I didn’t do anything that fancy tonight. Just some stir-fried pork with broccoli and chiles:
It’s another How to Cook Everything Fast recipe. Just brown some pork w/ salt and pepper in the skillet in some oil, stir in some minced garlic, ginger and hot green chiles, then move that to a bowl while you crisp up some broccoli in more oil, then add a bit of water and cover to steam them the rest of the way, mix the pork back in, and toss with hoisin sauce, sesame oil, and green onions.
I was going to make the base recipe of this (with beef, without chiles) for my mom and grandma but we ran out of time in my visit before I got around to it. Hopefully mom made it for them to enjoy. I did cook several things while I was there but forgot to take pictures, including a lamb goulash (except beef because we couldn’t find lamb), a vegetable beef soup with nine kinds of veggies, butternut squash bisque, egg salad, cowboy chili (bean-free since mom is paleo) and honey balsamic pork chops, all in mom’s newly acquired Instant Pot in pressure cooker mode. Over the weekend in the middle of my stay, since we had eight people eating briefly (we were all gathering since my grandpa was dying - and indeed died on that Saturday), I slow cooked some Italian sunday gravy (flank steak, pork ribs, two kinds of sausage, plenty of tomatoes, red wine, and some fresh oregano and basil) pasta sauce to go over gluten-free spaghetti for the whole crowd, and then didn’t quite get slow-roasted pork butt roast w/ maple sugar/salt rub and red pepper chutney done in time to catch two folks before they departed, but the remaining six of us made a good dent on that 7 pound roast.
One other thing I cooked not long before my trip:
Despite appearances, that’s actually pasta, not pizza. Specifically, the Pizza Pasta Bake out of Pasta Revolution. Macaroni with a tomato sauce, chunks of sausage and sauteed mushroom, all topped with mozzarella and pepperoni. Except somehow I managed to either misplace the mozzarella or get Monterey jack instead? Not sure. So I ended up making the topping cheddar. Not as pizza-y, still yummy.