What sort of recipe would make a dish called Porkmanteau?

[Yllaria]

I forget where I came across the word porkmanteau, but I keep thinking that it should be the name of an entree. Possibly ground pork balls* with a filling that contains another protein. That’s in honor of ‘portmanteau words’. And there are already many recipes for cheese-stuffed pork balls, so it has to be something besides, or at least more than cheese.

The only filling I can think of offhand is turkey and stuffing. Does anyone have better ideas?

• I think the ‘balls’ should be pressed into rectangles.

[Rebo]

Bacon and apples.

[Thudlow_Boink]

Stuff a turducken inside a roast pig?

[MrDibble]

A portmanteau is a bag (e.g. a Gladstone bag), so possibly pork *inside *a pastry case of some sort. Pork Wellington, if you would.

[TroutMan]

One of my relatives makes pork tenderloin stuffed with sausage, wrapped with bacon. We call it the basausaloin, but porkmanteau could also be a good name for it.

[Yllaria]

@Rebo

Bacon and apples.

I hadn’t considered apples. Now I’m drooling.

@Thudlow_Boink

Stuff a turducken inside a roast pig?

Hah! If my oven was big enough, I’d be tempted.

@MrDibble

A portmanteau is a bag (e.g. a Gladstone bag), so possibly pork *inside *a pastry case of some sort. Pork Wellington, if you would.

Ah. And the crust could be shaped like a portmanteau. Nice. I still think it needs a stuffing, but I like the idea of adding a pastry case.

@TroutMan

One of my relatives makes pork tenderloin stuffed with sausage, wrapped with bacon. We call it the basausaloin, but porkmanteau could also be a good name for it.

It certainly could. And it sounds tasty.

Thanks for the ideas. I’ll probably be mulling things over for weeks, but I think I’ll be making at least a first attempt.

[kenobi_65]

I think it needs to use Spam as an ingredient, since the name Spam may be a portmanteau of “spiced ham.”

[Skywatcher]

@kenobi_65

I think it needs to use Spam as an ingredient, since the name Spam may be a portmanteau of “spiced ham.”

Spam sausage?

[WotNot]

I think you should be looking for some sort of variation on a Carpetbag steak.

[Yllaria]

@kenobi_65

I think it needs to use Spam as an ingredient, since the name Spam may be a portmanteau of “spiced ham.”

Snerk! I’m starting to lean towards a stuffing of apple and winter squash. Spam might go with that as well as bacon. Could need a piece of pork, rather than ground pork. And the crust.

@WotNot

I think you should be looking for some sort of variation on a Carpetbag steak.

Oh, I want to try that by itself. That sounds delicious.

[Karen_Lingel]

Hmm, I’m thinking of something like a turducken, you know Pork stuffed with a manXXX (or XXXman) stuffed with a XXXteau. Gotta be some foods with those syllables… let me google a sec… well, mangos and gateau?

Ohhhh that sounds awful. Would not eat.

[TroutMan]

@Karen_Lingel

Hmm, I’m thinking of something like a turducken, you know Pork stuffed with a manXXX (or XXXman) stuffed with a XXXteau. Gotta be some foods with those syllables… let me google a sec… well, mangos and gateau?

Pork stuffed with Soylent Green. It’s [del]people[/del] man!

[MrDibble]

@Karen_Lingel

Hmm, I’m thinking of something like a turducken, you know Pork stuffed with a manXXX (or XXXman) stuffed with a XXXteau. Gotta be some foods with those syllables… let me google a sec… well, mangos and gateau?

Ohhhh that sounds awful. Would not eat.

Manchego cheese and … something?

Not gateau, though.

[Yllaria]

@MrDibble

Manchego cheese and … something?

Not gateau, though.

Checking the rhyming dictionary:

dough,
crow,
roe,
sloe,
Bordeaux,
cocoa,
Merlot,
pinto (beans, I assume),
rhino,
buffalo,
risotto,
tomato,
potato,
oregano,
portobello,
sweet potato,

and actually, Manchego rhymes as well.

I already wanted to use dough, and both Merlot and Bordeaux would be easy to add. I think the sweet potato would fit with the ideas I keep coming back to.

[Karen_Lingel]

Chateaubriande might work ??

Or Chateau Anything wine.