To start the afternoon off, another omelet! This tasted a lot better than it looked, truth be told. A few things - the heat should have been much lower when I threw the eggs in at first, the peppers were a really good addition, the tomatoes were surprisingly delightful, and the bacon crumbs added a really nice texture. Not adding the stem on the thyme was also a winning move - moving forward!
Dinner was stir fried vegetables, steamed chicken leg, and as a new addition, mushroom soup. Lesson with the chicken leg, time spent steaming is not additive - you can't steam something for 10 minutes, take it off, and put it on for 5 minutes again, and expect it to be equivalent to 15 minutes of steaming. This should have been obvious, the thing about cooking is heat transfer, and so taking the chicken out and letting it cool was basically a reset.
The mushroom soup was interesting, and pretty pleasant. The trick, it seems is to saute the mushrooms and let it sweat for a bit, to get the flavors out before pouring in the chicken stock. Also, it helped to have a good mixture of mushrooms in there. I'll invest in a blender and do it properly next time to get a nice thick creamy soup.
Good sturdy, hearty stuff all round.
Cheers,
Hanchen
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