Fried Eggs, Wild Rice & Kale
Remember me? One time frequent blogger who’s been sucked into the Columbia postbac pre-med program, swallowed by terrifying Physics tests and crippling amounts of work?
I’m alive! I’m eating all the things! Today I added some kale to leftover wild rice and poured a glug of soy sauce and a squirt of sricacha in the pan. Once the kale was wilted, I set the rice and greens aside and fried up two eggs. A hearty lunch is necessary to make it through my classes today, which end at 10:30pm.
Please accept this photo of Emily Dickinson acting like Emily Dickinson as an apology for my absence.
Today’s Lunch: Deliciously Simple
3 egg omelette (two whites, one whole) with thyme and sriracha on a slice of rye toast. Mixed greens tossed in my homemade mustard dressing on the side.
Lunch made in 7 minutes flat.
Happy Friday!
For breakfast this morning I had two oatmeal muffins and a medium-boiled egg.
What did you have?
Lazy Day Blueberry Pancakes
Today I woke up and had no plans. What? That never happens. Sounds like a great opportunity to make brunch.
But first, breakfast.
George sleeps in approximately 3 hours later than I usually do, so I’ve learned to eat breakfast instead of trying to wait and getting HANGRY. I chopped up a peach and topped it with some cottage cheese and cinnamon to hold me over. It tasted like peach pie!
For my second meal I wanted to make blueberry pancakes and eggs. I used a recipe from Crepes of Wrath for “the best blueberry pancakes” and it turns out she’s NOT exaggerating. The most interesting part of the recipe was it instructed me to separate the yolks and the whites and then whisk the whites until foamy. I then folded them into the batter mixture. These pancakes were THICK and super fluffy. They tasted like dessert!
I used frozen blueberries because I was out of fresh ones and they turned the batter into a beautiful purple hue. The frozen blueberries tasted just as delicious as fresh ones.
Today we’re taking a walk to the Museum of Natural History, as soon as kitty finishes snuggling with George’s shoe…
Today’s Lunch: “Free Form” Omelette
I’m at home today and not feeling so hot and I wanted to make something easy for lunch. My mom used to make the most delicious potato and egg sandwiches and I had that on my mind when I saw potatoes in my fridge. However, the thought of making eggs AND dragging out the toaster, opening the bag of bread and toasting it? Oh no, not today. So I made a free form omelette, aka I was way to tired to do anything other than throw it all in a pan and vaguely stir.
Still delicious.
I microwaved a tiny potato for two minutes and then browned it in the pan for another 5 minutes. I added two eggs and a handful of spinach.
I’d better hurry up and pull myself together because tonight I have some pasta-eating/movie watching plans with these ladies:
What I Made: Pancakes and Eggs
A simple breakfast for a simple weekend. And now it’s time to lay around, catch up on reading, and count down until I can eat another meal.
(That pink stuff in Emergen-C. I am convinced it works and I use it like a drug when I’m feeling the symptoms of exhaustion. And I think it tastes pretty good, too.)
Breakfast: One egg on a toasted english muffin. Pretty perfect.
Happy breakfast to all and to all a good Wednesday.
My breakfast was delicious but Nora’s puts mine to shame! Now if only I had some tomato-pepper relish hanging around. Good thing there are two days on the weekend for brunch!
noraleah:
Breakfast for one: egg, scrambled and cooked very low and slow with a chunk of fresh goat cheese, a spoonful of tomato-pepper relish, and fresh spinach. Served over leftover naan from Thanksgiving (toasted from frozen). Delightful.
12.04.2010, 11:30 am. East Village.
What I Made: Perfect breakfast for a Saturday of productivity.
Two fried eggs with paprika and swiss on whole wheat toast, orange slices, french press coffee.
And now off to vacuum, scrub, polish, fold, and figure out how to use that power drill… uh-oh.
That’s a lot of chickens in one cage.
This NYTimes article checks out what egg farmers are doing to prevent another salmonella catastrophe from happening. Prevention methods include vaccinating chicks, conveyor belts to move manure, fans to dry out manure, and concrete walls to keep out mice. However, it seems like the farmers interviewed for this article are not concerned much with animal welfare, as seen in the photo above. There have been countless studies which prove that animals kept in close quarters are breeding grounds for diseases, not to mention they’re unpleasant for the animals.
The alternative is organic, family-owned farms, which allow chickens to roam freely, consume diets that nature intended, and grow at a biologically normal pace. Of course, this makes for a pricey egg, but I bet those medical bills for salmonella aren’t cheap either.
It’s Leisurely Breakfast Thursday!
6am runs on Thursday mornings mean I have time for a leisurely breakfast before work! Today I dined at Highlands Cafe, a diner in the Upper East Side. There is something about eating at a diner in the city that feels comforting after eating time after time at the newest, hippest, priciest restaurants that pop up. I listened to the waiter explain to a waitress that the last movie he saw in theaters was The Godfather.
About a minute after this photo was taken I knocked that bowl of poached eggs into my lap. Just a typical day.
A little back story to the current salmonella-tainted egg recall...
“Jack DeCoster is one of the most reviled names in industrial agriculture. I first heard of him back in 2007, when I visited Hardin County, Iowa, for a story on the ravages of industrial hog production. One day, as a group of disgruntled farmers gave me a tour of their CAFO-scarred county, they muttered darkly about DeCoster. They said he had been run out of Maine for the egregious practices of his vast egg factories, and that he had set up shop in Iowa with massive, highly polluting hog factories. He was cited as the owner of several operations as we passed foul-smelling concentrations of hog buildings, sometimes as many as eight plunked down together in a cluster, each containing thousands of hogs and each draining mass quantities of waste into a single fetid ‘lagoon.’”
via Grist.org
Gratuitous Photo of Your Breakfast Wednesday
Breakfast of Champions (or marathon trainers struggling through the 90 degree heat) - hard boiled eggs and a cup of tea.
