Breakfast today was Maruchan yakisoba and two soft-boiled eggs, the latter which was made by adding room-temperature eggs to a pot of furiously boiling water over the stove for one minute and then removed from heat. The eggs stay in the saucepan for another five minutes and then they're served.

Yakisoba, which means "fried noodles", is this sort of Japanese noodle dish that's usually stir-fried and served at a Japanese festival but for me this came in a microwaveable container and was cooked in the microwave. In the United States, the totally famous instant noodle company Maruchan distributes yakisoba for you to take home and take to your Kotatsu table and eat with chopsticks.

The Maruchan yakisoba were okay, not great. Maruchan tends to be great for their texture because they really have their noodle texture down wonderfully but the chicken flavors always leave something to desire. The yakisoba's flavor was, thankfully, teriyaki beef but in the end chicken probably would have been better.

The eggs were served as a sort of garnish to the yakisoba and seasoned in black pepper, sea salt and parsley flakes. The eggs were probably the best part of the dish since this is probably the first egg dish I've had that isn't sunny side up or scrambled that doesn't actually make me regret not making either of those two for the morning. Which probably says a lot.

Next time I'll just buy Maruchan's regular instant noodle soups instead.

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—Sofi

I have a reputation around here for making some pretty extravagant breakfasts. : J

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My mother brought me a cut of boneless rib eye steak from Trader Joe's. I didn't feel like preheating the oven so I looked up a pan-frying recipe instead. The steak was served with leftover brown rice.

It sucked.

The best part was eating a pomegranate fruit bar and some sour apple Bubblicious gum after. The best part of the meal itself was the rice.

I think I'll be okay with not eating steak for a while.

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—Sofi

It's breakfast time and today breakfast is a two-egg-cheese-green-onion-red-pepper omelet served with hash browns and a breakfast sausage patty. I've got a ton of little sausage patties because they were going $3/5 at the market yesterday which is a totally wonderful deal. This is probably one of my more successful attempts at omelets too. Omelets are yet another way of cooking egg that doesn't make me wish I ate scrambled or sunny side up or soft-boiled eggs that morning. Which is a good thing.


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You see that bunch of black stuff in one part of the omelet? My black pepper mill is full of crumbs right now so whenever I try to use the mill it just spits out a ton of black crumbs. When it comes to whisking eggs they seem to enjoy congregating at the bottom. Go figure~

The soundtrack for breakfast today is Vampire Weekend's eponymous first LP. Their wonderful afro-rhythms are a surprisingly fitting complement to a great morning meal.

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—Sofi