But highlight of the day was to use up my 450 gm of minced pork.
Quite a huge lump of minced meat for a single person. Especially one who eats quite little for each meal. And I absolutely abhor cooking a single dish and eating the same thing over the next couple of meals.
So, I set out to prepare 3 dishes from the same ingredients. Yes, same ingredients, but different dishes.
Let's see. Main ingredients = minced pork (of course) + chopped baby corn + sliced mushrooms. That became my first dish of steamed pork patty. I wish they sell salted fish here. That would blast the dish out of this world. Sadly, I'd make do with my pork patty staying on Earth.
The same ingredients as above went into another dish called the pork shepherd pie. The traditional shepherd's pie is a traditional English dish made with minced lamb (sometimes with beef) covered with a mashed potato crust. But I'm making it with pork! Yeh! My mashed potato turned out fantastic but sadly, I didn't have any cheese at hand. Well, it's meant for tomorrow's dinner anyway. Must remember to buy cheese tomorrow on my way back from school. Anyway, doesn't my mashed potato topping look great?!
Last but not least, a slight variation was pork meat balls with diced mushrooms. A little boo-boo there when I tried to substitute breadcrumbs (Jamie Oliver suggests crushed crackers) in the meat balls with cornflakes. They turned soggy straightaway. But well, the cornflakes did help me soak up a lot of the extra egg. So, I guess it wasn't a total boo-boo.
And here's a picture of my final dinner. Of course I couldn't finish all the food. Didn't expect to. I had some of the meatballs and half of the steamed pork with my delightful rice. But at least I don't end up having a singular huge dish to eat away at the next few days.
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