One day back at home, my mom went on a cleaning spree and decided to dispose of old magazines. It was one of those rare days that I had free time on my hands, so armed with unused clear books, I checked the old issues of YUMMY Magazine and took the recipes I felt I would be able to *attempt* to make on my own.
Over the weekend, I finally resolved to start using the clear book of recipes. To be smart with grocery shopping, I decided to focus on one key ingredient per week. This week, it's all about TUNA (my fave!). So I chose my recipes, listed down the ingredients, and grocery-shopped with a clear idea of what I wanted to make, but not really knowing when I would get around to doing it.
And then today, I was all set to just add a can of tuna to leftover rice when ding ding ding!!! Might as well try THIS recipe I'm fully prepared for:
All I needed were the following ingredients:
To make sure that I could easily glance at the recipe without taking up any counter space, I decided to test this Pinterest hack. It really does make life easier (even if it doesn't look very glamorous, haha!):
Then I set out to follow the instructions:
Sauteed the garlic first, then the whole can of tuna. Added the rice, then mixed it all together. After mixing it, I added the whole can of corn, the sliced onions, and the beaten eggs. I skipped adding bagoong because I'm not really a fan. I figured since the recipe said "flavor with anchovy sauce to taste" that meant it was optional?
I kinda panicked a little after I mixed everything because I dumped the whole can of corn into the pan --corn juice (water? broth?) and all-- so it looked like it was getting watery. These recipes really need to spell it out, if you need to drain stuff first before adding them into the pan! So I decided to just put the pan on high heat (in my head I was thinking, maybe the corn juice/water/broth thingy would evaporate...?) and mix mix mix everything. Plus, the egg was raw, and I was getting praning that it wasn't cooking, so I figured the high heat would cook it even if I couldn't really see it.
The consistency eventually improved, so WHEW!!!
I could hear the husband waking up, getting ready for work, so I decided to put some in his tupperware already. Even filling up the tupperware, there was still enough left over for breakfast (one cup of rice for each of us):
The verdict: Too much corn and not enough tuna. The recipe didn't really specify sizes in grams and just said "one can", so I picked up the available sizes I saw. Today I learned that when the recipe just provides number of cans as the measurement, I should try to imagine the ratios even at the grocery. I could have added one more can of tuna or used just half the can of corn. So this is why they say you shouldn't trust the recipe blindly. Next time I make this recipe again, I know what adjustments to make!
Good way to start the week!
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