Anyways, the food I challenged myself with was fried egg rice with vegetables.
I wanted to say, that I suddenly respect people that cook rice so much, I thought it would cook just as fast as pasta (7-12 min max), not a whopping 30-40 minutes!
I started with about a cup of rice and added way too much water...Not a great start
After that, it took like 30 minutes to fully cook!
Then, tired curly decided to chop up some standard mushrooms (about 3 of em), about 2 semi-skinny carrots, a bit of dill for preference, and a small onion.
I prepared 2 eggs in a mixer, and took off the extra water from the cooked rice.
All of you home cooks will kill me for this, but here is what I did: I added the onion, let it get golden, and a bit of olive oil.
Not long after, I added my shrooms, carrots, and dill to combine with the onions and poured in about 30 milliliters of soy sauce.
After waiting like 8 minutes for the total mixture to combine and cook, I immediately put in my rice and 2 eggs.
Not even 15 seconds later, I thought 2 eggs would not be enough for the large volume of rice, so I added 2 extra, making it 4 total.
I kept stirring stirring and stirring for like a good 10 minutes.
Here is the result:
Not very pretty, but definitely a strong aroma of eggs and mushrooms and soy sauce.
For the taste test, it tastes like overcooked soft rice with tasteless vegetables and a smell of soy sauce.
It tastes a bit wet, not crispy as I expected it to.
It's not impressive, but it tasted like heaven's reward after doing 2 hours of my pre-calculus homework.
For future:
Add 2 eggs instead of 4, there feels too "eggy" inside my bowl of rice.
Pour 3 times the soy sauce, at least that might fix my monstrosity.
Cut carrots like 4 times as fine, mine look like circles and are rough to the bite compared to the rest of the dish.
Turn up the heat like 2 bars so the rice cooks to be a bit dryer.
Conclusion:
Curly can ruin any dish.
Update: The dish has given Curly a diarrhea, easily explained by Gus:
-------"curly just puts sht in"...................gets sht out
Judging by how my first "experiment" went, I will definitely not survive college without instant-ramen.