The year's first stir fry

After yesterday there is no way anything I can do at home will match up to what I had at Midsummer, I haven’t got a water bath in my kitchen, but I have Stir-fried Pork and Green Pepper with rice; my first of the year. I don’t do a stir fry too often as I find that my gas hob doesn’t get hot enough to retain heat in the wok. The wok smokes up fine to start with but the addition of ingredients cools the pan below the smoking level required for proper stir fried meals and the end result, though very edible, is not a genuine stir fry, one where the meat caramelises within seconds of touching the pan and everything needs to be kept moving to prevent burning. Where you NEED to add a dash of water for the same purpose, where you NEED to open all the windows in the room to get the smoke out afterwards – a genuine stir fry. I can only make an approximation.

Stir-fried pork and green pepper with rice