Bring Back the Lunch Thread !!!!

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Serious question: for the eggs, does your office have a stove, did you buy them, or are you WFH?

I have glass (flat-bottomed) meal-prep containers from Amazon. So, I fried the eggs at home to about 70-80% done (just to get some color, yolk is still runny) and put them on a bed of jasmine rice, and top off with some hot sauce. At the office we have this thing: https://myhotlogic.com/products-hl/hotlogic-8/

So, I just pop it in when I get into the office and it's at about 180-190°F by time I get to it a few hours later. Mmm!

...Soup is from a can. Amy's low sodium. I'm basic.

And, strangely (maybe not, this is an old, old, old gov't office) we actually DO have a full sized electric range in the break room...but no one uses it. I think that would be weird.

Edit: @JayKay PE Ha! We don't have a WFH policy. It's the gov't...

 

[JayKay PE]

I have glass (flat-bottomed) meal-prep containers from Amazon. So, I fried the eggs at home to about 70-80% done (just to get some color, yolk is still runny) and put them on a bed of jasmine rice, and top off with some hot sauce. At the office we have this thing: https://myhotlogic.com/products-hl/hotlogic-8/

So, I just pop it in when I get into the office and it's at about 180-190°F by time I get to it a few hours later. Mmm!

...Soup is from a can. Amy's low sodium. I'm basic.

And, strangely (maybe not, this is an old, old, old gov't office) we actually DO have a full sized electric range in the break room...but no one uses it. I think that would be weird.

Edit: @JayKay PE Ha! We don't have a WFH policy. It's the gov't...

Lololol, I am gov't too, but we don't have anything fancy like that!  With an ultra cool, slow heat, lunch-thingy!!!  As for soup from a can...I throw that in my desk drawer when I know I have nothing else, but I am def going to be making curry butternut squash soup tomorrow.  Good, thick, soup for winter is so easy to make.  Might make another batch of potato soup (but first I need to check my freezer to make sure I don't have one last container lurching around).

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

but first I need to check my freezer to make sure I don't have one last container lurching around

Lol, you mean your batch of like....25 gallons of soup you made last time?? :rotflmao:

Real question: do you throw the curry in midway or do you bloom the spices before the liquids go in? Or both? Or...neither? (Sorry if this should be in the cooking thread, this is live TV, folks)

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Tuna pouch, orange.

At this point, 50% of your body composition is probably tuna and citrus.

 

[JayKay PE]

Lol, you mean your batch of like....25 gallons of soup you made last time?? :rotflmao:

Real question: do you throw the curry in midway or do you bloom the spices before the liquids go in? Or both? Or...neither? (Sorry if this should be in the cooking thread, this is live TV, folks)

I have eaten all that soup.  I ******* love soup.  It's a liquid with ultra calories and it warms me up from the inside.

For all my stove top soups, I try to make the base of spices (minus salt and pepper) + other aromatics (think onions + garlic + shallots) before I add my liquid and other add-ins.  I usually saute with butter or oil for around 5-minutes/whatev until it smells nice.  Depending on what the base veggie of the soup is (like potato, or squash), I sometimes add them in with the spices to dry rub it/let it soften a bit by semi-steaming it, but usually I just plop the veggies in with the liquid and boil away because I'm lazy.  Not sure I've ever specifically 'bloomed' my spices. I always add salt and pepper later after cooking, since it means I can store it 'unflavored' and I can modify it based on if I'm putting it on rice/mixing it with something else.

 

[leggo PE]

My lunch is going to be a poke bowl! But, should I get the salmon or the spicy tuna?? Referencing the Golden State and the Everybody Loves Spicy Tuna poke bowls from this menu: http://bigfishlittlefishpoke.com/menu.html

 

[Orchid PE]

At this point, 50% of your body composition is probably tuna and citrus.

My head looks like an orange, and my body a tuna.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

My lunch is going to be a poke bowl! But, should I get the salmon or the spicy tuna?? Referencing the Golden State and the Everybody Loves Spicy Tuna poke bowls from this menu: http://bigfishlittlefishpoke.com/menu.html

I'm team Spicy Tuna.

 

[leggo PE]

I'm team Spicy Tuna.

I could also make my own, which is a highly enticing option...

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I could also make my own, which is a highly enticing option...

100% agree. But, I also agree that food always tastes better if someone else makes it for you.

 

[JayKay PE]

My head looks like an orange, and my body a tuna.

Better than the opposite: body of an orange and a tuna head.

 

[Orchid PE]

Gotta get dem omegaz.

 

[Orchid PE]

I also eat a banana every day, so [insert banana joke here].

 

[JayKay PE]

Gotta get dem omegaz.

I just take it in multiple giant fish oil pills.  mmmmm 1800 mg x2 day.

 

[Orchid PE]

I just take it in multiple giant fish oil pills.  mmmmm 1800 mg x2 day.

I take one of them. Plus some zinc an the D.

 

[JayKay PE]

I take one of them. Plus some zinc an the D.

Lol, my doctor put me on an aggressive fish oil regime due to really high triglycerides.  I take x2 1g fish oil pills x2 a day.  The pills are the ultra concentrated stuff that is around 900mg of actual omega whatever.  All I know is it dropped my triglycerides from 500+ to around 220 in 2 months and he wants me to stay on them for a while longer.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

aggressive fish oil

Another great punk band name.

 

[leggo PE]

100% agree. But, I also agree that food always tastes better if someone else makes it for you.

Well, I did end up making my own... Got spicy tuna and salmon, and a variety of other things.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Well, I did end up making my own... Got spicy tuna and salmon, and a variety of other things.

Did you go home for lunch? Or, how did you make it at the office?

 

[leggo PE]

Did you go home for lunch? Or, how did you make it at the office?

Haha, I customized a bowl at that restaurant.