Chinese Fried Rice, Sweet & Sour Pork & Egg Rolls

Mikie and I made Chinese food tonight. We decided to make this entry a video blog and experimented with doing it on YouTube. We hope you enjoy the video. We hope you'll follow us on YouTube as we'll be posting more videos on there in the future.





Friday night is an excellent night for going out to eat or getting something delivered. Like many other people we are definitely feeling the crunch of this economy, so going out to restaurants is mainly limited to special occasions and is a luxury we can seldom afford.




Every once in a while Mikie gets in the mood for homemade Chinese Food, just like her Dad used to make. Usually she goes shopping ahead of time and makes a whole spread of dishes to accompany this one but we limited this particular recipe to just a basic 3 piece combo of Vegetable Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Fried Egg Rolls.



These dishes are extremely easy to make and because we have three kids to take care of we wanted to make it pretty quick. With prep and cooking time this dish takes about 45 minutes from start to finish.





SWEET & SOUR PORK INGREDIENTS

• 1 Tablespoon of Corn Starch
• 1 Tablespoon of Soy Sauce
• 1 Pound of Cubed Pork Shoulder
• 3/4's of a cup of Vinegar
• 1 cup of Water
• 2 Tablespoons of Vegetable Oil
• 1 Package of Sweet & Sour Sauce Mix
• 1 Cup of Pine Apple chunks
• 1 Green Bell Pepper cut into chunks
• 2 Carrots thinly sliced diagonally
• 1/2 an Onion cut into chunks (we used about 3 green onions for our recipe)
  

COOKING DIRECTIONS

• Mix Corn Starch and Soy Sauce with wire whisk or fork until smooth.
• Pour mixture into a medium sized bowl with chubed pork shoulder and toss until thoroughly coated.
• Blend sauce packet, vinegar and water and mix together. Set this aside.
• Heat oil in a skillet at medium heat and add pork.
  
• Cook approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Add sauce and vegetables. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the sauce has thickened. Reduce heat to low.
• Add Pineapples.
• We used Kikkoman Sweet & Sour Sauce (usually we make this from scratch)
• We used Chungs Frozen Chicken Eggrolls. They were pretty good.

FRIED RICE INGREDIENTS

• 3 Cups of Cold White Rice, Cooked
• 1 Package of Fried Rice Mix
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Tablespoon of Soy Sauce
• 2 Tablespoons of Oil
• 3 Green Onions, Chopped
• 3/4 cup of Cooked Peas & Carrots (Frozen)
• We added extra vegetables, but you can add cooked meat if you like.

COOKING DIRECTIONS

• In a skillet with hot oil, stir fry the rice and onions.
• Add the soy sauce and fried rice mix.
• Push all the rice to one side and add the egg to the other side and scramble it.
• Mix the two sides together and add in your vegetables and cooked meat.