summary: stir-fried green beans with black bean sauce; pork and peanuts; we have a thief; (click on image(s) to see larger views and more photos)

When we’re wanting comfort, we often turn to our favourite dinner of pork and peanuts in hoisin. We often serve it with stir-fried broccoli with black beans. But the other day, the broccoli looked a little limp and bedraggled as well as being insanely expensive. So we got green beans instead.

Stir-fried green beans in black bean sauce (made from fermented black beans) are easily as good as broccoli prepared in the same way. With plenty of steamed rice, this is the ultimate comfort food.

We’re not the only ones who like green beans. (continue reading…)