Hmmm

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A handful of thoughts

• Imagining the emptiness and pain when I will have to give up somebody in order to fulfil something. Dream or Lover?
• Wondering if I am losing my child-like perspective, and therefore, my youth and the heart and spirit that give it strength
• Am I too self-absorbed and do I deserve what I am getting in life?
• Collars and cut and clothes and fabric
• Sleep deprivation
• The warmth I feel when he is with me
• Am I taking too much for granted?
• Money problems
• Getting rid of my spare tyre
• Getting down to doing all that craftwork, drawing, painting, and etc. stuff that I've put aside for the longest time
• How the heck am I supposed to break out of this cycle???

Whole meal in a pot'o'rice

I'm brainstorming a bunch of easy-to-cook one-pot meals for lunchbox purposes...to save money, of course. Maybe completely vegetarian, maybe completely oil-free. Healthy eating!

Something pseudo-Korean, to be all dumped in a rice-cooker:
white and brown rice, a variety of mushrooms (button, straw, abalone, etc), diced red carrots, snow peas, maybe some yellow capsicum, and a bit of Taiwanese sausage, all cooked in chicken broth, then topped with pine nuts, toasted nori seaweed, and bonito flakes.

Quickie soup:
Add chicken stock to cucumber, white/red carrots, corn cobs, sweet potatoes/potatoes, maybe even leafy veggies like watercress, quickly boil together or microwave, then beat an egg into the mix. Tofu optional, for protein.

Super-chawanmushi (can't be lunchboxed; it's a cook-now-eat-now dish):
Pork/chicken cubes or mince, prawns, squid, crab-sticks, carrot cubes, corn nibblets, dried Chinese mushrooms, broccoli/cauliflower pieces, beaten eggs, water, all mixed and steamed or microwaved to form a savoury egg-pudding dish.

There's also Tofu Salad, where you can top it off with lots of different toppings...that's kind of fun if the silken tofu doesn't turn into mush.

Hmmm...gotta dream up some more...