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Challenge #5: Eggs: Egg Fried Rice

Ingredients
Some rice
Some vegetables (chopped)
Some nuts
Some eggs (beaten)
Peanut oil, soy sauce, coriander.

Directions

1. If the rice is already cooked (e.g. because it is from Last Night's Chinese Takeway) go to step 2. Otherwise, cook the rice
2. Heat a large dollop of peanut oil in the largest frying pan you have. Add the cooked rice and stir-fry it
3. Add the vegetables and nuts, and stir through the rice until cooked.
4. Make a well in the middle of the rice, right through to the frying pan bottom. Pour in the beaten eggs and scramble them until scrambled. Then stir into the rest of the rice.
5. Add soy sauce and coriander.
6. Eat.

Challenge #5: Eggs: "Healthy" Scrambled Eggs

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This is how my brain works: eggs are great for protein, but they are also bad for hearty/circulationy things because of their high nasty fat content. How can I make them better? I know! GARLIC!

Garlic Scrambled Eggs

Meal: Breakfast
Serves: One
Fatteningness: lots

Ingredients

• Two eggs
• Butter
• One clove of garlic*
• Black pepper
• Something to serve the eggs on - toast is traditional, but I used potato waffles

Method

• Finely (very finely) chop or crush the garlic
• Slowly heat the butter in a saucepan; when it's stopped frothing add the garlic and take it off the heat so it cooks out really slowly
• Put your bread/waffles in the toaster.
• Break your eggs directly into the pan, put the pan back on the heat, and stir constantly with a wooden spoon
• Grind the pepper into the cooking eggs
• Keep stirring
• Remove the pan from the heat about 30 seconds before the eggs are cooked; you don't want them overdone and they keep cooking in the pan.
• Plate up your toast/waffles and put the eggs on top
• Eat
• Enjoy breathing all over your collegues all day
• Enjoy farting eggy AND garlicky farts all night

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* anybody who thinks I would ACTUALLY use a mere one clove of garlic in this has never met me. I generally use at least 3. At least.

Challenge #6: Caribbean

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Theoretically it's summer, so I figured we should do something from a warm place; therefore this week's challenge is to cook something Caribbean :)

If you need some inspiration, this might help

Challenge #6: Caribbean: Caribbean Drinks

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Sorry if any of you are tee-total...

Rum was invented in the Caribbean, and thus a huge number of Caribbean cocktails are rum-based. I'm not going to rehash all those; we all know them. What I have discovered from actually knowing some people of Caribbean extraction is that most of them are inordinately fond of gin. Therefore here are two (count 'em) Caribbean drink recipes for your delectation:

1, Gully Wash

This is not a drink for the lactose intolerant, and I find it a bit sickly, but it IS very traditionally Caribbean

• Take a tall glass


• quarter fill the glass with gin, top it to half full with coconut juice, and stir


• fill to the top with chilled condensed milk, stir again


• sprinkle some fresh finely ground nutmeg on the top

You can kind of approximate the effect of this by drinking Malibu and milk mixed together - which is something that I really love, IF I am in the mood for it. But it's not quite the same as the slightly gloopy ginnyness of a proper Gully Wash.


2, Juice and Gin

Juice and Gin is a staple drink for Jamaicans in particular. This is how I make it; your actual Caribbean folks might differ. I like it VERY sharp; wussier people than me might want to add some sugar syrup to the juice mix

• Obtain a litre carton of pink grapefruit juice, some limes, and a good gin


• Juice and zest several (but not all) of the limes and mix the juice and zest with the pink grapefruit juice in a jug. For a 1 litre carton of juice you want at least 6 limes.


• Add gin to the jug - you want about one third gin to two thirds juice


• Get a tall glass and fill it with chunky ice cubes. Add a wedge of lime


• pour your juice and gin cocktail into the glass and drink slowly, especially if you've used Blackwood's Special Reserve 60% gin as I tend to

I've kind of cheated a little bit because I haven't actually made either of these yet today; however, I promise I shall have some juice and gin tonight to make up for it.