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Pork Vindaloo: Review of Pure Pork Awesomeness
August 27, 2015 by Laura 9 Comments
This faster cooking Pork Vindaloo is delicious and gets dinner on the table in under an hour. A copy of Pure Pork Awesomeness was sent to me in exchange for an honest review. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing.
This is the fifth incarnation of vindaloo on this site. Apparently I have a thing for Indian spices mixed with vinegar! So you may be wondering why this one? Honestly this was a case of using a dish I am familiar with to see how a Southern chef would interpret the classic (and a case of loving vindaloo so much that I am always game for trying another one). It was quite good–but if you are…
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