WOW! What a surprize THIS turned out to be! Easy-peezy and super good! This dish is pictured here:
http://buttoni.wordpress.com/2011/0...-slaw-stir-fry/

This simple little throw-together dish takes under 10 minutes to prepare! and it gets two thumbs up from us and got two paws up from my rat terriers, Button and Zipper. They got to eat the wee bits left in the bottom of the dish.

Broccoli slaw is a wonderful offering, precut and for sale in bags in most grocer’s produce areas. I’ve only used it twice in my life. The first time I used it as most people do, for a cole slaw recipe. But I bought a bag today and decided I wanted to see what it would be like cooked. Couldn’t find a single recipe on the internet for this stuff cooked. Yet my mother prefers the stem of broccoli to the flower portion! So I just took some of the leanest pieces of bacon from the bag of “bacon ends and pieces” I bought today, chopped it coarsely and fried this slaw. All I can say is WOW! This was amazingly sweet and so different from whole, steamed spears. The smoky bacon honestly is what made this (no big surprise there for most of us ). You folks who say you don’t like broccoli, maybe you need to try this dish, which just might surprise you. None of the strong, bitterness the flower part has. This recipe gets a resounding thumbs up from both me and my husband! We had this with smoked Czech beef sausage links we buy at a local meat market. This would also be good with baked, fried or BBQ’d pork.



INGREDIENTS:

12 oz. broccoli slaw
4 thick slices of bacon (or 5 thinner slices), coarsely chopped
1 T. extra bacon grease (if your bacon is very lean)
Dash black pepper



DIRECTIONS: Brown the bacon until it has given up most of it’s fat/grease. Don’t cook it to the real crisp stage though. If your bacon is very lean, add the additional T. of bacon grease. Add broccoli slaw and stir-fry until the broccoli threads just begin to wilt.



NUTRITIONAL INFO: Makes 4 servings, each contains:

119 calories
.98 g fat
5.18 g carbs, 3 g fiber, 2.18 g NET CARBS
6.45 g protein
307 mg sodium
25% RDA Vitamin A, 88% vitamin C, 11% iron, 13% selenium

This looks so good so I bought the supplies last night. Can't wait to make it for dinner!

it makes a great base for pasta sauces as well- shrimp alfredo or thai peanut sauce and shrimp are our favorites

Great idea. Really needing some quick fixes right now.

Mmmm. I am inspired.

Thank you ladies. Hope you like this. I had never bought this stuff before and was amazed how good it was. And I like your idea, too, Robin.