Jou's Kantan Cooking: kimchee pork and asparagus
Jou's Kantan Cooking
"Kantan" is Japanese for "easy." I am...lazy and a terrible cook. Mainly terrible because of the "lazy" thing--when I take my time and do it, I can cook pretty well. But I never learned how to cook, and I am also lazy and hate washing dishes. So when I do cook, it has to involve the least amount of effort and result in the fewest amount of dishes to be washed.
But I'm trying to learn to cook and eat healthier, so. I'm going to post the random things that have worked, and which are easy and tasty and quick.
Kimchee pork and asparagus:
Ingredients:
thinly sliced pork
chingen (bok choi)
asparagus
kimchee
some kind of cooking oil (I used canola oil)
Pull out your frying pan. Add a little bit of oil, just enough to coat the bottom. While it's heating up, get the chingen from the fridge and chop off the thick, white part of about three or four "leaves" and cut those into bite-sized pieces. Toss them into the pan.
Now take out a stalk of asparagus, chop it into bite-sized bits, and add it to the pan.
Get your thinly-sliced pork and also toss it into the pan. Stir-fry all that until the pork is cooked.
Chop up the leaves of the chingen and toss those in the pan. Mix everything up, then wash your cutting board and knife.
Now go to your fridge and take out your kimchee. Put as much kimchee as you want in the pan. Mix until everything is nice and hot.
Put it in a bowl or on a plate and eat (as is, or with rice if you made some). :D
Number of things to wash:
Pan
Cutting board (washed during cooking process)
Knife (washed during cooking process)
Chopsticks (if you use cooking chopstick to cook) or fork (I washed my chopsticks after I put the food in the bowl while it was too hot for me to eat)
Plate/bowl and eating utensil of choice.
Time spent:
About twenty minutes between starting and stuffing my face. :D
"Kantan" is Japanese for "easy." I am...lazy and a terrible cook. Mainly terrible because of the "lazy" thing--when I take my time and do it, I can cook pretty well. But I never learned how to cook, and I am also lazy and hate washing dishes. So when I do cook, it has to involve the least amount of effort and result in the fewest amount of dishes to be washed.
But I'm trying to learn to cook and eat healthier, so. I'm going to post the random things that have worked, and which are easy and tasty and quick.
Kimchee pork and asparagus:
Ingredients:
thinly sliced pork
chingen (bok choi)
asparagus
kimchee
some kind of cooking oil (I used canola oil)
Pull out your frying pan. Add a little bit of oil, just enough to coat the bottom. While it's heating up, get the chingen from the fridge and chop off the thick, white part of about three or four "leaves" and cut those into bite-sized pieces. Toss them into the pan.
Now take out a stalk of asparagus, chop it into bite-sized bits, and add it to the pan.
Get your thinly-sliced pork and also toss it into the pan. Stir-fry all that until the pork is cooked.
Chop up the leaves of the chingen and toss those in the pan. Mix everything up, then wash your cutting board and knife.
Now go to your fridge and take out your kimchee. Put as much kimchee as you want in the pan. Mix until everything is nice and hot.
Put it in a bowl or on a plate and eat (as is, or with rice if you made some). :D
Number of things to wash:
Pan
Cutting board (washed during cooking process)
Knife (washed during cooking process)
Chopsticks (if you use cooking chopstick to cook) or fork (I washed my chopsticks after I put the food in the bowl while it was too hot for me to eat)
Plate/bowl and eating utensil of choice.
Time spent:
About twenty minutes between starting and stuffing my face. :D