Are you my boy with demons in your sleeve?

[sovay]

As I continue to feel terrible and limited in foodstuffs, I wanted to make dinner with a minimum of time and effort, so I opened a tin of smoked sardines and a tin of mackerel in olive oil and cooked them with leftover basmati rice and black pepper and one of the seasoning blends that spatch and I refer to as "allium in a can" and I believe I succeeded in making totally inauthentic kedgeree. It was hot and tasted good. I bet I could have added yogurt if I had been thinking straight.

Comments

"Any landing you can walk away from is a *good* landing"

[kathmandu]

Any dinner people eat and feel satisfied by was a good dinner.

Re: "Any landing you can walk away from is a *good* landing"

[sovay]

Any dinner people eat and feel satisfied by was a good dinner.

I do not regret it!

Re: "Any landing you can walk away from is a *good* landing"

[minoanmiss]

Well said!

[selkie]

You made dinner, fuck yeah!

...Weird day, thanks for spending your spoons on it. *hugs*

[sovay]

You made dinner, fuck yeah!

I did! Then I ate some shortbread and spent the evening under a cat! That is about where I mentally am at present.

...Weird day, thanks for spending your spoons on it.

*hugs*

[swan_tower]

I opened a tin of smoked sardines and a tin of mackerel in olive oil and

I really expected that sentence to end in cats. :-D

[sovay]

I really expected that sentence to end in cats.

I had strategically fed them immediately before opening my own cans!

[swan_tower]

Almost like this is not your first rodeo!

[minoanmiss]

YUM, fish and rice, meal of champions!

[sovay]

YUM, fish and rice, meal of champions!

It is good stuff!

[asakiyume]

WELL SAID

[gwynnega]

That sounds delicious.

[sovay]

That sounds delicious.

It was, honestly.

[ethelmay]

Sounds similar to a hot-weather meal we had a couple of times recently - steamed and lightly pickled sliced zucchini (sliced lengthwise, like sandwich pickles), with brown rice and smoked herring.

[sovay]

steamed and lightly pickled sliced zucchini (sliced lengthwise, like sandwich pickles), with brown rice and smoked herring.

That also sounds very nice!

[selkie]

Did you pickle and then steam, or steam and then pickle? It sounds really good.

[ethelmay]

Sorry not to get back before. My husband was the cook, and he says actually he didn't steam the zucchini at all, just sliced them thin and pickled them for maybe thirty minutes.

[pengwern]

It sounds delicious \o/ may it fortify you to...forage for even more delicious foodstuffs!

[sovay]

may it fortify you to...forage for even more delicious foodstuffs!

Thank you!

[mrissa]

I have a thing I call Swedish Depression Supper, which is opening a tin of mustard herring and eating it on dark bread, with an apple or some raisins on the side, and it is nice and gets supper in me. Yours is better than that I bet, and Swedish Depression Supper is already nice.

(This is the lowest rung. The next highest rung is Swedish Panic Supper, which is cooking a piece of fish in grainy mustard, cooking something green, and eating them both with dark bread. SPS is for when you have a little cooking energy but cannot figure out what you want to eat. SDS is for when you just Cannot Even.)

[sovay]

Yours is better than that I bet, and Swedish Depression Supper is already nice.

Thank you! And I can see that it would be: I am not a great mustard person except on certain kinds of deli sandwiches (specifically, chopped liver and tongue), but the general principle of fish on dark bread is extremely sound by me. If we substitute herring in cream, I am all over your depression supper.

[mrissa]

If I could find tinned herring in cream that would keep, I would do that too, but the herring in cream that I can get is perishable in the fridge, so it's less durable for these purposes. Still nice, though.

I would also do it with tinned curried herring, but my source for that dried up, so if you find one and you like curry....

[sovay]

I would also do it with tinned curried herring, but my source for that dried up, so if you find one and you like curry....

I'll let you know as soon as I've bought a dozen.

[asakiyume]

A dish I make about once a week involves canned mackerel, shredded cabbage, black mustard seeds, a hot pepper, and lemon and soy sauce seasoning. Your dish with basmati rice and black pepper made me think of it. Yum.

[sovay]

A dish I make about once a week involves canned mackerel, shredded cabbage, black mustard seeds, a hot pepper, and lemon and soy sauce seasoning.

That does sound good. I keep forgetting how much I love mackerel. choco_frosh air-dropped me another couple of cans yesterday.