See this? This has been sitting in the freezer for a couple of months now. It’s 1.3 pounds of pork cheek meat. Beautiful stuff. I got this as part of my 50-lb meat pack and I knew exactly what I wanted to make with it, pork cheek tacos. It just took me a little while [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Pork category.
Spicy Garlic Dry-Fried Long Beans with Pork
I haven’t made any stir-fries in a while but on a recent trip to the store, I saw some long beans that looked good. I originally had planned on making green papaya salad with it but I never got around to getting the papaya. So instead, I made a dry-fried dish with it. I was [...]
Hong Kong Fried Noodles – Revisited
For New Year’s Day, I decided to make Hong Kong style fried noodles with seafood. The original post with the recipe can be found here. I’ve updated the recipe since that first time and I think the sauce is much better now. As with most stir-fry recipes, you can add just about any kind of [...]
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Yes, yet another eggplant post. This one is also a Grace Young recipe from The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen. Since this recipe is very similar to Mrs. Chiang’s Szechuan Cookbook (out of print) recipe, both being Sichuan-style dishes, I decided to modify Young’s recipe a bit with more readily available ingredients. Both uses the [...]
Stir-Fried Garlic Eggplant with Pork
One more recipe from Grace Young’s Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge. This time it’s eggplant and pork. The original recipe is okay but nothing spectacular. But add a bit of this And woo boy does this dish come alive! Adapted from Grace Young’s Stir-frying to the Sky’s Edge Paleo diet ingredient substitution in red. Ingredients: 2 oz ground [...]
