Last Saturday's brunch!
Monday throwback to Saturday's brunch — home plate of rice, eggs, vegetables. Weekend home kitchen routine.
Monday throwback to last Saturday’s brunch — home plate of rice, eggs, vegetables. The standard weekend home kitchen routine continues.
Saturday’s plate was the standard formula:
- Hot rice base
- Fried egg (sunny-side)
- Stir-fried vegetables
- Pan-seared protein
- Chilli sauce on the side
The November Saturday brunch had the same shape as every other Saturday brunch this year. By the end of November we’d run this format probably 40+ times during 2020 alone. The repetition wasn’t boring; it was the steadying thing.
Hot rice base was the standard fluffy jasmine.
Fried egg was the M-style sunny-side. Crispy white edges, runny golden yolk.
Stir-fried vegetables were cabbage shreds with carrot strips, smashed garlic and a splash of soy.
Pan-seared protein was a small portion of sausage rounds — sliced Bratwurst, hit in its rendered fat.
Chilli sauce on the side as always.
We sat at the kitchen table, drank coffee from the V60, ate slow. The November weather meant the kitchen got a touch warmer than the apartment ambient during cooking.
The home Saturday brunch had become one of the small reliable anchors of 2020. A year that had needed reliable anchors more than most. Phase 2 had restored access to the cafe brunch ecosystem, but the home routine had proven itself.
Some lockdown habits earn their permanence post-reopening. The home Saturday brunch sits firmly at the top of that list.
The Monday throwback post is one of the small structural rituals of the IG-posting cadence — sometimes the actual posting lags the actual meal by a day or two, and the framing as a “throwback to last Saturday” is the way to acknowledge it.
Overall: 4.1 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable Saturday brunch — keeping the routine.
