breakfast

[Muffin Man]

An amazing Egg. The whole offering looks like the perfect heavy-drinking recovery program. Maybe a Bloody Mary afterwards?

[RAGER]

Unfortunately I'm at work but I'm overdue for hitting an early brunch before work on a Sunday. Breakfast board and oysters and couple drinks. Today would have been perfect. Shitty weather and it's dead dead dead here.

[RAGER]

I think the Thais call congee Jok ("joke").  I think I've only congee maybe once. Yours looks good!

Yeah you're right. This would be jok.  Khao tom is not as cooked down and more brothy. Both easy to make.

[RAGER]

Yam khai dao

[renfield]

Is that a stainless steel wok? Or did you transfer the fried eggs to a bowl?

[RAGER]

Cuisinart wok. I'm haute.

[RAGER]

I'm normal. See?

Sunday breakfast.

[RAGER]

Chicken mushroom broccoli Chinese celery congee.

[RAGER]

Breakfast sando.

[Muffin Man]

Decadent! Did not expect to see parm.

[RAGER]

That's pecorino romano and it crisp up nicely on the bread.

[RAGER]

Kalam phat nam plaa kai dao.

Stir fried cabbage with garlic, white pepper, and fish sauce. I added yu choy and a fried egg.

[mortlock]

baloney brek sand. 2 versions.

[Muffin Man]

Totally smashable. Looks like a specialty of yours? Man those look good - onion is off the charts - and the cheese. What kinda bread is that and brand of cheese (Wisonconny cheese?)? Good looking cheese.

[mortlock]

the bread is from a local bakery and it is awesome.
the cheese is great lakes sharp cheddar.
http://martusciellos.com/Breads.php

[Muffin Man]

Good dealio - bread and cheese - local baker makes a cheeseloaf. I'll chunk it up for dipping in soup. Block cheese flavor is weak around here so I've got to make plans. Going to copy your sandwich after making a run to the deli for real balogna.

[mortlock]

i cant wait to see your version of this american classic.

[Jor el]

   Block Cheese will bind you up.


   ....which will lead to clogging Sleestalk's kitchen sink.

[Muffin Man]

That's true. I know better too, no need for excess.

[RAGER]

No matter what you call it, rice porridge, congee, jok, babor, khao piak it's one f my very favorite things for breakfast. Simple or busy.

This ones got a lot going on.

[Lumpy]

Yeah I'm not sure that "khao tom" was wrong after all. Ask a Thai person what the difference between jok and khao tom is.

[RAGER]

Jok seems to me to be more like congee where it's cooked down to a porridge where as khao tom is cooked less and leaves the grains of rice whole. I've also seen khao tom referred to as a dessert from sticky rice steamed 8n banana leaves with other ingredients.

I'm going to make myself some cheat sheets with a bunch of different terminology so I don't always have to look things up so much. The spellings are all over the place though. Kaeng/gaeng, moo/muu, gai/kai.

[RAGER]

Steel cut oats congee with gai lan fried egg fermented red tofu and Szechuan chili oil. Damn good. Good fiber from the oats and less glycemic.

[Muffin Man]

Mighty Fine

[Jor el]

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