Sequestration Meal #594

 

While I was hiding from the smoke, I found some scallion pockets in my freezer. I do not know when I bought them, and they seemed a bit freezer burned, but I decided to cook one. One can't live by scallion pockets alone, of course, but it gave me a direction to go in, so I committed to an Asian-inspired meal. 

Next, I didn't really have a lot of green veggies around, but I had some broccoli stems, so I made a salad I'd found a recipe for at All Day I Dream about Food. It seemed fun, because it was based on spiralized broccoli. I don't usually like raw broccoli, but this salad, with its spicy sesame ginger dressing, was great!

I'm telling you this in a haphazard way because this was a haphazard meal. The rest of this was some Calrose rice, vegan bulgogi strips with scallions, pepper and onion stir fry with sesame seeds, and "Asian carrots" from a recipe at Food.com. Not pictured, I made a dipping sauce from soy sauce, sesame oil, mirin, and sriracha for the scallion pocket.

This meal was a reminder of why it is sometimes good to avoid the store. I have reasons for not doing it very often, and for not doing it deliberately to save money or what-have-you--I'll just buy far less, but still go to the store, when I'm doing more typical deck-clearing or "low spend" weeks, or whatever you call it. But there is plenty of good stuff, usually, and I probably wouldn't have found and eaten that scallion pocket without the shelter-in-place thing I had to do.

I wonder if future generations will ever take uncontaminated air for granted the way I did, before COVID? I guess time will tell.