Heavenly(?) Egg+Sliced Meat+Cheese Sandwich

Recipe: simple
Ingredients: cheap
Taste: absolutely AMAZING... and loved by my boyfriend. What else matters? XD

Okay, so... in short, one morning, Ben decided he wanted ME, for once, to make our typical lettuce, meat and cheese (+mayo and honey mustard) sandwich. I felt like making something different for myself though... so I made an egg sandwich! inspired by the Dining Common's egg muffins that Jason C. loves so much (and that I've now grown rather fond of). Ben took a bite and... well, he went to Heaven. I just made another and thought, hey, if this is such a success, then why haven't I posted it on my food blog then? The ingredients are all heeeella cheap, and it only takes like 5 minutes to prepare and cook! It's PURRFECT for college students! (Sorry, I just got my first kitty<3 My dream pet of NINETEEN YEARS!!)

So... here's the recipe!

Ingredients:
1 Large Egg
1 medium slice of meat (I use Foster Farm's packaged mixed turkey slices (ham, bologna, salami, etc.))
1 slice of (processed) cheese (I use Hickory smoke swiss)
You'll need:
1 frying pan
enough oil to LIGHTLY cover the bottom of your pan

Toast (or fry) two slices of bread. Set aside on a plate.
Heat up some oil on your pan, and fry your egg overeasy. In other words, crack your egg into the pan, let it brown a little on one side with the yolk UNPOPPED (essential!), then flip it. Place your slice of cheese on top of the top side. Fry until the underside turns a light brown (or darker, depending on how burnt you like your egg...); DO NOT let the yolk cook all the way (unless you don't like runny yolk...). Make sure the cheese has melted a little. Dump the egg+cheese on a slice of toasted bread, then dump a slice of meat onto your pan. Let it brown on one side, then flip it and brown it on the other side. Dump that onto your egg/cheese too, and close up your bread. Now, chew! Yay!

...Sorry, a biiiiit buzzed right now, haha. Anyhoo, trust me, this recipe is gooood... Sorry if it's not clear though. Again, I'm a bit buzzed (and tired too).

Time to log off and make out with my boyfriend AND KITTY. HEHE.
Peace out, peeps!


...Hehehehhehee...

Nasty Mush

Today's dinner was the worst idea of my life. Who the hell fries cucumbers with spam and eggs? Erk, yeah me obviously, but other than me? Don't do it, please. Doesn't taste very good. Add Annie Chun's mai fun to it, and it gets even worse. Cooking Annie Chun's mai fun the classical way, by boiling it, will show you that it turns out to be a pile of mush. But boiled food is always mushy, right? So that's okay. When you drain and fry boiled, soggy mush, you would expect it to get harder, right right? No.

So tonight I thought of the BRILLIANT idea of frying cucumbers instead of green beans and asparagus (see previous posts). I also decided to try frying some mai fun instead of ramen. Fried Spam + egg + mai fun = yummy!... usually. Spam + egg + ANNIE CHUN's mai fun + fried cucumbers = NOT yummy. Maybe I just cooked it wrong? Well, I definitely did, but still, I don't think it would've gotten much better. My first mistake was soaking all of my mai fun. Half of the block would've been too little, but taking pieces off the other half would have left me with much too little for the next dish. Thus, I decided to just soak the whole thing. Because I didn't have a strainer, I just poured out all of the water from the pot of mai fun and transferred the fun to the pan, where I had my fried spam and cucumbers. Turns out, the mai fun was way too wet. In the future, it would be a smart idea to squeeze out all the water, or at least let the fun sit in a strainer for a while. The second problem I had was that the cucumber was too hard; I should have fried it longer. I also forgot to peel the skin of the cucumber... minor problem, but still added to my overall dissatisfaction. In short, wet soggy mai fun is almost impossible to fry, and cucumbers are much too hard in general to complement the mush.

For those of you who would like to suffer the way I suffered, here's my recipe, without any edits:

~:Nasty Mush, aka Mai Fun fried with Cucumbers, Spam, and Eggs:~

(gawd, doesn't that just LOOK gross? ~shudders~)

Ingredients:

1/3 box of Annie Chun's Mai Fun

1/6 a can of Spam, cut into little cubes or rectangles or w/e

1 Large Egg, beat slightly, just so that the yolk is mixed in with the egg white (for this amount of mai fun, two eggs would be better, but I used one...)

1/4 large cucumber, diced

Pinches of Salt (idk how much I use... I just shake in however much looks right...)

Thin slice of sweet butter (it's the only kind of butter in the fridge...)

Steps:

1.) Follow the instructions on the Annie Chun's Mai Fun box for "Stir-fry" (soak in hot water for 7-8 minutes).

2.) Wait about 4 minutes.

3.) Melt butter in a heated pan, add cucumber. Fry for thirty seconds, flip, add Spam, fry for another thirty seconds.

3.) Drain the mai fun and add to the pan. Add salt.

4.) Fry for 1-2 minutes (or so the Annie Chun's box says. I ended up frying for... five minutes? six? something like that). Flip and split apart occasionally (because it's a wet smushy glob that likes to stick to itself...), but try not to smash up all the fun like I did...

5.) Add egg, mix evenly into fun mixture. Fry until egg is solid.

6.) Serve and try not to puke. :]

Hooray! You're insane if you're trying this; it's really not a good combination of ingredients, I swear...
(What a waste of perfectly tasty cucumber... :[ )

Black Friday lunch

I had eggs fried with green beans for breakfast today, and felt like eating more beans, and figured I should go cook something for lunch, so I just decided to fry some more beans. I'm a college student and I'm lazy. What more can I say?

Sorry for the crappy picture; I was too lazy to take a better one... :P

~:Fried Green Beans:~

Ingredients:
Large handful of green beans, ends removed and each bean snapped into two, maybe three pieces
Thin slice of sweet butter
Steps:
1) Heat up a pan and add butter. Melt the butter evenly across the bottom of the pan.
2) When the butter begins to bubble, add the green beans.
3) Fry until one side of the beans turns slightly brown, then flip the beans over.
4) Fry until slightly brown. Remove from heat and serve.

Note: Online, people say to fry the beans for 10 minutes. I fry mine for 5, and I find that they are overcooked... I use Medium to Medium-High heat.
Tips for less dry beans: My mom suggests that you boil the beans first, then fry them. This makes them less dry, supposedly. She was pretty shocked when I said I just stuck mine on the pan... But hey, they tasted fine to me. It just depends on what kind of green beans you feel like eating, I guess?

Black Friday breakfast!

It's been quite the lazy morning. Unlike the people back home, I didn't line up for Black Friday sales at 8 at night... Instead, I went to bed! Awakened at 8:40AM, just in time for class on any other day, went back to sleep because there was no reason for me to be up so early during my Thanksgiving break, woke up and hour later, went back to sleep again, reawakened, slept again, and reawakened for the third time at around 11:03 AM. Feeling too lazy to go back to sleep again (don't ask how that works. it just does. :]), I sluggishly got up and turned on my laptop (the first thing I do every morning, duh!) and replied to offline messages on gtalk. Continued talking to people, then decided it was time I got cleaned up and made breakfast. Breakfast! Another starving college student recipe.
I had decided earlier that I would just fry myself an egg and have an egg sandwich (a friend so graciously gave me half a loaf of bread before he returned home for the holidays). But then I realized I had green stuff in the fridge, and green stuff in eggs almost always tastes good! So off I marched, ready to prepare my next masterpiece: Green Beans and Eggs! (Hahaha not Green Eggs and Ham :P)

~:Green Beans and Eggs:~

Ingredients:
3 Green Beans, cut into 1/2 cm thick slices
1 Large Egg
Pinch of salt
Cooking oil (I used olive oil)
Steps:
1) Crack the egg into a bowl, pop the yolk and mix the eggstuffs together. Add a tiny pinch of salt (or however much salt you like to use for one egg). Set aside.
2) Fry the green beans in one tablespoon of oil in a pan for a few minutes (I didn't keep track... just however long it takes for your beans to get soft yet crunchy, I suppose. Most people say that that takes 10 minutes, but I only cooked mine for 5 minutes TOPS. Keep in mind you have to refry the beans with the eggs later). Note: I used medium-high heat throughout the recipe.
3) Pour the beans WITHOUT the oil (just carefully shove the beans off the pan and into the bowl using a spatula or something of the sort) onto the egg. Mix everything together.
4) Pour the egg mixture onto your pan (which should still have enough oil on it to cook an egg. If not, add a little more?). Let the egg sit until the bottom becomes solid. Flip egg over onto uncooked side, or flip it in half over itself (so that it resembles a taco w/o filling). If you flipped it onto itself, flip to the other side a couple seconds later. (Flipping the egg over itself makes the outsides more cooked than the insides, which may be just cooked enough; the way I like it!) When there is no more runny eggstuffs, turn off the heat and put your egg on a plate; you're done! (This step should only take about 2 minutes, tops.)

Sorry if that's unclear; if you're not sure how to fry a plain egg, just go on google and search "how to fry an egg" :P

p.s. notice that in the picture, most of my beans are lined up at the edge of the top egg layer... I must've not mixed the beans in evenly in Step 3. Oh well x.x

Recipe #1! The makeshift Thanksgiving dinner

I'm sure you're all wondering what that "masterpiece" dish the girl came up with on that one Thanksgiving night was. Well, here it is! TA-DA!

~:top ramen fried with asparagus in sauted garlic, spam, and eggs (oh, and olive oil and salt of course):~

I ALWAYS have Top Ramen in my room. Towers of it. It is my belief that ALL college students should have towers of Top Ramen stacked 10 packages high in some bookshelf or other in their tiny little dorm rooms. Spam is also a must, or some meaty alternative for those who hate the extraordinarily high sodium content of Spam. Since you're not going to actually have HEALTHY frozen meat in your freezer, why not just get some nice canned unhealthy shit instead? Like, duh, right? Anyhoo! Yeah. And if you REALLY want to be silly, always have a carton of eggs in the fridge. Breakfast: fried eggs, Lunch/Dinner: Eggs and Spam in Top Ramen. In short, those three things makes the (college) world go 'round. Hey, at least eggs are healthy!

Back to the point. I know most dorm students just have cup noodles sitting around, but still. Top Ramen, Spam and eggs aren't that hard to come by. The asparagus is a different story though. Fortunately for me, there's a Super Target not too far away from here, so before everybody left for Thanksgiving, I went and stocked up on some food, including vegetables. You can substitute the asparagus for anything green, really. Something more easy to find, like iceberg lettuce, would work too. Oh, and don't forget to get garlic while you're at it.

Now, after much blabbing, the recipe:

~:Top Ramen fried with asparagus, Spam and eggs:~

Ingredients:

Salt

Olive oil (or any other oil. I just happened to have spent a !@#%load of $ on olive oil instead, 'cause it's like, healthier or something?)

2 cloves garlic

1 Large Egg

1 Package Top Ramen (whatever flavor works, 'cause YOU'RE NOT GONNA USE THE MSG PACKAGE ANYWAY! why? you say you like that stuff? well you SHOULDN'T! grr ARF ARF grrrr... msg is like the worst thing you can do to your body aside from drugs :[ (ya, that's exaggerated, w/e))

3 slices of spam, 1/2 cm thick, cut into 1cm x 1cm blocks

3 spears of asparagus, cut into 1/2 cm thick and 1 cm in diameter slices (or whatever size works for you)

Steps:

1) Boil enough water to submerge a block of top ramen. Stick the ramen in and boil for three minutes. You can add some salt to the water if you want your ramen to be salty...

2) Drain the ramen and set aside.

3) In a pan (8in diameter pans are just right, though you'll have to be careful not to spill things out the edges), saute 2 cloves garlic in a tablespoon of olive oil. Add the chopped asparagus. Add salt. Mix everything evenly around the bottom of the pan. Add ramen. Let it sit for a few seconds, then mix it together with the asparagus and lay it evenly across the pan. I did all this on medium-high heat... I think?

4) Add spam. Mix into noodles until the asparagus, garlic, and spam are evenly distributed. Lay evenly across pan. Add salt to taste, if you did not before... Cook for 2 minutes, then flip over. Make sure all parts of the noodles are fried, and not just the surfaces. (You can take your spatula or w/e tool you're using and separate the noodles, so that you can flip it over onto uncooked sides.)

5) Cook for another 2 minutes, flip again. Do this until your TOTAL cook time is 8 minutes.

6) Add an egg evenly to the top. Mix it into the noodles. Cook for another 2 minutes.

7) Take off heat; you're done! (Gawsh, I'm such a blabber mouth. That was one long recipe post... x.x)

8) Enjoy.

New blog!

Hooray! A new blog! A blog I might actually... well, BLOG on! ~does the happy dance~
Er-hrm.

One sunny Thanksgiving day, there was a poor college student living in her UC Davis dorm, unable to go home to San Diego. As the hours dragged by, she decided she was hungry and was going to cook herself a hearty "Thanksgiving dinner" (... hah. funny). With a severe lacking of decent meats and other ingredients, her options looked limited. However, through that amazing magically-come-up-with-something-to-eat power given to all starving college students, she came up with a recipe idea that actually seemed edible! So, she collected her cooking stuffs and marched off to the kitchen. After making a total mess of the place, she returned to her dorm with her masterpiece. Because it was such a tasty success, she decided she should share her recipe with other people like her. And that, dear ladies and gentlemen, is how this blog came to be! Hooray!