Tonight I cooked garlic Udon noodles, coconut cream, pork belly, prawns, and choy sum for dinner.
During the week, Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella posted a recipe for quick garlic prawns and spaghetti recipe, and it got me thinking that garlic prawns would be nice on the weekend.
In my refrigerator, I also had some strips of pork belly, which needed eating too, so I combined everything into a meal for Saturday night.
Ingredients
- Udon noodles
- Coconut cream
- Garlic
- Choy sum
- Pork belly
- Fresh prawns
Instructions
- Dry the skin of the pork belly strips and place into a hot (200 °C) oven for 45 minutes to get the crackling crispy.
- Cook the Udon noodles in boiling water for about 7 minutes and then with 2 minutes to go, toss in the choy sum.
- Rinse the noodles and choy sum in cold water and drain.
- Heat a skillet with the leftover fat from the pork belly and sautée the garlic gently.
- Add the noodles and choy sum.
- Pour in some coconut cream and bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer.
- Add in the prawns and cook through.
- Cut the pork belly into small pieces and add to the skillet.
- Transfer everything to a bowl and eat with chopsticks.
The meal was delicious. The question is, is this Asian or Italian?
I have no idea anymore what sort of food I cook. I take what I have bought and put it together into a meal I think will work. More often than not, the meal tastes okay. I don’t know that anyone else would like to eat it, but it keeps me going, and it keeps my imagination ticking over. In my mind, that’s the important thing.
Over many years of living alone, I’ve worked out what I like and what I don’t like. The trick is keeping the things I want in a list that also aligns with keeping in good health.
The trick mentioned above is not a unique problem. I know other people struggle with it. It’s one of the advantages of the Internet and various cooking forums that we can get ideas from people from all over the world.
I’m not sure cooking with coconut cream is necessarily healthful though. It’s certainly delicious.
I did buy some spaghetti instead of Udon noodles this week so that I can transition from Asian pasta to Italian pasta. 😉
