270115 Rice Mix

My default first step when home alone for lunch or dinner is to check what's available. I found today's leftovers: rice and two viands. That automatically means some version of fried rice. I picked this leftover ulam to make it with: 

Next, I saute four or five cloves of garlic (minced).

When the garlic is lightly toasted, I mix in the rice. 

Depending on the leftover, I sometimes take just a piece of meat and cut it up into bite sized bits. 

There was more rice than I could finish, so instead of using all of the garlic rice, I only mixed the leftover ulam with half of the rice:

I left the rest for later. 

Lunch is served. Bon appétit!

210115 Lunch

The day before I used leftover adobo with leftover rice. I tried using olive oil to saute the garlic I normally mix with the rice. It seemed that was the wrong way to go. For this particular dish, the olive oil did not mix well and seemed to leave a strange aftertaste instead. Note to self: stick with olive oil and bread or pasta but never rice.

For this meal, I used leftover beefsteak. This time I used the regular cooking oil to saute the garlic. The results were much better (even though I like adobo better and expected better results from the previous experiment). 

090115 Adobo

Served Nanay adobo attempt for dinner. Passable naman. So I will remember how to do it in the future, doing this post for me. Got no pictures.

Place chicken in saucepan. Put in crushed cloves of garlic, 1 tbsp of soy sauce, 1 tbsp of vinegar, and peppercorn. Allow to marinade. After enough time has passed, turn on heat. Do not mix. Only after mixture has boiled can you stir adobo, otherwise it will become unpalatable. After it has come to a boil, add a bit of water. 

Tonight, I did the shortcut version which was to serve the adobo after the chicken was cooked. But for future reference, take most of the liquid out of saucepan and fry chicken til remaining sauce evaporates. Return removed sauce and serve.

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P.S. It seems my adobo attempts have paid off. Today's attempt had no leftovers. Yay! 

310715 Lunch

090115 Mar-borough Lunch

There is an abundance of bread at home right now so I decided to pass on the rice for today and do something different. This is partly inspired by the lyrics of Scarborough Fair and Margherita pizza.

Beat an egg and add a pinch of salt, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Dip two slices of bread in the egg mixture [you can try to get an even coating but I allowed one side to get soaked and let the other side get what remained, so only half of the other side was coated]. 

Slightly grease the toaster oven pan with olive oil and margarine. Place the bread, soaked side up. Slice and distribute the following onto the bread: one tomato, mozzarella cheese, Quickmelt cheese, and cheddar cheese. Or any cheese you fancy. I suspect Parmesan would work better than cheddar.

Pop into the toaster oven for seven minutes. Really happy with the results... heavenly =).

P.S. Tried this again, this time without the margarine. The toasted part underneath still tasted great (so the olive oil does the trick there) but it stuck more to the pan and that's where the margarine helped. Will retain margarine for future repeats.

Also changed one cheese---used parmesan instead of cheddar. That was an improvement. 

080115 Lunch

This is the sibling of yesterday's lunch because the only difference is instead of chorizo, I used tuna. Sauteed tuna and onions; put about two-thirds on a plate. Used one-third in the pan with the leftover eggplant & beef dish to mix with rice. 

070115 Lunch

Place half a Chinese chorizo, sliced, into a frying pan and let it cook in its own fat. Take off the heat. Saute minced garlic in chorizo fat. Add ground beef. Add garlic soy sauce leftover from Wingers package (commercial chicken nuggets); adjust to taste [I find it too sweet so added a tsp. of mushroom soy sauce]. Add eggplant. Add a bit of water to dilute sauce. 

When everything is cooked, take out half of eggplant-beef dish and put on a plate (below).

Place cooked rice in pan with remaining eggplant and beef. Stir until rice is evenly covered by sauce. Add chorizo. Voila! Lunch is served.