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I was more interested in the cheap (and healthy) promises. All your guys' fancy meats = not cheap.

We don't want to know your private life, Nobby. Sheesh.

I'm doing Menu's by the week at the moment, mainly because that means I know what to shop for

Next week is:

Monday: Fish fingers, chips and Peas.

Tues: Sweet and Sour chicken /w Noodles.

Weds: Spicy italian meatballs in a tomato sauce /w Spaggetti

Thur: Spanish Chicken /w pasta.

Fri: takeaway Pizza (I'm allowed one night off a fortnight, sue me.)

Sat: Chili /w rice

Sun: Roast Chicken, roasties, all the trimmings.

Are we a fan of tuna-mac casserole? :-D

Aside from the soy milk, that sounds tasty. (Dunno what it is about the idea of soy milk that turns me off it, though; I like rice milk.)

My normal vegetable of choice for that tends to be peas (and, by a stretch of the definition of "vegetable", cream of mushroom soup).

I'm a fan of casseroles, period.

I've got a good recipe for an oyster casserole. I think I'll make that for Halloween night. Easy enough dish to chow down and then trick or treating!

OK.

In keeping with the growing trend for cooks naming their creations with poncey names, I give you:

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Nobby's Exotic Hot Thing with Dead Pig and Plant-Matter

Serves 2 - do the math for more people.
Items marked with a * are optional, as you may not have them lying around, but are worth getting if you can.
Takes about 30 mins
Very healthy
Very cheap (cost me about £4.80 for all the main ingredients)

Equipment Needed
Wok
Medium Sized Saucepan
2 bowls for ingredients
Sharp Knife
Chopping Board
2 serving bowls

Ingredients
Pork Tenderloin/Filet - About 4oz per person
1 Red Onion (chopped)
1 Red Bell-Pepper/Capsicum (deseeded & thinly sliced)
2 medium sized Mushrooms (sliced)
1 large or 2 small Tomatoes (chopped)
Sugar-Snap Peas or Mange-tout (a handful of frozen peas are fine as an alternative)
1 Carrot (shaved into think strips with a peeler)
1 Lemon
1 Lime
Medium or Light Soy Sauce (Dark is ok if that's all you have)
1 clove garlic
1 thumbnail-sized piece of root ginger*
1/2 teaspoon of Mustard seeds*
Coconut Cream (Ideally in block form, about 1/2 the size of a cigarette pack. If canned - about 1/4 pint)
Honey
Sesame Seeds*
Vegetable Oil
Basmati or long grain rice

Preparation
Marinade:
In a bowl, crush the garlic, grate the ginger, add the zest of the lemon, a large splash of Oil, Soy and squeeze the lemon into it. Add a little pepper. (No need for salt in this dish - there's enough sodium in the Soy)
Finely slice the pork into medallions and mix well in the marinade.
Cover, and put to one side.

Rice:
Now wash the rice (2 or 3 times until the water is clear)
Put in the saucepan, and add just enough boiling water to cover it.
Place on a medium heat on the stove to simmer and LEAVE IT ALONE. (don't stir or slosh)
While you prep the veggies, keep an eye on the rice. As soon as the water's all been absorbed/evaporated, take the pan off the heat and LEAVE IT ALONE.

Vegetables:
Slice/chop/shave as described above and place in a bowl with the sugar-snap peas/mangetout.
The rice should be done now (or almost there).

Cooking:
Once the rice is off the heat & cooling/getting nice & sticky. . .

Get the Wok as hot as you can. Full heat for at least 5 mins.
This bit goes by in a flash, so have everything within easy reach of the stove.

Add a slug of oil to the pan and let it get hot enough to start smoking.
*If you have mustard seeds, throw them in now and step back. They'll start popping in a second.
Throw in all the vegetables (except the tomatoes and frozen peas if that's what you're using)
Stir/toss for 3 minutes.
Place them in the bowl they were in to rest.

Reheat the wok, super-hot.
Drain nearly all the marinade from the pork
Add a small glug of oil to the pan, let it smoke and whizz the pork in it for 2 minutes.

Add the coconut cream, the cooked veg, the tomatoes (and frozen peas*)
Stir for 3 minutes

Just before it's ready, add about a teaspoon of honey and give it a final stir.

Serving
Place the Pork & Veg in a serving dish. Sprinkle liberally with sesame seeds and squeeze half the lime into it. Give it a last quick stir. If you're a total ponce, sprinkle a little freshly chopped coriander or flat-leaf parsley.
Place the rice in another bowl.

I like to use small eating bowls so you just keep helping yourself to a bit of rice & the meat 'n' stuff.
Either way, people can pick out what they want, avoiding any ingredients they don't like.

G/f pronounced it the tastiest meal I've cooked for her (and one of the best she'd ever tasted, and she's dead posh)

Options
Vegetarians can replace the pork with Tofu
For a Kosher/Halal alternative, use Turkey instead of pork
It should work well with prawns instead of meat, but only if they're raw prawns. Only use light soy for this option or you'll kill the flavoUr.

Noodles or ribbon pasta work if you don't fancy rice.

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Like an total knob-head, I forgot to take a photo , but it was one of the nicest looking meals I've made in a long time.

If you do decide to make it, have a camera ready and post your result.

I made my meal, but it ended up costing more around ~$15. It was good though. I'll post recipes tonight if I remember.

Is that stove built into the cabinet or something?

Yep, but here a 'range' is an all-in one thingy. We call this a Hob. I have a 4-ring gas hob, main oven + grill and a dual Microwave/Oven at the moment

I plan to upgrade to a 7 ring Hob (With Uber WOK ring in the middle), and adding a second oven in the New Year.

Yeah This is a range

Nobby, I love men who can cook .... have any friends out there?