Pigging out

I love Thai food, but I've never made it myself. So I had every intention of being diligent and following this week's recipe to a tee.

But then we went grocery shopping. At first, we couldn't find the ground pork. We would have looked harder until we saw this:

3kg (about 6.6lb) of pork. At $1.72 a pound. We couldn't resist.

"We can grind it with our KitchenAid mixer meat grinder attachment!" said we.

Well, we got home, and remembered what a pain it was to clean that thing. So we went and cut up a quarter of that pork into cubes instead. The rest was portioned and frozen.

(I shall be grateful if more pork recipes are posted over the next few weeks.)

Anyway, despite all this, we loved the recipe. I absolutely loved the sauce. I was actually surprised at how well the sauce coated the meat; I was skeptical when I realized that the recipe didn't call for the meat to be marinated. I'm sure I would have loved it more if we had actually used ground pork, which would have soaked up even more sauce. I have some leftover pork, which I shall be packing with some rice and salad for lunch later this week.

Not pretty. But still delicious.

Thai food is teh awesome.

Like Alyson, I really love the flavours of Thai food.  The blend of spicy, sour, sweet and salty are like magic in my mouth.

We've never done lettuce wraps before, but you can bet we'll be doing them again.  With this recipe, because man, these are good.

I made the recipe as written which was great, since ground pork was on sale this week.

I served the wraps with a mango salad.

Mmm. Lettuce Wraps.

Little know fact: Thai flavours are amongst my favourite.

Mint, purple basil, cilantro

Lime, fish sauce, basil, cilantro, jalapeno... the flavours are just so vibrant and fresh.

This week was like recipe heaven for me.

turkey mixture, lettuce, a little sweet chili sauce

 I used ground turkey instead of pork for this recipe since it was all I had on hand.

Recipe reverse strip tease:

Lettuce and chili sauce

Topped with turkey and what not.

Vin de jour (awesome pairing)

Passion fruit, salted caramel, mint

The perfect ending? Macaroons from the local patisserie.

Yum.

Perfection

This recipe is definitely going in the box of repeats. Loved the flavours, loved the messiness, loved everything!