Spiral vegetables and a very quick dinner idea

Sometimes after a long day at work, especially when Lonnie is out of town, dinner is the last thing I want to work on.  That says a lot, since everyone that knows me knows that my form of relaxation is to whip something up!  So, the other night as I sat on the couch like a slug and actually considered eating cereal for dinner I thought of my blog.  I allowed myself to daydream a little and decided to play with one of my newest kitchen gadgets....a Paderno Spiralizer.  We went on a field trip with work several weeks ago to a cooking school outing and several us could not leave the place without purchasing one of these fun machines.

You can purchase one of these on the internet.  It is really fun and very easy to use.  So, let me show you what I ended up fixing that evening.

I went through my pantry and refrigerator and found the following:

That is one cucumber, one zucchini, three carrots, some fresh oyster mushrooms, sliced water chestnuts, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, and a jar of toasted sesame seeds.

I chopped two boneless pork chops and beat three eggs in a bowl.

The Spiralizer does really cool things with very simple veggies.  This is one of the carrots and the cucumber on a small spaghetti-like cutting blade.  I added 2 T rice wine vinegar, 1 T sesame oil, 1 T soy sauce and 2 T sesame seeds.  Then I let it sit for about 15 minutes while I cooked my stir fry.  It was light and refreshing.  It was still crunchy the next day when I took the leftovers to work for lunch!

Cucumber Carrot salad with Asian dressing!

Now it was time to start the stir fry.  Took out the wok pan and added about 2 T oil and brought the pan to a medium high heat.  I added the pork and cooked it almost all the way to done.  It doesn't take very long if the pieces are small and uniform in size and the pan is preheated.

 Next, I "spiralized" the remaining carrots and the zucchini.

I pan fried the scrambled eggs omelet style, salted them and then cut them into strips.

I added the mushrooms and water chestnuts to the pork.  I also added a package of boiled rice noodles to give it another texture.

Then the veggies....

And topped it with the egg for both the taste and presentation!

It was a quick and yummy dinner with the help of my Spiralizer.