Stir-fry and good weather

Oh, how I LOVE stir-fry dinners! With a bit of substitution, this is what we had last night. It's called Pork with Fish Flavor, named thus because it is made with the same ingredients often used by Szechuan cooks to cook fish. Here goes:
1 lb pork, sliced as you like - strips, matchstick, etc
2 T rice wine vinegar or dry sherry
1 T soy sauce
6 wood ears and 5 green onions (didn't use these)
2 cloves garlic fresh gingerroot
1/4 c water
3 T soy sauce
2 t sugar
2 t cornstarch
1 t rice wine vinegar
1/4 t whole black peppers, crushed (didn't use this)
1 T oil
1 t Oriental chili paste - this stuff is hot - 1 t is the right amount - no more!
Cut up the pork as desired and marinate in 1 T of the rice wine or sherry and 1 T soy sauce at room temp for 30 min. Mince garlic and grate 2 tsp ginger, set aside. Whisk together remaining rice wine or sherry, water, 3 T soy, sugar, cornstarch, add'l rice wine, and pepper - set aside. In wok or large skillet, heat oil on high and stirfry garlic, ginger and chili paste for about 30 seconds. Add sliced green onions if using. Remove all from pan. Add half of the pork to the wok and stirfy till no pink shows. Remove from pan and stirfry remaining pork. Add other pork back in and push from the center of the pan. Stir sauce and add to center of pan. Put everything back in (including the matchstick carrots that you forgot like I did)...stir for a few seconds till all is coated with sauce. Serve over rice.

The proportions of the ingredients seemed just right to us - this was DELICIOUS and we'll definitely make it again. We will make twice the sauce next time.

So we used up the pork chop, almost half our remaining rice, some more carrots, and threw in the bamboo shoots and water chestnuts that I found in the pantry. Funny thing is that I skipped over some recipes that called for black bean paste, hoisin sauce and plum sauce. Guess what 3 items I found on the refrigerator shelf??? You guessed it. I'll check them out for the next stirfry.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to think of creative ways to use all those potatoes. Will also enjoy the gorgeous weather we're having after all that wonderful rain. Have a great weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.