Japanese stir-fried pork with aubergine
I’m always looking for new recipes especially with eastern flavours as summer approaches. I don’t often cook with pork but it is very common in Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese […]
Category Archives: Pork
5 years cancer-free: time for a ‘small party’ & Baked Ham
That’s what my surgeon said I should do ‘if’ I reached the five-year mark. Ten years, he said, calls for a ‘big party’. According to the experts I have defied […]
Kale with chorizo and preserved lemon
More delicious farmers’ market goodies, including the chorizo. I used kale but you can also use cavolo nero. You can get preserved lemon in Sainsburys! A delicious light supper, easy to […]
Pork with black bean sauce
I have been clearing out my fridge and freezer before we move from Singapore and a jar of black beans had already contributed to a delicious ma po tofu, but […]
Hot & sour pork salad PLUS Nam Prik Pow
It’s 2 for 1 today! After a spell in Tamil Nadu and curried out, I felt the need for a hot/sweet/sour combo and some pork (sorry folks – occasionally I […]
Balinese braised pork
I had some left over belly pork from another dish, so I wanted to make something quick and easy. Belly pork has to be cooked for a long time to […]
Pork & Prawn noodle soup
Another meal in a bowl, and what flavours! It’s a common combo out here, pork and prawns – local surf and turf? The secret is to make a really good […]
Stir-fried pork with long beans and Chinese chives
Still exploring old-favourite cookery books; this one, Mahdur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery, I bought soon after I got married over 30 years ago and was my introduction to this style of […]
Thai pork curry with kang kong/morning glory
Even though coconut milk is cooling, the Yin/Yang principle allows for 20% of your diet to be made up from the opposite of your diagnosis. So every now and again […]
5 spice pork belly
Now that winter is coming on, we need something warm and unctuous (eat your heart out Michel Roux) to comfort us on the darker winter evenings (actually in Singapore the […]
