Bobby's Eats

Still on my new fried rice jag, I made barbecued pork fried rice 炒飯 last night. I still had cooked rice leftovers that Leslie had made the other night in the fridge.

I was down at Ranch 99 is San Diego and decided to get something to eat.

I was buying chili oil but decided to eat some xiao long bao and to buy some of their barbecued pork to take home. 

It was hard to find the chili oil Leslie wanted because she wants the stuff cut with sesame oil as opposed to soybean, grapeseed or canola.

Preferably organic and non GMO.

Very tough to find, even at Ranch 99. 

This blend, La Yu, was as close as I could get. 

Sesame oil, but as my wife pointed out, still a blend with corn oil.

Small and expensive. Need to find an alternative.

I bought the pork from the deli counter, probably should have gone to Sam Wo's next door instead but next time!

When dinner time approached, I prepped broccoli, garlic, ginger, carrots, cabbage and celery. 

I took out my trusty red skillet, got it super hot and fried them in the peanut/sesame chili oil. Added red pepper flakes. Salt and pepper.

Then I added my rice and really let it cook and get toasted and crunchy.

I diced the char sui pork and added that to the mix along with a healthy dose of soy sauce.

I then added two eggs whisked up with a little sesame chili oil to the basin I had created in the center of my pan.

This dish gets really messy, especially not having a proper sized wok. 

Always a big cleanup job in the kitchen! 

Stuff flying everywhere...

So, same deal as before, I let the eggs cook and after scrambling them with a chopstick, then mixed it all in. 

We had talked about adding cashews but didn't have any and used cilantro peanuts instead, which were delicious and added a great  "woody" component to the flavor set.

We topped the dish off with a few splashes of sweet Thai hot sauce. 

Not real pretty, but definitely delicious, pretty in the stomach.

Next I will try shrimp or crab, haven't decided yet. 

Fried rice is definitely a welcome new addition to my culinary quiver.

It is a relatively quick meal and so easy to make.

You can practically throw anything you want that is sitting around lonely in your vegetable bin and it will work.

Wish you could smell it through the computer.

Leslie says that she liked the broccoli in the fried rice better than the sugar snaps, liked the pork and duck dishes equally well.

It's all good.

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p.s. My great friend Doug Garn in New York, who I have known for over 48 years, wrote me recently and said that I was his personal Anthony Bourdain and that he would just like to eat with me for three days. I feel honored with the compliment.

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Halloween fare at Fallbrook Donuts.