Rainy Sunday's brunch!
Rainy Sunday lockdown brunch — home plate of hot rice, eggs and vegetables. Downpour-window cooking comfort.
Rainy Sunday brunch at home with BB — Father’s Day weekend, monsoon weather, no plans to go anywhere. The rain outside made the home brunch feel especially right.
Today’s plate:
- Hot rice base
- Fried egg (sunny-side)
- Stir-fried vegetables
- A pan-seared protein
- Chilli sauce
- Hot coffee on the side
Rainy days at home are when the kitchen comes into its own. Pan sizzling, rice cooker steaming, kettle whistling — the small domestic soundtrack against the white-noise drumming of the rain outside the window. The temperature in the kitchen ticks up two degrees from all the cooking, which is exactly what you want when the rain has cooled things down outside.
The rice was hot, fluffy, properly steamed. The base of any brunch plate.
Fried egg was the standard sunny-side — crispy white edges, runny golden yolk. The yolk break-over-rice move is the small ritual that makes a home brunch feel intentional rather than just functional.
Stir-fried vegetables today were a quick toss of bok choy and cabbage shreds with smashed garlic, finished with a splash of soy. Crunchy stems, just-wilted leaves.
Protein was pan-seared chicken thigh with a quick teriyaki glaze — soy, mirin, sugar, garlic. Skin-side first for the crispy render, then flipped to cook through. The glaze caramelised on the second side.
Chilli sauce on the side as always.
Hot coffee from the V60 dripper finished off the brunch. We sat at the kitchen table, ate slow, listened to the rain, and didn’t have anywhere to rush to.
Rainy lockdown Sundays were among the better moments of circuit breaker.
Overall: 4.4 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Lovely rainy Sunday brunch — exactly what the weather called for.
