In praise of really great simple meals

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All from Trader Joe's except the tomatoes, wine, and the croutons.

(seriously this is what I'm having for lunch today)

HOLD ON, I work right next door to somewhere which can sell me freshly cooked broccoli!

CASHBAQ!

"Cloves, Tom Collins' mix, frozen pie crust...let's go see Mom"

And I didn't get any from the happy shop because it looked like it had been sitting there for ages and their other food selections looked rubbish AND they wanted to charge me £4 for the priviliege, f#ck off...

(NB not a low fat option really.)

Smoked mackrel pate ( HTF do you spell mackarel?) no still looks wrong...damn.

take skin off 'fishes', put in blender with blob of bio yoghutr or crme fraiche and blob of grainy mustard or horse radish, blend, spread on toast.

Raw tuna slices dipped in soy sauce and wasabi ( aka sashimi) with spinach leaves and sesame seeds

Asparagus stalks dipped in lightly boiled egg.

I want my tea.

-- phil-two (philtw...), April 5th, 2004. (phil-two)

i decided to do this for lunch today; however, i wanted cucumber kimchee and the lady at the store told me it was not a good season for it, and that they tried it last week and it didn't come out good. isn't spring/summer perfect for vegetables? is there some secret mystery cucumber used in kimchee? i got other stuff, but now all i want is some cucumber kimchee! argh!

i thought that it was more of a fall/winter kimchee, but im probably wrong. summer kimchee is like this long white & green cabbage - its not as spicy and kinda refreshing. well, refreshing if you're korean or used to korean food. not so refreshing if you dontlike spicy. but anyways i could be wrong since im a fairly useless korean. i can't even speak the language, so when i go to korean restaurants/markets i have to pretend to be chinese, or i tell them that i was adopted by white people who denied me of my heritage, etc.

But the simplest meal I adore is this: take two of those biscuits you can warm up one at a time, bake them, and when they're right in the middle of baking, begin to scramble some eggs. Butter the biscuits when they come out and top the biscuits with the eggs. I like to eat them with a fork. I could also live off this meal and a few select others.

Rice cooked in chicken broth then topped with slices of chicken garnished with cilantro and maybe a tomato.

5 cups baby spinach
handful cilantro leaves chopped
4 scallions sliced into rings
1 avocado sliced
boneless chicken breast grilled or broiled (leftover roast c works 2)

combine & dress w/juice of 1 lime and 2 tbsp olive oil, salt to taste

I've tried eating pb & j indoors and it is just never as satisfying.