Pork Faux Mein

In my early days, I promised to give you recipes that used little to no ingredients that you wouldn't know and likely have in your home.  Pork Faux Mein has only one, oddly enough, but tastes almost exactly like Low Mein noodles from a Chinese restaurant.

Much like Low Mein, this recipe is healthy only in that it has vegetables in it.

Ingredients:
1/2 package of uncooked spaghetti noodles
1 lb pork tenderloin, chopped in pieces about the size of the last joint of your thumb
5 tbsp butter
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
1/2 a red bell pepper, diced
1 carrot, cut in small rounds
1 head of broccoli, cut in small florets
1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
1/4 cup rice wine (you can substitute a very dry white wine if you need to)

Directions:
Snap spaghetti noodles in half.  Boil spaghetti noodles for 9 minutes.  Drain into collander or thoroughly drain in pan.

Melt butter in a large skillet with ginger and garlic over medium high heat.  Fry pork until you can no longer see any pink flesh remaining.  Add in vegetables and stir-fry until broccoli becomes bright green.  Pour in soy sauce and rice wine.  Stir to combine.

Add noodles and stir mixture until almost all the liquid is absorbed.  Serve hot.

Crockpot: Barbeque Pork

Next week will be crockpot week per my dear friend Cathy's request. This is just a hint (sans pictures) so she can get started.

Barbeque Pork
Ingredients:
1 pork tenderloin (2 lbs or less)
2 cps (approximately) of barbeque sauce. Whatever you like. (my personal recipe, known as "Not ketchup" )

Directions:

Cover the bottom of the crockpot with barbeque sauce. Put the pork in. Pour the rest of the barbeque sauce on top of the pork. Let cook at least 3 hours at high or 5 hours at low.


Quick and important note about crockpots/slowcookers: Every slowcooker is a little different in terms of temperature. The "high" on some will burn the bejesus out of this, while the "high" on others will just barely do the trick. Please, oh please, if this is your first time using a slowcooker, stay with it! Otherwise you may come home to charcoal in a pot. You should only need to watch it once or twice to get the general idea of just how high your slowcooker's high is.