I also make eggs like this
over easy, stupid hot pan, and flip it for like 20 seconds at the end
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What’re those ones at the bottom?
Top: linzer cookies with almond and lemon
Bottom: finikia
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saw some McDonnells curry sauce in granule form in a previously-unseen part of the big Sainsbury’s. nestled in with the Tayto and Cidona and Kimberly biscuits
is it anything like cock-a-leekie soup, by any chance?
i cannot say
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update: spearmint works surprisingly well as a snowcone sno-ball flavor
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Been trying to pivot towards eating more stuff that’s…God it’s gonna sound pretentious but more just like, ingredients? For context, this is me coming off of just eating a lot of shit that’s probably terrible for me, frozen pizzas and other heavily processed food and whatnot.
So far I feel like it’s working out. I’ve got some real hair trigger acid reflux, and between trying to eat better and intermittent fasting I haven’t felt like shit in a while. Well, felt like shit in other ways, but not my dang stomach, for once.
That said, I winged some eggs and tomatoes yesterday that turned out so funky my Taiwanese friend probably did the Scatman Crothers Shining face wherever she was at.
At least the rest of my meal (salt and peppered avocado, steamed broccoli, some tilapia fillets) were fine.
Just gotta be a little more adventurous in my simple meals, but damn…can’t go wrong with a good avocado…
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one transitional thing might be to try to just start adding fresh vegetables to soup up the frozen pizzas? it’s marginally more effort and i think you can even get pre cut vegetables at a lot of grocery stores that might be suitable, bell peppers and stuff
otherwise ive found frozen peas to be like really easy to make as a side dish and you can also usually throw them in to practically anything else and you won’t really notice it at all
not sure what went wrong but ive found frying the eggs first, removing them from the pan, then adding one tomato cut up really finely to the garlic or whatever other aromatics you’re using plus a dash of soy sauce, before putting the bigger chunks of tomato back in and finally readding the eggs makes it turn out better. you can also ‘cheat’ by squirting some ketchup or tomato paste into the garlic/tomato mix to give it a deeper more tomatoey taste
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Ah see that sounds good. What I did was look up a recipe a week ago and forget most of it and go “ehhh I think I can wing it.”
Wound up…god let’s see…
- Chopped up my tomato and sprinkled a tiny bit of sugar on it? Sounded weird and made it too goddamn sweet. Tossed that in a pan with a little oil and maybe burned it a little bit as I…
- Cracked a few eggs into a cup, mixed them up, shook some salt and pepper and added a splash of mirin (I think the recipe said to?) and sesame oil (?).
- Poured the eggs in before the tomatoes got too toasty and scrambled them up.
It looked right, I guess, but it was too dang sweet. Probably needed soy sauce, and skip the sugar (I swear I didn’t add much!).
As for jazzing up frozen pizzas…I could, but nah. Pizzas got me into the bad shape I’m in, but I could see myself daring to make a simple margherita pizza some day…
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oh yeah the sweetness is a thing and maybe kind of an acquired taste. i’ve never added it to the tomatoes themselves before cooking but i can see how that might also help remove some of the moisture maybe? i usually just add a dash of sugar to the soy/garlic/tomato mix when stir frying. but yeah you can totally leave it out if it’s weird, i think a lot of people prefer a less sweet version
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Wanting to eat less processed stuff isn’t pretentious. I think it just feels that way because it’s more expensive and time intensive to cook meals with actual ingredients. This is definitely tied to the fact that, at least in the US, the food system is designed (like most everything else in the US) to shit on poor/broke people. I think most people would prefer to eat something home made and actually nutritious. But because we’re all so tired from having to work shitty jobs that don’t pay us enough to live, we have to eat fast, cheap meals that do shit for our bodies. I mean, I don’t know, I guess everyone intuitively knows this. I just like yelling about this whenever I can. In fact, I feel like I’ve done this in this thread already, woops.
All I mean to say is hell yeah! Fight the system by choosing to eat well when/if you can afford it. As for meal ideas- I think that it might be more overwhelming to pivot to more ingredient cooking all at once (like prufrock said) and might make you inadvertently waste food by having to throw away stuff you didn’t get around to cooking or forgot about, etc. Rice (or bean or pasta) bowls with an egg (or other protein) and some greens sauteed with garlic, maybe some roasted nuts + whatever sauces you like on top are great and filling. I like having pickled red onions around to throw on top of said bowls or in a sandwich and they’re super easy to make/keep forever in the fridge.
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oh yeah, i came in here originally to say that for whatever reason all i’ve been wanting to eat is rice in dashi with some furikake, a soy egg, blanched greens, and kimchi. nothing else hits!
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i made matcha cookies to celebrate my melody’s birthday and packaged some for the neighbors 
earlier today i made ratatouille but forgot to take a picture of it @HOBO and his mom’s bowls got a crispey lacey fried egg on top, also have i talked about how bachelor’s mom calls me miffy
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The year of Yuzu continued with some Yuzu Ginger-ale from Hitachino. “Delicious,” I said, while picking up the $6 bottle from the shelf.
We ate it with some commodity frozen tuna steaks I cut into nigiri and rolls, topped them with my preserved yuzu pulp + sprinkles / mexican crema + turmeric. Sliced up some of these new apples that are red/pink inside, you guys seen these things? I forget the name?
"Let’s get a swig of that there gingerale,” oh no it’s not ginger ale it says right on the bottle it’s Yuzu Ginger ‘No-Ale’ dummy, it’s alcohol-free beer and it’s nasty, it’s gross. Wow.
Moving along. Made some usa-chicken-soup inspired ramen with the thicker curlier frozen Sun noodles. Topped it with some chicken, carrots, brocolini, yuzu pulp. Soup is:
Broth
- chicken stock from boiling used grocery-store rotisserie chicken carcass + wings, frozen supply
- Better Than Boullion low-sodium chicken paste (the best to do it)
- A packet of powdered gelatin
- water
Tare
- Yuzu super-juice, big squizz
- A few different soy sauces
- Mirin
Topper oil
- Melted chicken fat I scraped off the previously chilled chicken stock
- Fried some garlic + onion in it and then discarded
Ok. So far so good. Next was another round of sushi, this time a tiny $9 brick of yellowtail. Topped these with the same stuff as the previous tuna night, but with the additional selection featuring thinly sliced grapes, sprinkles, yuzu juice and a swipe of yuzu kosho on the rear, oh my. I bought a little block of tamago too instead of making it…
Look we’re almost done here, hang in there. Another round of tangy ramen, sure, you’ve seen it before. Largely the same as before, soup has kombu dashi and some packaged yuzu vingar additions. There are some perfect 6:30 eggs hiding under there, trust me. I bought a 5LB bag of frozen, peeled, raw shrimp before Xmas, it was only $20, how could I refuse? We continue to plow our way through, this time simply boiled in the broth before serving. I blended the soup in the vitamix producing an…alarmingly creamy foam-topped result. I deem it a success. Also, hiding below the chicken frappuccino are these new kale-infused frozen ramen noodles our local japanese store has begun selling frozen in un-labeled plastic baggies @ $1.70 a pop.
Anyways…thank you once again for reading my citrus diary, I hope that this new year brings you many deliciously tangy experiences to share with your loved ones and cherish in your future memories.
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i’m sold
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Been on a ginger kick of late…ginger soda, candied ginger, this seltzer water that I guess tastes kinda like ginger…just love that taste. Maybe will try to actually cook something with ginger, but actually working with the stuff is kind of a pain in the ass.
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