TGIF lunch!
Friday TGIF home lunch — rice, eggs, vegetables, protein. Closing out the work week with the standard kitchen plate.
TGIF lunch at home with BB — closing out the work week with the standard home kitchen plate. After Wednesday’s restaurant detour and Thursday’s HK-style cafe stop, Friday returned to the simple home formula.
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-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 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 home weekday lunch had become genuinely the most cost-effective and time-efficient lunch format. Even with phase-2 reopening fully in effect, we weren’t going back to the office canteen rush of the pre-pandemic era. Home lunch at $4 in groceries beats $10-15 office canteen at the cost level and probably wins at the food quality level too.
Some habits earn their permanence post-reopening. Home weekday lunches sit at the top of that list.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable TGIF home lunch — keeping the routine.
