- Ginger/Garlic Pork Soup With Vegetables And Yi Mein Noodles
- Crisp Yi Mein Noodle Pillow With Fiery Chile Pork
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Usually , I prepare one dish with enough ingredients to last me for two meals, then just re-heat the left-overs for the next meal, which I intended to do this time as well.
I made a large pot of soup for lunch, enjoyed two bowls of it and then proceeded to put the left-overs in separate containers and into the fridge to be re-heated for dinner.
One container for the pork, one for the noodles, then strain the vegetables and store the veggies and the broth in another two containers , put it all in the fridge, washed the dishes and sat down to watch a movie.
Halfway through the movie, it occured to me that I had only put THREE containers into the fridge, when there should have been FOUR! Low and behold, when I checked, there were only three containers in the fridge – and a sparkly-clean one in the dish rack.
Quel Gâchis !….. I had strained the delicious broth into the sink instead of into the container 😦
So later when dinnertime came around, I had to start improvising for a new dish with the left-overs which were still available.
First, I put the veggies to the side to be Eugene’s meal the next day.
This left me with just noodles and pork, from which I prepared “Crisp Yi Mein Noodle Pillow With Fiery Chile Pork”.
And wow, what a glorious dish this was !!! I could not have planned it better if I wanted to…….(Well, maybe) 🙂
More of “Crisp Yi Mein Noodle Pillow With Fiery Chile Pork” in my next post : Pork And Noodles In Two Parts – “Part Two”
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Bon Appétit ! Life is Good !
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Preparation :
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- cook 1 lb yi mein noodles until al dente, drain, rinse, toss with 2 tblsp sesame oil
- to 2 lbs bone-in pork neck add 4 qt water, season with 1 tblsp garlic paste, 1 tblsp grated ginger, 1 tblsp kosher salt, 1 tbslp lemon juice, 1 tblsp sugar, 1 tsp chile flakes; simmer until meat is tender, about 2,5 hours
- when meat is tender, remove from broth, remove and discard bones, cut meat into bite-size pieces, strain broth (there should be about 1,5 qt-if there is more, reduce- if there is less, add water); add 12 oz blanched bok choy, 1/2 head of napa cabbage and 6 ea sliced radishes, simmer 1 minute, remove from heat, check/adjust seasoning
- place some noodles into bowl
- add some pork, top with soup and veggies, add cilantro
- Ginger/Garlic Pork Soup With Vegetables And Yi Mein Noodles
- Ginger/Garlic Pork Soup With Vegetables And Yi Mein Noodles
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Sometimes something good comes of something bad and this seems to be the case for you here, after pouring that good broth down the sink.
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Anneli,
if life hands you noodles………:-)
Cheers !
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Oops!
PS how about cooking the pork neck sousvide? Will be very tender and juicy after 48 hrs at 57C/135F 🙂
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Hi Stefan,
wouldn’t make much sense to cook it sousvide, then putting it into a soup or chopping it up to make a ragout…….
p.s.
Building the flavor of a soup by cooking the protein in it is part of the quality, fun and beauty of cooking 🙂
Sousvide has its place, but certainly not in everything one cooks.
Cheers ,
Hans
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