[food] Apparently Adam's latest favourite is Sad Alex Default Rice

[kaberett]

... which I only made for him for the first time earlier this week when he came home at lunchtime to hold my hand through a phonecall, and which we've had about three times since. It falls into my broad category of "comfort food, not Company Food", not least because it takes Approximately Ten Minutes, which means it just... doesn't occur to me that anyone else might like it? But hey, A might want to make it himself at some point when I'm not around, so.

Cook enough rice for however many people you're feeding.

Take rice off heat and break in one egg per person, then stir vigorously. (Include a dollop of sesame oil at this point if you're the kind of household that keeps it in.)

Mix through kecap manis/soy sauce/sriracha to taste.

Top with crispy shallots (generally available in Great Big Bags from All Good Supermarkets) and/or kim chi (for Bonus Vegetable).

(I tend to make kecap manis and kimchi at home for the sake of vegetarianism, but they can trivially be bought at the same places that sell crispy shallots provided you don't mind shrimp. On the upside, one big batch of each will last me several years, so amortised out it's still not very much cooking.)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

ooh hm

[alexseanchai]

this was going to be my comment now too but

[davidgillon]

I find salsa goes well with rice as a bonus vegetable.

Favourite bendy, can't stand up today meal is one packet of nuke in the bag rice, one small tin of mackerel, tuna or sardines (for the omnivores), side of salsa (one jar will do several ample servings). Total prep time, 3 minutes, no need to monitor pans, and everything will live happily in the cupboard until needed.

[simont]

I find salsa goes well with rice as a bonus vegetable.

On a similar sort of theme, Sainsbury's does little pots of red pepper goo which I usually use as a relish in extravagant sandwiches. One day I had a spare pot in the house and no idea better than stirring it into my rice to see what happened, and the answer turned out to be "something nice enough that you should do it again on purpose".

[fanf]

I have been making fried rice with fish sauce as well as the usual soy + sesame combo. The kids complain of the smell when I overdo the fish sauce :-)

[ninetydegrees]

Hm kimchi...
This sounds yummy. Thanks for sharing. :)

[jesse_the_k]

Tragically, US grocers don't stock crispy shallots, because they sound like just the thing to transform rice to RICE!

I'm too wimpy for Kimchi, but there are other fermented veg which can sub in. (I'm fond of Jeff's Zarrots -- long carrot shreds fermented with copious salt and even more ginger.)

[sebenikela]

when i lived in Ecuador the default "idk, food?" fast meal was leftover rice with a fried egg on top and ketchup (nb: default for Ecuadorians, and us gringos learned it from them). Egg yolk still runny, for stirring in with the rice. I guess because everyone eats a lot of rice so there's usually leftovers around, and egg is cheap easy protein.

It's good comfort food. Or maybe just for me because nostalgia.

[redsixwing]

Eggy rice!

I do that, but with bottles of furikake instead of the crispy shallot. Stir in egg, top with favorite flavor of salty-seaweed goodness, eat at own pace.

Kimchi sounds like a nice addition. I've got to figure out how to replicate one I ate the other day...