You can fight the sleep but not the dream

[venta]

I did promise that I wouldn't post about my dinner much any more. However, here is a bento from a week or two ago that I made to fulfill a promise to huskyteer...

I've been pottering along happily with my bento boxes, grabbing frozen rice to defrost each morning. Then suddenly one evening I thought, right tomorrow I'll have... er... oh. No, I won't. No rice.

Can I be bothered to cook rice from scratch in the morning? Er... probably not. If you're doing Japanese-style rice properly, it takes bloody ages. Hmm. Maybe tomorrow is a day for going to the work canteen.

Or... Hmm. I formed a plan, got a bit of smoked haddock out of the freezer to thaw, and went to bed.

The following morning I got up, washed a handful of basmati rice and threw it on to boil with turmeric. I rubbed the bit of fish with garam masala and powdered ginger, wrapped it in foil and popped it in the oven to bake. I stuck an egg on to boil. I chopped a piece of a portable mushroom up finely, and some spring onions.

And, er, I poached some celery in wine, which wasn't really very on-message but celery was the only thing I had on hand remote resembling a green vegetable. Spinach would have been a better bet.

The result... the deconstructed kedgeree bento:



As you can see, my ability to take in-focus pictures first thing in the morning hasn't improved.

It was moderately successful as a lunchbox. The rice - despite being alledgedly flavoured with turmeric, and having onion and mushroom mixed through it - was a little bland. I know the turmeric-flavouring works well for something you're going to eat hot, but it doesn't stand up well to being eaten cold.

Suggestions for improvement are welcome, though with a prep. time of nearly forty minutes this one ain't happening often.

Comments

[lnr]

I've found that it can help if you bash the egg all over, so it's very very cracked, rather than just a bit cracked, and that the round end tends to have a gap in making it easier to find your way under the membrane. It still sometimes takes a week of fiddling though.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Thanks - the more tips the better!

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Roll the egg, to break the shell but leaving it stuck to the membrane, and peel under running water. You don't have to cool it so much before-hand that way either.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

This one sounds like fun - might have to be tried!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Boiled eggs with peeled garlic for tea it is, then!