Vietnamese grilled pork chop (marinated yesterday) was tonight’s dinner.
I realized belatedly that I have no vegetables that were appropriate sides, and even though the hurricane is just bad rain now, I wasn’t about to go out to rectify that.
To the rescue: a half-frozen bulb of fennel from before my trip (half of which I ate for lunch in panzanella-light). So I used that for a crunchy slaw dressed with nuoc mam, with some mint and grated carrot.
Sushi rice is still standing in for any sticky-ish rice requirements… (I’ll eventually get some Jasmine rice for these things, but I have too much sushi rice at the moment, might as well use it up.)
Pork chop was lovely, but the bbq char is always a missing flavor - I’m going to try broiling the other one when I reheat to see if I can get a bit more of that.
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