TGIF lunch!
Friday TGIF home lunch — rice, eggs, vegetables. End-of-work-week home kitchen close to October.
TGIF lunch at home with BB — first Friday of October, closing out the first week of Q4. The standard home kitchen plate.
Today’s plate:
- Hot rice base
- Fried egg (sunny-side)
- Stir-fried vegetables
- Pan-seared protein
- Chilli sauce on the side
The TGIF lunch is the end-of-work-week comfort meal. 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 effort.
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 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 the looser end-of-week mode — the weekend in sight, less urgency in the work afternoon.
The home Friday lunch is the small structural marker of the work week closing out. The pattern across the week — Monday Burpple Beyond, Tuesday home, Wednesday home, Thursday GrabFood, Thursday rainy badminton lunch, Friday home — covered the spectrum of phase 2 eating options. Home cooking remained the steady baseline.
Some lockdown habits earn their permanence post-reopening. The home weekday lunch sits firmly at the top of that list, with the occasional restaurant or hawker break as the planned variety.
October was rolling in, the year’s final quarter beginning. The home cooking routine would carry through to year-end.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable TGIF lunch — keeping the routine.
