pork and vegetable mélange

This is a portion of pork roast that was cut into chunks and fried. I have a metric ton of this stuff in the freezer. Possibly eight or ten pounds or so. The chunks from this portion are too big. I have a large bowl full of finished fried chunks in the refrigerator that I go to time to time. They're perfectly fine eaten cold. Very paleo, wouldn't you say? The chunks were first dusted in flour seasoned with salt and pepper and a small amount of green curry. The curry is without name. It is the type sold from large jars in the spice section at Whole Foods. It's one of the best deals there. Although the cost seems phenomenal at first, priced by the pound as it is, you only actually buy about an ounce, two at most. So that turns out to be a couple of bucks. Much better than you can do otherwise at the spice store or from the grocery spice rack. The pork pieces in the refrigerator are cut again to smaller size before being included with the mixture.

So there's that.

The vegetables are what I'm presently long on. There's nothing more to it than that. Butter/olive oil, pepper flakes that I flaked myself from mixed bags of dried peppers snapped from a chile display at an Asian market. Odd, they are all South West American chiles. See? Asians love SW chiles too. I broke open each chile pod and dumped out the seeds before tearing them up into pieces. The mixture is quite hot so just a few flakes very powerfully affects every dish they're added. You do know the seeds are entirely inert. Try it sometime. Pick off all the connecting membrane to test. You'll find the seeds by themselves have no heat whatsoever. That's why I get rid of them. Plus you can plant the seeds. They'll grow too, if the chile pods have not been processed. It's fun! It is so amazing to buy a bag of dried chiles from the grocer, plant the seeds, and watch 'em grow. Although, if you plant bell pepper seeds you'll probably find the plants have been overly hybridized and even as they'll grow they will not produce fruit. So forget about bell peppers unless they're organic and from a source averse to modern genetically manipulated Frankenfoods. Like from a hippie farmer. I could trust that.

Purple onion

Garlic clove

Yellow bell pepper

Sweet snow peas

Mushrooms

Lemon squeezed over all as if it were a salad.

No tomato, ay ay ay. This is a great meal for a lazy-ass bachelor such as myself.