Chicken Fried Rice with Vegetables

Ingredients:
1 piece chicken breast
1 red pepper, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 green onion, chopped
2 cups cooked rice
olive oil
soy sauce
chopped garlic, salt and pepper to taste

Brown chicken in skillet with garlic, salt, pepper and oil. Add chopped carrot and rice. Stir-fry and cover. Add red peppers and soy sauce. Stir-fry and eat.

Estimated nutritional value:
400 calories, 5 grams fat, 19 grams protein

1-Minute Tuna Don

Ingredients:
1/2 can light tuna
1 egg
1 bowl brown rice
soy sauce

Spread can of tuna over bowl of rice. Crack an egg over it. Pour soy sauce over egg. Microwave for 1 minute on high, or until egg is cooked.

This was one of the quickest, most desperate dinners I've ever made. Inspired by exam week. High in protein, iron, vitamin B12 - and passably delicious.

Estimated nutritional value:
360 calories, 6 grams fat, 34 grams protein

Introduction

Being a full-time college student and a part-time dreamer, I generally consider any activity that isn't worrying or casual dating a pretty low priority. Eating is one of these activities.

I mean, I love good food. I really do. But for the most part, I eat what's around, when it's around. I can eat from a hundred-dollar pot of sharkfin stew or from a plastic bag of cereal. And let's be honest; when I'm the cook, my dinner is more likely to be the latter than the former.

Over the last couple of years, I've experimented extensively with one-dish meals created first from fresh groceries, then from meal leftovers, and then from dried and canned goods. Sometimes it's only after condiments take over as the main course of a meal that I'll pick up fresh groceries again.

So this blog isn't about creating obscure or fancy cuisine. It's about buying seasonal food and vegetables that are cheap and using them in everything. It's about keeping sacks of onions and potatoes in the cupboard so that, if necessary, all three meals of the day can be made with the two as main ingredients. Most of all, it's about exhausting anything and everything left in my kitchen so I won't have to go to the market today.