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Sunday, December 02, 2007

necessity is the mother of invention

guys, confession. i tend to eat really weird, bland shit. I mean like i will just throw wahtever is there in a pot and MAKE IT WORK! well today i was quite surprised to find that i made something decent. I have this goal to not buy food but rather just use up all the shit that is currently in my freezer or pantry until it all runs out. aside from buying a few bananas, apples, and soymilk weekly i have been doing this for a month. Yes, i had that much food in my pantry. gross. Well I'm hitting the bottom of the barrel now so i was pleasantly pleased to have made something edible tonight.

so it started with some boiling water. I looked in the fridge for some flavoring and found some miso paste, a surprisingly good thing to have in your fridge...Also found an egg, that was probably old but still edible. don't judge me. threw it all the pot to hard boil. Added some chicken broth for flavoring. Then went through the pantry for some sort of protein base like a noodle or something. Soba noodles. done! And then i went into the freezer for some veggies. spinach and soy beans, check. at this point i just let it all sit for a few more minutes and put that shit in a bowl and bam! delicious! The only thing that would have made it better would have been some tofu.

so i have a few recommendations to the single ladies out there who want flavor but not fat and who don't really want to cook. These are excellent things to have lying around your fridge. as mentioned before, miso paste. useful in many ways for fishes and stews. stalk obviously, but this is something i discovered liek 2 years ago since I didn't really grow up in a stalk using house so i wil ljust throw it out there for peopel who have not used this product. Frozen edamame beans are liek SO AWESOME! i throw them in some boiling water for liek 3 minutes and throw them in a tupperware, throw some salt on it and BAM, delicious snack for later in the day. Frozen spinach has also turned out to be surprisingly good. I mean i feel like i eat the way that parents feed their babies, where it's not about flavor but about getting all of their nutrients in. So sometimes i'll just boil some veggies and throw them atop some rice. Tofu. Seriously throw that shit in some boiling chicken stalk and in like 2 minutes you have something that is healthful and edible. serioulsy guys, try this shit out. My soup would have been awesome with some real asian spinach based ramen and not soba.

so i guess the saying really is true. necessity truly is the mother of invention. Now what to do wiht the left over eggs, shallots, and can of garbanzos

2 comments:

Emily said...

once upon a time when i was broke and dieting i vowed to only eat things that were already in my house (except for salad, bread, and milk). it was kind of awesome actually and i keep trying to return to that. maybe i'll do that tonight.

Anonymous said...

dude, caramelize that shit, dump it on the warmed garbanzos, and either dice an egg OR make a fake tamago omelet thing, which might be the most delicious thing ever to come out of my pan requiring no effort. whisk egg with sugar and soy sauce (1 Tbl sugar and 1/2 tsp soy sauce per 2 eggs), pour it into a small pan so that it fills it and make a thick little patty of egg (you can lift up the sides to let any extra liquid go to the bottom of the pan. flip it once, let it get stiff, and then you can slice it up. i eat that shit on soba noodles all the time. dubs, you know about my soba noodle obsession right? seriously i live on them.