Surprising Pork Stir Fry by Kimber Flory

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

You know, sometimes the best meals ever are the ones where you just wing it. Tonight, it was one of those nights. I had no idea what I was going to make, I was not even sure what I had on hand. But dinner time was rapidly approaching and I needed something. So I scrounged through the kitchen, threw together some of the best stir fry I have ever had. Served over rice, it was not only a huge hit with my son, who loves stir fry, but with my husband later as well. I loved it too. So, here is what went into this amazing stir fry. Sorry I didn’t grab any pictures. I always think about it afterwards.

 

 

Pork Stir Fry

 

1 ½ lb boneless pork tenderloin

1 tsp sesame oil

1 cup Teriyaki marinade (or sauce)

½ apple diced

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

½ cup jellied cranberry sauce

3 Tbsp soy sauce

1 bag stir fry vegetables of your choice (I used snap pea stir fry mix)

Rice to serve stir fry over

 

I cubed the pork roast up into bite size pieces. I heated my skillet up and put the oil in. I tossed in the pork and started browning it. While it was browning, I diced up the apples and threw them in there. Then I put the cinnamon and ginger over it and let it cook.  It was smelling good in my kitchen then.  Then I discovered I didn’t really have as much teriyaki sauce as I thought. So I dumped the sauce into a bowl and tried to figure out what I could add to this to make more sauce. Thinking along the lines of fruit – I saw the jellied cranberry sauce. I remembered a cook once telling me that jellies were good to add to sauces. Hmm, okay, so I threw about ½ cup of cranberry sauce into the teriyaki sauce and mixed it as best I could. I added the frozen stir fry veggies to the pot, dumped the sauce over it all and stirred. Boy, the smells were so delicious that my son came out of his room and told me it smelled like a Chinese restaurant in the house and he was hungry. I cooked up the rice to serve it over and voila – done.

Let me tell you, it got eaten up. I was going to bring the left overs to work with me for my meal tonight, but they wouldn’t let me. It was about gone by the time I went to work. Really got to remember this one. Quick, easy, delicious. I would think it would work just as good with chicken as with pork. Maybe not so much with beef – but wow, really good.