TGIF brunch!
Friday TGIF home brunch — rice, eggs, vegetables, protein. End-of-work-week home kitchen close.
TGIF brunch at home with BB — closing out the work week with the standard home kitchen plate. Same components, same skillet, same 15-minute timeframe as every other weekday this month.
Today’s plate:
- Hot rice base
- Fried egg (sunny-side)
- Stir-fried vegetables
- Pan-seared protein
- Chilli sauce on the side
The TGIF brunch is the end-of-week comfort meal. By Friday the cooking energy is starting to flag, but the kitchen routine had become automatic enough that we could still pull off the standard plate without trying. The weekend was an afternoon away.
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 today were cabbage shreds with carrot strips, smashed garlic and a splash of soy.
Pan-seared protein was a small portion of pan-fried sausage rounds — sliced Bratwurst, hit in its rendered fat.
Chilli sauce on the side as always.
We sat at the kitchen counter, drank coffee from the V60, ate slow. The Friday energy was different from the Monday energy — looser, with the weekend in sight, less urgency in the work afternoon.
The pattern across the week: home weekday lunches as the steady $3-4 baseline, occasional restaurant breaks (Wednesday Burpple set, Thursday Tamoya Burpple udon) as the planned variety. The split-rotation made both halves more enjoyable — the home lunches as comfort, the restaurant lunches as small events.
Some lockdown habits earn their permanence post-reopening. The home weekday brunch sits firmly at the top of that list.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable TGIF brunch — keeping the routine.
