I am a huge fan of eggs, and you may not have known this, but they are almost a complete food, they only lack in significant amounts of vitamin C, and probably could have a bit more fat in them. But a clod of butter, and some frozen peas and vegetables, and you can eat for a very small budget.
This is my frypan, and my hotplate. I prefer gas, but this works ok, so long as you warm it up for a few minutes before you start.
Here assembled are the ingredients. Eggs, some atlantic sea salt from the french island of Gerand, a chunk of butter, and a bag of frozen veg, in this case, carrots and peas.
First I throw the butter in the pan, and the frozen veg. They take a little while to thaw out and warm up, and they are nicer when they are heated. But I don't like to cook them much, it depletes the nutrients, especially C and B vitamins. Note that I am striving to stick to a GAPS diet, and except for when I buy potato or corn based high carb snacks (also usually high fat) I mostly eat only high protein and high vitamin vegetables.
I throw in about a heaped teaspoon of the atlantic ocean sea salt. It is full of essential minerals like iodine and selenium, regular table salt is refined purified sodium chloride, and without the magnesium, sulphates, iodine, selenium, zinc, and all the rest, it's nearly worthless to your body.
After putting this together, I wait for the butter to melt fully, break up the clumps of frozen bits, and mix through the salt into the mix. This is the first part of the process.
Next, I crack open 4 eggs, and I try not to leave them like this too long, I just wanted to get a photo for you to see. I then spend about 3-4 minutes breaking it up and stirring it around, to make sure it mixes up well and cooks until it is just about fully congealed.
The final result, sitting in the pan. It can be nice to leave it like this a little while, so the eggs brown up a little on the bottom.
Finally, I serve it up to my bowl. I eat it with a spoon, although I used to always like teaspoons, and even et my breakfast cereal with one. I don't know why I do this, I am a bit strange. I used to generally use a fork for this, but the big spoon works better.
This is pretty much my staple diet. I don't add any spices, black pepper makes my teeth sensitive, chilli and paprika give me asthma, as do onions and garlic. I do kinda miss these things, but my insides don't like them.
It is cheap and fast, I generally only spend about 10 minutes preparing it altogether, and it gives me 'everything the body needs'. No, it doesn't taste like oatmeal, or tunafish. Actually, oatmeal is terrible for me, gives me gastric reflux and makes me sleepy. This is much better for my gut and my brain, so this is what I cook for myself. I can eat this all day long, it never gets boring for me. I love eggs to bits.
I do like it when I can get some beef or lamb mince instead of eggs, and I haven't bought any for a while, but I really enjoyed lard. Lard is amazing stuff. I used to put a glob about the size of that spoon into my cooking, and I could literally not feel hungry all day after that.
I spent a little time on a fastidious, zero carb diet, and to be honest, I kinda miss it. It didn't give me so much more energy, but I didn't spend much time cooking or eating either. Not getting my allergy reaction (bronchoconstriction) is the big bonus for me.
Sure, I drink beer, fairly often, but according to the GAPS diet specifications, this is a carbohydrate with low irritant effects. It's also very cheap here, about EUR0.75 gives you 1.2L of nice, corn-protein fined Pirinsko Svetlo (lager), which is my favourite Bulgarian beer. The proteins remaining after fining out all the foggy particles in beer, I can taste them. Mostly they use milk, egg and gelatin proteins to do it. Pirinsko's trademark fresh taste is in a large part from the fact they settle out the haze with corn protein (semolina). I don't think many beer makers use this fining agent, but it sure does add something to the flavour, which you will enjoy without even realising what it is. I never looked at the label until a long time after acquiring the taste for it, and then I noticed that it specifies it as an ingredient.
Notes
I should note, that this is the main dish I make, and this is how I managed to get through a month paying my bills just by writing on Steem. I would love to make more interesting food than this, but it is tasty enough and keeps my belly happy for 12 hours.
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
