cook: making lunch as therapy

My Sadie is not long for his world, which has me prematurely crying and grieving and then cuddling and kissing her. Sadie was at the pet emergency hospital, and I had no choice but to wait at home for her tests and a diagnosis before bringing her home. While agonizing over my dog, the leftover jasmine rice, half a jar of kimchi and the remnants of gochuchang called for being used up in fried rice which I had not made in a few months. Kimchi fried rice is a no-recipe recipe. Massage a few drops of sesame oil over grains of stale rice. Chop kimchi and then squeeze all the fermented chili juice out of the cabbage into a bowl into which you also add soy sauce and gochuchang sauce.  With no recipe for amounts, taste and adjust to your liking.  

  

I had also chopped a few cloves of garlic and added it to the rice and found some Portugese linguica sausage in the fridge to include in the mise en place next to the stove. Don't forget to also chop some scallions, and while I was at it, Green Zebra tomatoes to add more sweetness and make the rice more vegetal.

 

While cooking, I impulsively added the rest of a Trader Joe's healthy veggie mix of broccoli, carrots, green cabbage, red cabbage, jicama, green bell pepper, radish, celery as well as the gochuchang, kimchi juice and soy sauce mixture to the crisping kimchi. Continue cooking until all the steam is driven off over medium high heat.

Next the rice and the rest of the gochuchang, soy sauce and kimchi sauce.

 

Don't forget to garnish with the scallions and chives. I also impulsively fried a can of low sodium Spam.

And if I'm going to brown Spam, then I might as well fry an egg, over easy please.

T'was a delicious lunch despite my worry over my poor dog.

I gave fried rice and Spam to Cecilia and still have enough leftover lunch for another dinner this week.