leftover gourmand

i finally ran out of cooking gas today. i rarely cook so i always find it hard to keep track of how long it takes to use up the content of one tank.

i ran out of bread, too, so i only had one option left — other than going out to eat — scrounge for whatever leftover food i could find in the fridge. after going through an array of unappetizing and strange-looking items, i finally took out a couple of eggs. how to cook them — now that’s the $64 question.

driven by hunger (i finally hit the gym yesterday after a 2-month hiatus), i dusted off my rarely-seen-and-used oven toaster and wondered what to do next. then i placed the scrambled eggs on a folded-up aluminum foil container and slid the whole thing in.

i haven’t really cooked eggs this way before so i wasn’t too sure about the outcome. i figured as long as it’s cooked my stomach wouldn’t know the difference anyway (it’s been growling since i woke up).

for good measure, i added a couple of leftover sausages and a half-eaten barbecue chicken, which i bought about 4 days days ago, and a biggie pandesal that i found lurking among the cookies that i packed away last night.

ping.

finally. i took out the scrambled eggs first. *grin* it looked like yellowy, puffed-up square bibingka. hmmm. what do you know, it actually worked! it tasted ok. maybe not as tasty as it could have been if cooked over a stove, but it was edible. next came the chicken, sausages and pandesal, and they looked brown and yummy.

for the next few minutes i was in hog heaven.

normally leftover food leave me cold, but today i had a scrumptious feast out of these half-forgotten stuff. maybe it was because i was really hungry. whatever. at least it cleared away some space in my fridge. and oh yeah, it gave me a nifty excuse to write. hee-haw![my only regret is that i forgot to snap a picture of my feast before i gulped it down.]