Today, his special ingredient was lychee. He made grilled pork chops with potato pancakes and lychee salad served with a refreshing lychee cocktail.
The potato pancakes were interesting--he basically made a pancake batter, mixed in garlic powder, mashed potatoes and scallions, browned both sides on a buttered pan, then slid the pancakes into a hot oven for about 10 minutes.
Pork chops are always a very simple thing to do. I just season it with salt and pepper then fry them on a skillet. Perfect and simple all the time. Roger, meanwhile, marinated the meat in hoisin sauce for 30 minutes then put them on a grill and, I swear, my mouth just watered. I've never grilled anything in my life before and I love grilled food. Vince loves it even more than I do! Which makes me wonder why on earth don't we have a grill!
Well, I do know why we haven't gotten one--we live in a high-rise and we've always just thought that charcoal and smoke with a small enclosed space is a very bad combination. But when I saw Roger's tabletop grill, well, now I want one, too! Yep, an outdoor electric grill will be on my to-buy list now--just look at that photo above. Yes, that's my future. With that, I'll be able to grill pork chops, barbecue, steak, kebabs, fish, prawns, burgers and even fruit slices! OMG, now I'm really really hungry!
Watched the show for the first time on saturday too! Made hoisin porkchops (used a pan grill cause I too live in a high-rise) and potato pancakes last night. The porkchops were wonderful but my pancakes are just ok. I used store-brought pancake mix and I think I may have screwed up the batter-potato ratio. I'll try the pancakes again but will totally ditch the onion powder and add cheddar cheese instead.
ReplyDeleteCrofter, he used garlic powder, too. And I think pancake mix has sugar in it so it might taste weird since the potato pancakes are supposed to be savory =)
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