Listen to the Rain

A couple days ago I was looking for something to make for lunch that was delicious and different and wouldn't take 10-15 minutes out of my hour lunch to make when I stumbled onto an article about 卵かけご飯 (tamago kake gohan, "egg on rice"). I knew about it and had made it before, but when I made it, it was soupy and nearly inedible. Turns out it was because I used too much egg, or rather, I made too little rice, so I cooked up a cup of rice instead of half a cup, cracked in a raw egg and got to mixing; added some soy sauce, black sesame seeds, and shio furikake; crumbled up some roasted nori on top, and here we go:


It was extremely good. So good that now I'm thinking about alternating this with my usual breakfast (salmon, pickles, miso soup and rice) on days when I go into the office. I can add a small miso soup to it if it doesn't seem like enough food, and on winter days it'll be lovely and warm. We'll just need to make sure to have more of that toasted nori around to crumble up on top, and maybe some 沢庵 (takuan, "pickled daikon radish") to put on the top. Then it'll be perfect.

The TKG thing is from hearing that the youths call it TKG and it was a Tiktok trend, but I completely ignore Tiktok so I can't verify if that's true or not.