Dinner is…!
I’m finally getting my appetite back after the hospital’s culinary efforts, so went to town a bit yesterday evening – these are the results.
Slow-cooked pork belly in soy sauce, lemon juice, honey and ginger glaze, with broccoli, ginger rice, and crispy kale. Total comfort food, read on for a vague how-to.
The pork goes in at gas mark 3-ish, about a quarter inch deep in the marinade (mix the listed ingredients to taste) for anything from an hour and a half. This time I think it was in there about two hours, regularly turned & basted. When it’s ready you’ll be able to cut the fat with a spoon.
The kale gets stripped from the stalks, splash of oil (sesame in this case) and some salt (not much, it shrinks a lot in the oven so it’s easy to over-season) then in the oven at something less than gas mark 1 for 25-ish minutes (not in with the pork though, as the steam stops it from drying out).
Rice was mixed with some finely sliced ginger then steamed, and the brocolli was just chucked in boiling water for a couple minutes then briefly in a frying pan with some of the (cooked) marinade from the pork.
Everything but the broccoli is cooked pretty slow so the timings are flexible, which is good because my coordination sucks. Presentation is my usual “fuck it, I’m going to chew it up in a minute anyway”.
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Due to an unfortunate adventure with a (huge, delicious, perfectly cooked, 400g Porterhouse) steak, I am now off meat completely, but this still sounds remarkably complete and yummo (apart from the meaty bit, aha). My version of comfort food is toast with anything (current favourite: good quality tuna, mixed with spicy pumpkin and chickpea dip and chopped rocket) so requires minimal preparation and cooking, for maximum “repeat” effect.
“Repeat” effect? Sounds like a veiled referrence to wind, have you forgotten your English colloquialisms? Best make a trip back…?
Tuna is amazing. Good tuna, lightly seared, squeeze of lime… pretty much bugger all else to do. Serve it with sticky rice and soy sauce and I’m a very happy individual. Also my favourite nigiri topper.
What was this adventure, then?
I am really bad at checking back for replies to comments… now we’re out of the IAM bubble, it’s a bit disjointed…
Repeat effect does sound awful in that context, I am shocked when I read it myself… by repeat effect I guess I mean repetitiveness or something… my brain is mush nowadays!
The adventure was just the rediscovery of the fact that meat is far more laborious to digest, and I felt like I was lugging a boulder around in my stomach, highly unpleasant and enough to put me off for quite a while!