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I have continued to eat. Two inch and a half thick ribeyes put me back in the game. I have been trying to eat enough and yet I always feel hungry. Like sleep, not eating enough will sneak up on you, and like thirst you cannot simply drink enough to rehydrate quickly. When I fall, hydration is sort of cared for mindlessly if probably not perfectly, but food is not. I could eat a lot of food for a lot of days just to get my body back on track. Actually, that would help a good deal.
I have been experimenting with rice and tuna, a lot, lately. Into that I have started adding random cans of vegetables. As well, I have been adding spice. To be honest, heavy and hot works far better than merely savory. Some say savory can include hot, I should add, but not how I see things. Hot is all on it's own to my mind. In any case, a bit of the hottest cayenne I have found, a bit of ginger, some black fresh ground pepper, and salt, put over canned tuna fried in butter, with a good shovel of rice on top, turns into a heavier warming edible delight. I may even experiment with adding allspice or cinnamon.
I suppose what I am trying to say is... food does not have to be fancy to be quite satisfying. Though I actually do not care for beans and rice together, I love having each with various meats. I am not so sure about tuna and beans, texturally at least, it seems wrong. But tuna and rice provides a great deal of good food, nutrients, calories, and such. I could even see it without the butter, but a fat of some kind would always help. And a can of various green or red vegetables filled the plate out wonderfully. Asparagus, spinach, and carrots have been tried so far. Though I am guessing pumpkin, squash, okra, and a number of other veggies might be wonderful too. I just wanted to pass that along. Experiment!
Though I am not messing with haute cuisine much lately, what I do is pleasing, affordable, and within range of my capacities, finances, and the direction I am going. Bon appetit!
Butter fried tuna--I had never...considered.
ReplyDeleteNow I am curious and will need to try.
Oh, be careful. It is a tasty thing indeed. I did not find a recipe. I was just hungry but tired of the typical way tuna tasted and, looking over the options, my mind PINGED when it thought of butter and tuna. Oh and am I happy. I am very interested in your gastronomical experience. Last night I tried canned (storebought albeit) chicken. Meh, I think shoeleather might be tastier, or at least have some flavor. But I did not saute it in butter first either. On purpose though, I wanted to taste it in the raw. Next time I will saute first.
ReplyDeleteIt may have been when I found out you can can butter, at home, that butter started to become a part of my storage food supply considerations. Hmm, by the way, I purchased a decent little amount of it recently on sale and need to get both canned butter and ghee up. I figured having a bit of each would not hurt at all. I have heard it is not the tastiest. But then again, different tastes and the notion that hunger can be one of the finest spices makes the matter less significant. Plus, you will eat what you have to and to some huge degree, you will get used to it. Good luck on the sampling.