I try to teach my kid - to have the strength of old grandmothers. . To be able to stop a mule, press a flower, toss a burglar, make a good breakfast. . To break the construction trope of ‘fast cheap and good’, pick 2. No: congee is all 3. Use what you have, and be sparing in all things, be small ‘c’ conservative and it will serve you well. A tiny handful of odds and ends, fresh, but small. And if you didn’t have an old grandmudder who could stop a mule, why then, create the fictional archetype and learn how to cook from that recipe. Like i did (though i did get some chops from me old granny; for the rest, i invented another; who cares as long as breakfast is ready) [plus enough for lunch too] Congee base = leftover rice w 8 cups of water = broth / [on at 5am, ready at 5:20] - w mushroom stems and herb stems and onion bottoms for more flavor, because the grandmothers, they’re putting them in a dish for later. broth on: then cutting the oldest* toughest leaves from collards, kale, cabbage = toss them in, because more flavor / but not too long, because ‘cabbage-y’ a small bit of pork larb from last night’s dinner a radish cut up fried shallots while everything else cooking together a spoonful of kimchi a small bit of chives mint parsley coriander 1 fried duck egg cooked in the residual oil from shallot cooking cut up szchewann salt This collection of grandmothers, they’re Hungarian, Chinese, and Korean, and it’s not even 5:30 yet and you’re done. #congee #jook #grandmother #parenting #berkshires #garden #larb #herbs #duckeggs #leftovers #quarantinelife https://www.instagram.com/p/CApuRv0nwmr/?igshid=1adofkr8w8jqx