Sunday brunch at home with BB — closing out the weekend at the kitchen table. The home brunch routine had settled into its slot as the most consistent meal of the week.

Today’s plate:

Hot rice base
Fried egg (sunny-side)
Stir-fried vegetables
A pan-seared protein
Chilli sauce on the side

The Sunday brunch is the slowest meal of the week. By Sunday morning we’ve burned through the weekend social calendar (or what passes for it during the post-lockdown phase 2 era), and the cooking energy is more deliberate than enthusiastic. The plate doesn’t try to impress; it just delivers.

Hot rice base was the standard fluffy jasmine. Properly steamed in the cooker the night before, reheated to perfect consistency.

Fried egg was the M-style sunny-side standard. Crispy white edges, runny golden yolk centred on the plate.

Stir-fried vegetables today 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, browned both sides.

Chilli sauce on the side as always.

We sat at the kitchen table, drank coffee from the V60 dripper, and ate slow. Sundays during phase 2 had a different rhythm from the lockdown Sundays — there were technically more options for things to do, but we’d settled into the home rhythm and weren’t in a rush to fill the day.

The home Sunday brunch had become one of the small steady anchors of the week. The kind of meal you don’t post-process or try to elevate, you just make it and eat it.

Lockdown habits worth keeping post-reopening. The home Sunday brunch sits firmly at the top of that list.

Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable Sunday brunch — keeping the routine.

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