I'm not sure we started out intending to make pad Thai. What we ended up with though was very pad Thai-ish. I found another of the pork loin top loin roasts yesterday. Sounds like something that needs a long cooking time. However, yours truly brines like a fool. 3 hours for this - and then I cut it into 4 pieces that looked a lot like 1 inch thick pork chops. In the meantime Peter made a very mild-flavored peanut sauce and cooked 2 packages of ramen noodles (without the flavor packets). After cooking my "chops" I let them rest for a few minutes and then sliced them thin. We put all this together in a big bowl, garnished it with some cilantro and chopped scallions. It was lovely. I can't give you a recipe any more precise than this, but you can Google pad Thai and spend the rest of your life making it. Based on this, and on past experience, I would suggest that many recipes call for too much peanut. Many of them include peanuts as a garnish. We like a sauce with some peanut butter in it. I gotta tell you though that this particular cut of pork (after brining) turns out some fine hunks o' meat.
5 comments:
Love Pad Thai though I have never made it, go figure. I'm with you on the peanut sauce. Although I love peanut butter, some sauces do call for far too much!
Awwww! Couples cooking. Darling. And the recipe sounds delicious.
I've never had this but peanut sauce works for me!
I always order Pad Thai with a side of peanut sauce. Your dinner sounds excellent.
P.S. My 8 year old daughter was thrilled with all the sweet comments about the dinner she made.
I really don't care much for peanut butter but a thai peanut sauce is one of my favorite of all sauces.
On second thought, peanut butter cookies are my favorite too.
Maybe I just don't like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
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