MOM Tried And Tested

Category: Food

  • Spring Pork Loin in Cream of Mushroom

     

     

    As usual, dinner in our house is (almost) always unplanned.  So I looked in our fridge and see what ingredients I can use to experiment and here is what I came up with.

    Ingredients:       1.5 lbs pork loin cut into 1″ strips

    2 tbsp soy sauce or fish sauce

    5 oz green onion, chopped

    1 medium red bell pepper, strips

    8 oz mushroom, sliced

    1 small onion, chopped

    1 tsp garlic, chopped

    1 tbsp virgin olive oil

    1 can cream of mushroom + one can water

    Salt and pepper

    Procedure:         In a medium bowl, marinate the pork loin in soy sauce or fish sauce then keep in the fridge for an hour. In a large pan, heat oil then saute garlic until slightly brown, add onion next until caramelized, set aside.  In the same pan, brown the pork, then add back the garlic and onion. Add a little water until pork is tender, simmer.  Next add the rest of the ingredients ( mushroom, bell pepper, green onion, cream of mushroom and 1 can water).  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Simmer for about 5-10 minutes. Do not overcook the vegetables.  Done!

    Image  If you’re going to be brave enough to test this recipe, please return for a comment, suggestion and/or kind criticism.  Also, this is my first time to write a recipe – I am also open for any suggestion about that.

     

    Have the BEST Day!

    #FirstRecipe

  • Baked Flounder

     

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    Tonight’s dinner is unplanned.

    My husband and I are going back and forth whether to eat out or not .  I got tired and then made a quick decision to thaw frozen flounder fillets…. not a very good idea (i guess).  The original recipe I tried is entitled CRUNCHY BAKED FLOUNDER found here, but our dinner was not.  But the taste was great although did not turn out crunchy…

    To clarify, this is the first time I TRIED flounder.  I like fish but hate the salt water fish taste, if you can ‘catch’ what I mean… I usually stick to fresh water fish like tilapia and milk fish or those farm raised salmon.

    Original recipe CRUNCHY BAKED FLOUNDER

    Ingredients: 1/2 cup panko, 1/2 cup grated Parmesan, 3 tablespoons unsalted melted butter, 4 flounder fillets (1 1/2 lb.), Salt and pepper

    Preparation: Preheat oven to 425°F. Mist bottom of a large baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Combine panko, Parmesan and butter in a small bowl and stir mixture well.  Sprinkle both sides of flounder generously with salt and pepper. Arrange fish in prepared baking dish. Sprinkle panko-Parmesan mixture over fish. Bake until fish is cooked through and crumbs are golden, about 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

    My revision:  Instead of melted butter I coated the flounder fillet with olive oil mayonnaise.  Sprinkled with the mixture of panko, grated parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.  I baked it at the same 425°F for 20 minutes and still had to broil high for 2 minutes.

    This was the easiest $7 dinner for a family of 4!

    And to think we were planning to eat out and could have easily spent $30.   🙂