the kind of evening you want to stay in for.
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Chef Thomas
Pot-Roast Chicken with Cider and Tarragon
A whole chicken, lidded and surrendered to the oven with dry cider, smoky bacon, leeks, and tarragon, until the meat falls from the bone and the pot holds a sauce worth bread.
Chef Makoa
Poulet Citron (Tahitian Lemon Chicken)
Tahiti's poulet citron, the lemon chicken of the roulottes: French name, Chinese wok hand, bright citrus sauce, and rice underneath. Everyday fenua food, warm and real.
Chef Makoa
Poulet Fāfā (Tahitian Chicken in Taro Leaves and Coconut Milk)
Tahiti's Sunday chicken, poulet fāfā, brings tender bird and young taro leaves together in coconut milk until the leaf turns silky, the sauce turns rich, and the whole table leans in.
Chef Zohra
Poulet M'hammer aux Amandes (دجاج محمر)
A celebration chicken simmered low in saffron onion sauce, browned until golden, then carried to the table with fried almonds scattered over the top.
Chef Makoa
Povi Masima (Sāmoan Salted Beef with Cabbage)
Sāmoa’s povi masima is hard-cured beef boiled soft, salt tamed by water and time, then finished with cabbage for the Sunday toʻonaʻi table.
Chef Thomas
Prawn and Chilli Linguine
Linguine tossed with king prawns, garlic, chilli, and white wine, the kind of supper that takes less time to cook than it does to decide what to eat, and tastes like you knew all along.
Chef Joost
Preischotel met Nagelkaas
Soft winter leeks, sliced potato, and the clove-studded cheese of Friesland: a weeknight bake that carries the old spice routes into a very ordinary Dutch oven dish.
Chef Joost
Preistamppot (Dutch Leek Mash)
The mildest stamppot in the Dutch winter kitchen: potatoes, leeks, butter, and patience, mashed into one honest pot that tastes better than its modest name admits.
Chef Dimitra
Prespes Gigantes Plaki (Γίγαντες Πλακί Πρεσπών)
Western Macedonia's giant beans bake plaki-style with tomato, onion, herbs, and enough olive oil to turn the sauce glossy, a Lenten table's comfort and tomorrow's better lunch.
Chef Dean
Prime Rib Roast with Horseradish Cream
A magnificent standing rib roast with a burnished herb crust and blushing pink interior, served alongside a bracingly sharp horseradish cream that cuts through the richness like a cold wind off the Atlantic.
Chef Dimitra
Psari Spetsiotiko (Ψάρι Σπετσιώτικο), Spetses Baked Fish
Spetses gives white fish a tomato-red cap of garlic, parsley, olive oil, white wine and breadcrumbs, baked until the crumbs drink the juices and the fish stays tender.
Chef Makoa
Puaʻa Roti (Tahitian Lacquered Pork)
Puaʻa roti is Tahiti's home-style roast pork, a Hakka-Tahitian table dish with soy, honey, garlic, and ginger cooked until the belly goes mahogany and sticky at the edges.
Chef Makoa
Puaʻa Toto (Fatu Hiva Marquesan Pork in Blood)
Puaʻa toto is Fatu Hiva's old, strong comfort food: pork simmered low in its own blood with onion, served beside mei, the breadfruit heart of Henua ʻEnana.
Chef Makoa
Puaʻa Umu (Sāmoan Umu-Roasted Pork, Oven Adapted)
Sāmoa’s puaʻa umu, the toʻonaʻi pork from the above-ground hot-stone umu, brought into a home oven with banana leaf, salt, smoke, and patient hands.
Chef Makoa
Puaʻa Vao (Marquesan Roasted Wild Boar)
Wild valley pig from the Marquesas, salted, wrapped in leaf, roasted slow until the fat shines, then served with fresh miti haari and breadfruit for the celebration table.
Chef Makoa
Puaka Tunu (Tongan Spit-Roasted Pork)
Tonga's feast pork, rubbed with salt, turned slowly over fire, or brought into the oven for home, until the skin is crisp and the meat pulls apart for the whole table.
Chef Dean
Puerto Rican Pernil
Garlicky, deeply seasoned pork shoulder roasted low and slow until the meat surrenders to your fork while the skin transforms into shattering chicharrón. This is the centerpiece that makes Nochebuena worth waiting for all year.
Chef Isabel
Pularda Rellena de Navidad
Castilla y León’s Christmas poulard, boned whole and packed with pork, jamón and black truffle, roasts slowly into a golden centrepiece that rests firm and carves into generous, tidy slices.
Chef Lupita
Pulpo al Tikinxic Holbox
Quintana Roo's coastal tikinxic, octopus marinated in achiote and sour orange, grilled over banana leaves until the tentacles curl, the suckers crisp, and the red crust turns to char at the edges.
Chef Lupita
Pulpo en su Tinta Campechano
Campeche's pulpo en su tinta, octopus simmered in its own black ink with sofrito of onion, garlic, tomato, and chile dulce. A Gulf coast dish that proves seafood does not need to be pretty to be serious.
Chef Lupita
Pulpo en Su Tinta Sudcaliforniano
La Paz's Spanish-rooted main: octopus simmered in its own ink with white wine, potatoes, and chile serrano. The black-sauced cazuela that anchors a Sunday lunch on the Sea of Cortez.
Chef Lupita
Pulpo Enamorado del Pacífico Oaxaqueño
Oaxaca's Pacific coast octopus, scared three times and simmered tender, then dressed warm with tomato, white onion, chile serrano, and Mexican lime. The salsa and the octopus fall in love at the table.
Chef Lupita
Pulpo Zarandeado Sinaloense
Sinaloa's grilled octopus, butterflied and lacquered with a guajillo-chipotle adobo, charred over hardwood coals the way they do it on the beaches of Mazatlan.
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