Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Comfort Food

Everyone probably has their favorite "comfort food" dish. Around our house, it's pork, tomatoes, and ginger for KM and me. KM made it for the first time right after the Giant was born. It took him forever, it seemed, to make it (I was a hungry breastfeeding mother), but it tasted really good. I made it today because some of the ingredients were about to go bad, and I just needed something easy on the tummy.
You'll need:
Pork (I really like boneless country style ribs and they usually are a decent price per pound)
Tomatoes cut in chunks (we usually use Roma tomatoes because they are cheap, but you can also use another variety or even canned)
Fresh ginger, chopped (I peel it, KM doesn't really - he just smashes it)
Seasonings: Salt, black pepper, garlic (fresh or garlic salt/powder)
Optional: cilantro and green onion
For this "recipe" I don't measure. Today I used about 1.5 lb of pork, 4 tomatoes, about 2 inches of ginger, about a handful of cilantro, and two green onions - that's what we had =)
Chop the pork, season it, and cook it in a large pot until it is done. Add the chopped/smashed ginger either before or after the pork is done. Add the chunks of tomatoes when the pork is done, then the chopped cilantro and onion if you wish. I added a little water today since I didn't have that many tomatoes. We like this as more of a stew and less of a stir fry. Cook on low for awhile. The longer it cooks, the better it tastes. We always eat this over steamed jasmine rice.
Little One use to eat this - he won't touch it now. The Giant use to eat little bits of the pork hidden in balls of rice, but we can't fool him anymore. Your kids might like it, though, mine are just extremely picky (I mean, for real, they won't even eat hot dogs or mac and cheese).