this came up as a concept last night.. but today, i made it reality! =)

the pt is to waste as little resources as possible. and no, i'm not a good chef, so i use short-cuts like curry cubes and ready-made salad sauces... you could do your own, if you like.. i'm lazy, and i make my lunch when i'm hungry... no time to mess around. =p

consists of a decent meal, a drink, and a salad.. i'm eating the salad now.. as an evening snack! lolz...

meal: soba noodles with curry
drink: chrysanthemum tea
salad (is juz vege, egg and salad sauce.. what else? =p)

meal:
for sauce:
minced pork
mixed veg
minced garlic and chopped onion
curry cube! ( i used Vermount, apple flavour, which can be found in Junction 8's NTUC, jap section..)

follow the instructions on the packet. Following Vermount's:

oil in pan, add in aromatics (garlic and onion), fry till fragant, and garlic is juz slightly browned.
add minced pork, fry around till the pork is juz cooked.
add mixed veg
add water and let it come to a boil before adding the curry cube
let it evaporate, mixing occasionaly to avoid the base from being burnt. (or to play cheat, use cornstarch.. =p)
normalli, if i would add an egg after the curry cube dissolves.. not only helps to thicken, but adds a delicious flavour... =)
normalli, too, i would cook this with left over rice.. add the rice, cold from the fridge, into the pan after the minced pork.

Soba noodles: follow the instructions: -cook for abt 6 mins in boiling water, then stop the cooking almost immediately by draining it then washing it under a running tap... cook concurently with sauce.. so the sauce is hot when you pour it over the noodles.... serve immediately!

i cooked 4 sweet peas pods and an egg (hardboiled, if you prefer soft-boiled, try 2-3 mins maxi.. -i added mine for 5 mins.) with the noodles.. i also saved the boiled water for the drink... *hey, it has all the vitamins of the sweet peas in it! juz make sure your noodles are clean, and that you scrub the egg's shell before you add it in... you know where it came frm.. =p)

drink:
dried chrysanthemum flowers
sugar (bing tang)
gou ji zi (i duno what you call it in eng.. =p)
boiled water

juz dump everything together in a pot, leave it for half-hour, and it's ready!

if possible, save the chrysanthemum flowers for another dish. they're edible. i usually juz pop them into my mouth as i drink.

salad:
cabage
tomato
red onions
sweet peas or beanspouts, or both..
hard boiled egg
Ranch dressing, or wadeva you like lah..

slice cabbage, cube the tomato, slice finely the onions, leave the spouts or peas whole to bite in.. toss in the sauce, tear the egg up into chunks. u can add more things: apple, capsicums (dun reccomend it with onion thou..), etc. the salad is generally sweet. try stickin to the theme. aiya, salads are fun! juz add anythin, should work.

a strange sense of satisfaction.. haha!