Food I Eat

I forgot to write this down the last time I made it, and so when I made it again following the original recipe, I didn't do it quite right. THIS IS WHY YOU LEAVE A NOTE. Anyway. 1 pound ground pork, chicken, or turkey 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tbsp grated ginger 1/4 cup light soy sauce 1 tbsp hoisin 1/2 tsp fish sauce Sambal oelek to taste 1 bag coleslaw mix 1 can diced or sliced water chestnuts Green onion to garnish Brown the meat in a pan with a bit of sesame oil. Once the meat is cooked, add the diced onion. Let it cook for a few minutes, then deglaze with soy sauce, and add everything else in. Cook until the cabbage has wilted a little, just a few minutes, and then serve on its own or with rice. For vegetarian/vegan versions, omit fish sauce. Substitute tofu crumbles or lightly fried tofu cubes. Cook the onion on its own, then add in the tofu and everything else.

After several years of being uncharacteristically lucky with Farm Boy's hot lunch bar, I finally ran out of good luck and ate some bad bread pudding. (How could I resist bread pudding? Honestly.) So I spent yesterday wildly ill, and today am finally crawling back into the land of the living. In doing so, I made a very distracted, half-hearted attempt at making some rice and vegetable/kombu broth soup. I ended up not putting enough broth in, and the rice ended up as more of a porridge.  As you do, I tossed a raw egg in, stirred it around until it was kind of also an egg drop soup but not? And then I ate it, and it was good. I also looked up what I'd made, because I figured it was probably named something, somewhere, and it looks a little like congee that hasn't been blended.  So for the next time I get sick, here's a good vegetarian meal that's incredibly delicious and warming.  1/2 cup uncooked rice (I used jasmine, but I think anything would work...