Lombard Pork Stew

La Casoêula

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Italian Regional Cookery

By Valentina Harris

Published 1990

  • About

This is the recipe for Casoêaula as prepared for me by Susanna Gelmetti and her mother in their lovely family home in the little town of Lodi, near Milan. Their kitchen clearly shows their real passion for cooking, and the house has an elegant style about it which made being there such a pleasure. The family and friends gathered around the table with me to enjoy this incredibly wintry stew with mounds of steaming polenta. It is said that the dish is of Spanish origin, altho