Pork 2 Days!

If you follow me on Twitter, you saw a flurry of activity when I arrived home one day and found a box on my porch. Since I had not recently ordered anything, I was especially curious. I opened it to find this:

My obsession with all things Top Chef paid off (even this piece's title is an homage to Top Chefness and the "Protein" 2 ways!) and I had been selected in a sweepstakes I had entered to win all the stuff I needed to throw my own Top Chef Masters finale party. Sponsored by PFChangs at Home Meals, there was clearly an Asian theme so I invited some girlfriends over for some food and fun.

Now as luck would have it, I had already planned on making crock pot pork on Monday as I had purchased some pork roasts at the beginning of the month when they were on sale. So having leftovers to make my fried rice were a definite! The Wednesday of the finale was a cook only for me night since hubby would be out on volunteer Rescue Squad duty so the stars were aligned to create both meals!

For the pork, I had been wanting to use the Trader Joes Sweet Chili Sauce in a recipe, and I thought it might work really well in the crock pot. I sliced an onion and put it in the bottom of my slow cooker. To it I added my 2.5 pound pork roast and 1 cup of warm water that had been mixed with 2 tablespoons of chili sauce, 2 tablespoons of ketchup, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, salt, pepper and garlic salt (probably about 1 tablespoon) This is what it looked like when done:

And when put in a pretty serving dish.

 I decided to serve with hot buttered egg noodles (the ONLY noodle we ever use is No Yolks!)

 A huge hit!

The next night, was the fried rice night. Here is my prep:

 And then the various stages of fried rice:

It turned out delicious

 and we had a great time!






Another example of planning two meals with one original dish!