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Song: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs
Theme Song to Frazier: Kelsey Grammer
A meal my mother particularly loves...
is breakfast for supper.
I will frequently ask my mother what she wishes to eat before I start on supper.
On this night...
I gave my mother some choices for supper after I looked into the fridge and freezer.
She was very enthusiastic for breakfast...
so...
I do all of my mother's food shopping.
I shop at four basic food stores:
Raley's for fresh produce, bread, eggs, and fruit juices.
I stop in every few days to keep everything fresh.
Super Walmart for large stocking of items.
The Asian Market for many items I can only get there...
especially their large selection of noodles.
We love to eat noodles as we watch Korean Dramas together.
Trader Joe's for items I can only get there...
especially their Cioppino, Paiaya, Kalbi, and their fire roasted vegetables.
For those worrying about having eggs too often...
I only cook this meal every few weeks at most.
Plus...
the big cholesterol hype concerning eggs (particularly the yolks) was just that.
Eggs contain Lecithin which helps the body to utilize cholesterol...
which is only harmful if too much is released by the liver.
Cholesterol is used as the insulating material for the nerves...
and the brain is almost all cholesterol.
New research has shown a correlation to dementia and a lack of cholesterol.
Eggs are a great part of a balanced diet.
In the Paiaya I make for my mother...
I add a dozen eggs to the dish.
Eggs have some of the highest amount of easily digestible protein...
as well as healthful amounts of other necessary hormones and vitamins
not easily gotten elsewhere.
Just don't over do it.
A balanced diet
Exercise
Deep restful sleep
These are what matter.
So for a meal of three (Hana eats the same meal on such nights)...
I made scrambled eggs with a dozen eggs.
I also balance out my mother's meals with different colored vegetables...
not because of the aesthetic value...
but because differing colored fruits and vegetables have differing amounts
of key phytonutrients necessary for a healthful state of the body.
So...
we will have some green salad on one night...
some red, green and yellow on another...
or just some yellow (fire roasted corn).
For this meal...
we cooked with three pans at the same time.
We don't often eat spam...
but it is the meat of choice with breakfast (at supper).
I put a dozen eggs into the wok.
I then had my mother put in milk.
Milk is a key ingredient in making very light and fluffy scrambled eggs.
There simply is no excuse for burned, dried out, rubbery scrambled eggs.
Milk will prevent this condition...
and the eggs will be so delicious that you will forever frown upon
scrambled eggs being made without it.
Simply scramble it together...
and use a medium high heat...
while scraping the bottom and sides frequently to allow
the liquid to turn to a light fluffy solid.
You will notice the medium high heat for all three...
however, I just had the vegetables on medium high for the first portion
so I could time the cooking to be completed within minutes of each other.
As soon as the eggs and spam were almost done...
I turned the heat on high for the vegetables, to slightly sear them.
I had my mother cook the spam and vegetables...
while I did the eggs
(I just had her do this for demonstration purposes).
I just wanted to show how little oil is left in the pan after cooking the spam.
I also buy differing fruit and vegetable juices
for the same reason as I do with the vegetables for the salads.
I wish to ensure my mother eats a throughly healthful meal when I am there.
Notice the size difference between the two forks.
The smaller one on the left is a standard fork my mother uses.
The larger one is mine.
A man simply needs larger utensils.
He is a tiger sitting down for his feast.
He wishes to slam as much food into his mouth in one bite.
Buy the men in your family the correct sized utensils...
they will greatly appreciate it :)
My mother loves this simple country breakfast for supper on occasion.
Some honey drizzled croissants complimented the meal.
Two notes on honey:
1) Never give honey to infants.
There are naturally occurring botulinum spores in honey.
While it is safe for older children and adults to eat...
it could kill an infant.
2) Honey is often adulterated by mass producers.
They will add corn syrup...
water...any number of ways to cheat their customers.
We finish off every supper with a squeeze packet of Coromega Omega - 3 + Vitamin D.
Higher amounts of Omega 3 in the diet has many health
and intellectual benefits.
These are the same packets which we give Alex...
and have been giving to him for years.
Vitamin D is a very necessary hormone which is usually produced
by the body in the presence of sunlight (the UV portion).
A person outside without a shirt on...
in direct sunlight, can usually get enough within 20 minutes or so.
Well...
in the modern age...
how many of us get this much...
especially in Winter?
Vitamin D is also lacking in our diets.
Its low levels in many people have been linked to many various aliments.
Each packet gives a great supplement to a normally healthful diet...
especially more so if your diet is not fully varied with much fish included
(the cold water varieties have the most healthful Omegas in it).
There is a funny story behind this safe.
I had ordered it for my mother...
and I had placed it in her fish/relaxation room.
I keep all of the fish food in it.
Why?
Well...
although my mother is very compassionate towards all living beings...
she often allows her compassion to overrule her intellect.
She was over feeding the fish...
even after I had explained to her that I would feed the fish.
I had explained to her that overfeeding is the number one killer of fish.
I also explained to her that a carefully controlled diet would
actually extend their lives.
She kept saying that the fish "looked" hungry :)
So...
I first tried hiding the food in her house...
up high in a closet.
So...
as she, at first, could not find the fish food...
I arrived one day to find these funny floating pieces of white fluffy matter in the tanks.
I asked her what the fluffy white matter was...
much of which was stuck in the plants
and floating around the inside of the tank.
She said she was afraid the fish were starving...
so...
she put in pieces of bread for them to eat :)
So...
I let them stay to demonstrate what would happen should she continue to do so.
After a couple of days...
the bread started to form a moldy growth upon it.
Shortly afterwards...
a few fish died.
I know it sounds cruel...
but had I not done that...
she would have continued upon her mission of "mercy".
So...
I had her clean up the bread pieces...
I changed the water...
and she no longer fed them human food.
Okay...
problem solved...
I thought.
The very next day...
I arrived only to find she had gotten a step stool
after she had found the food...
and put in many times the normal amount of food in the tanks.
I then bought a small tool box with a pad lock on one side.
Well...
I arrived the following day to again find fish food all over the tanks...
and I had to clean the tanks...
again.
I asked her where she had gotten the food.
She then looked at me with an impish smile...
and proudly announced that she had pried open one side of the box...
and then pulled out the packets of fish food! :)
Okay...
Well...
and so, the safe :)
Hana resting in one of her favorite spots.
Wherever we sit...
Hana loves to sit there also.
She had a bellyful of Spam and scrambled eggs...
and she was quite content.
She loves watching the fish and listening to the music with us.
Sometimes people food is okay for dogs.
As in the wild...
they love eggs and meat.
An occasional meal of eggs is especially good for dogs...
just as they are for people.
And no...
I won't have to worry about locking up the eggs :)
