Since I've gone off chicken for the month, the man decided to grill up pork chops, Vietnamese style. I"m not that big a fan of pork either, but oddly my allergies don't flare with it. So if one marinates the pork loads and add plenty of chilli, I'll eat it. Toddled off to get some good cuts of Indonesian pork and stalks of lemongrass, lime and such from Tiong Bahru Market. Found nice kale and komatsuna (Japanese chye sim) too.
The man made the meat marinade with lemongrass, onions, garlic, oyster sauce, fish sauce, lime juice, pepper, chilli flakes, and the usual Southeast Asian ingredients for this kind of tangy piquant marinade. It smelt great! The pork chops went into the oven, then they were finished off with a nice sear on the stove. No fire, no grill, no charcoal, so there wasn't any char, but never mind, this would do. We honestly didn't care if the flavors were 'authentic'. LOL
The finished pork chops were sliced up to go with the rice.I opted for basmati rice and the man took brown rice. (The convenience of cooking extra rice and freezing them in the fridge for random meals like these.) More fish sauce with chilli padi were drizzled over to make it even more appetizing. Ahhhhh. They were delicious! Raw tomatoes and shredded raw carrots accompanied the meats. Happiness. The man added a heap of coriander to his portion to make it a happy meal too.
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