Tuesday's lunch!
Tuesday phase-2 home lunch — rice, eggs, vegetables. Standard weekday rotation continuing through late August.
Tuesday lunch at home with BB — back to the standard weekday plate. After the morning’s bubble tea haul, the home lunch was the steady mid-day meal.
Today’s plate:
- Hot rice base
- Fried egg (sunny-side)
- Stir-fried vegetables
- Pan-seared protein
- Chilli sauce on the side
The Tuesday lunch sits in the small-energy mid-rotation slot of the week. Monday is the start; Wednesday is the mid-week peak; Tuesday is the quiet steady day between them. The cooking energy matches — focused, not ambitious.
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 water (had bubble tea earlier), ate slow. The mid-morning quiet of working-from-home meant we could pause and eat without the rush of the office canteen routine.
The home weekday lunch was probably the single biggest beneficial habit shift from lockdown. Pre-pandemic this slot was a $10-15 office canteen meal or a quick takeaway eaten at the desk. Lockdown forced us into proper sit-down kitchen lunches at $3-4 in groceries, and we’d kept the habit going through phase 2.
Some lockdown habits earn their permanence.
Overall: 4.2 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable Tuesday home lunch — keeping the routine.
