A Good Egg and a Better Rice
I know I'm in a little bit of a rut with peanut butter pancakes, but I've found I do really well energy- and hunger-wise with them, and even better if I add an egg or two on the side. I stay comfortably full until 1 or 2 pm instead of being ravenously hungry but 12, which is nice for my schedule. For the eggs I browned some butter, put some sage in it, cooked it a little, then put the egg-mixed-with-half-and-half (something I rarely do) in that mixture (after adding soy sauce to it, too!). Maybe I actually put garlic powder in the mixed eggs first. Yeah, I think I did. It was really good. I wondered if the sage would be weird at breakfast time but it wasn't.
My friend on Sunday sent me home with the spare ingredients from the dinner we made (thank you!), so I had almost everything on hand to re-create the delicious pineappley pork from Sunday. So that's what I did. Covered the porkchops in salt, pepper, and garlic powder (instead of Herbes de Provence, which wasn't handy), cooked them in butter (instead of grapeseed oil), then made a sauce with butter, sage, salt, pepper, and that pineapple juice---and the pineapple chunks themselves. I poured that over the pork and had a scoop of sour cream on the side and it was just marvelous together.
I had rice as well, but I tried cooking it how I learned on Sunday---boiling the water first (with lots of salt), pouring rice in, stirring until you can't scoop the water, then lowering the heat, throwing in oil (for me it was butter) and covering, and cooking (almost) 18 mins. And wow! It was so much better! I realize I've been eating almost soggy rice this whole time when I didn't have to. Better to learn late than never. This had a nice crust and everything, even in a nonstick pan.
Everything tasted fresh and different and wonderful!