Day 3: half day off

So today was a bit of a cheat day, since I had lunch outside, and a pretty heavy one at that, so that was one less meal, and a very light dinner to prep.  

Menu:

• Dinner: Egg custard, carrot chips, and steamed vegetables.
• Time spent: ~0.5 hour prep, 15 mins clean up
• Estimated cost of inventory used: $5.16

Key lessons of the day:

• Air bubbles that was beat into the egg resulted in an outstandingly ugly egg custard.

Meal breakdowns

Dinner: Egg custard, carrot chips, and steamed vegetables

The results: as discussed above, this was one ugly bowl of egg custard.  Separately, the carrot and tomato could definitely have been eaten whole, rather than being cut, but I thought it would be a good chance to get some practice in knife work.  Unsurprising, there's still a ways to go.

General prep scheme:

• Cut up some mushrooms, wood ear, a couple of slices of carrots, and threw into a bowl, topped with some bonito flakes
• Beat up two eggs and added in a teaspoon of the prawn shell stock.
• Poured the mixture over the bowl with ingredients in it
• Steamed for 15 minutes
• Seasoned with sesame oil, salt and pepper

Other notes:

• The egg custard was pretty good, so the flavouring worked out, but clearly the presentation and preparation needed some work.  I think the trick next time is either beat very slowly or let the egg rest to let the air beat into it settle.

Today was a day off; tomorrow, we'll get back at it again, this time, on a weekday, where the challenge will be to do food prep after a full day of work.

Cheers,

Hanchen