I'm sure anyone who is even remotely interesting has experienced what I generally refer to as a cumulative hangover. It's what occurs when you start partying on Thursday night, average roughly three hours sleep each night and go clubbing with people who buy beer in jugs, and keep going until the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
Following on of these fun binges, I generally feel like consuming fewer calories and concocting less complicated lunches than normal. This usually means I end up hanging over a bowl of soup, but today, in honour of my new food flask, I decided to try rice porridge, as described by Maki Otoh (my bento guru!) .
This bento takes a bit of planning, but the effort involved is minimal and you can wander off and leave it while you drink water/stand under a cold shower/curse the world's wine-producing nations/gulp Berocca.
For my bento, I put 60g sushi rice and two tbsp dried adzuki
beans into a pint jug and filled it to the top with water, then left it
overnight to soak.
In the morning, I crawled out of bed, tipped the whole lot
into a pan with a good pinch of salt and brought it to the boil while making
myself a cup of tea. Then I turned the heat right down and crawled back to bed.
When it was time for me to shower (about 40mins later) I checked the pan to
make sure it hadn’t dried out (you want this to be the consistency of breakfast
porridge) and hopped in the shower.
When I was ready to leave the house, I tipped half the
mixture into my thermos, half into a takeaway box for the freezer, grabbed some
toppings (chopped green onions, sesame salt, a pickled plum) and headed to the
office. By lunchtime, it was just the right kind of warm – it’s also filling
and comforting and totally guilt free.
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