Tonight's supper was several experiments. I tried new recipes. One was from Blue Dragon and uses Blue Dragon's Thai green chili paste. I used pork instead of chicken and used carrots, green beans, scallions, and pea shoots instead of the julienned red bell pepper (I didn't have any). I also used less meat than they said. (It was still plenty. Two chicken breasts for two people seemed a bit much.) I tried a new to me recipe for Szechuan cucumber salad. It was less interesting / tasty than the Chinese cucumber salad that I have been using. And, instead of serving pork dish over steamed, white rice (I don't buy white rice.), I used fine bulgur. It has been decades since I have used bulgur. Yeah, I'll be tweaking the pork (chicken) dish, because I think it would work better if the meat was cooked before adding it to the sauce and there was far too much sauce. The bulgur will definitely get used again. It was blander than I remembered, but just about right when you don't want as assertive a flavour as brown rice. Also, from taking the bowl out of the cupboard to having bulgur ready to eat took about 15 minutes. That's darned good for a whole grain. I would rate tonight's supper at 8 out of 10 stars.
BTW, today is also Saint Gertrude of Nivelles' Day, supposedly the patron saint of cats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Nivelles
BTW, today is also Saint Gertrude of Nivelles' Day, supposedly the patron saint of cats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Nivelles