Letters from the Equator

I made myself dinner 30 minutes ago. It was stir-fried chinese mushrooms with some leafy greens I can’t name, and one egg fried over hard.

The mushrooms were a bit hard. I should have cut off the stems. The leafy greens were okay, but the stems were too raw. The dark soy sauce didn’t do justice to the whole thing. And the egg was bland, even though I added soy sauce and pepper.

The whole exercise was another lesson in bad cooking, in this case, cooking in haste. I’ve done it before, much worse actually - so this isn’t as bad.

I guess it takes a bit of time in learning how to cook chinese mushrooms properly, what methods of preparation for leafy greens, how to control the flavour of my cooking with the right sauces…

Oh, and the rice was a day old, so I should have steamed it awhile longer.

I need to subscribe to a Malaysian lazy recipe blog or something, if I can find one.

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