Eat with Ugi

Ah so yes indeed I was able to get inside last night. Now one of the things I like to do is cook… don’t laugh it’s true. So the question is, what do you do, when you like to cook and are faced with a miniscule completely unknown kitched, and food, where you have no idea what it actually is?

Well it’s not so tough. In case anyone else wants to rough it (ha ha) like me…

Generic Minced Meat Meal I
(what an awesome name eh)

OK so it is 11 pm and you need to cook some food. Whip out the saucepan, eh it’s way too small but who cares, and stick it on the stove. Full ball, don’t be a wimp. Slurp on some olive oil and get it warmed up. If it gets too hot and starts to spit you’re too slow, be a real man and speed up. You want some garlic, so pull that out and peel it. You need an onion too so grab one of those babies, peel that guy and set him aside. OK so the stove is ridiculously fast, take off the oil before you make a huge mess… yes, you can use this, get some pepper and salt and some other spice, yeah chilli powder is good. Put the saucepan somewhere, mix in the spice with the oil and it makes awesome oil. OK dice the garlic and onion into tiny bits (this should take a few seconds, otherwise the oil will get too cold) and oh shit the meat. OK get the minced meat (this is lean beef for me) from the fridge, shit it’s frozen, ok get your sharpest knife and slice it into tiny pieces. Sweet put the oil back on the furnace and chuck in the sliced beef. Sweet pay some nice attention to it and make sure it doesn’t all stick together, it’s got to seperate, this is not impossible if you smash it up with some implement (I used a spoon) into little pieces as it cooks. OK so it’s getting a little dry, sweet this is the plan, put maybe a cup or just some amount of water in there. Huzzah it is cooler and it will get sweet sweet sweet and moist. OK spice it again. Ah yes indeed the garlic and onion, chuck that in. Now you gotta keep stabbing the meat, you can’t let it all congeal together and become gross. Not an option. OK so now we got some meat getting nice and fried up after being sealed, need flavour, OK sweet sweet awesome chilli sauce, that will go, and some of this weird soy sauce, yes awesome idea. OK so this soy sauce, I’ve got no idea what it is, strong dark special soy sauce is as far as my translation takes it. Anyway slurp all that shit in there and keep stirring. You should still have a good amount of water or you’ve buggered it. Ah indeed we can’t just eat meat, shit, that’s right we need some rice. I would have used noodles but it seems nüdel is rare around these parts, but I do have these awesome rice packets, great quality rice. Right so bang, some water boiling (love this german stove) and chuck in the rice. Be done in ten minutes, or less. Sweet. OK keep stabbing the meat, onion and garlic nice and cooked now, mmm need flavour. OK more chilli. YES sweet dried preserved chillis, super hot, slice up a few of those, chuck ém in. yum. OK now need more flavour. OK I have these chilli con carne packets, why the hell not fill one with water and chuck it in. Hey check it out, tastes OK now. Ah indeed, a much better idea would be to let the rice absorb some of this sauce with the meat. OK drain rice, it’s boiled a little, who cares, and chuck it in with the meat. Stir stir stir. Wait. Stab meat. Taste a little. OK! Tastes good.

Now whip out a piece of this gross rye bread that you purchased because you’re an idiot, and serve stupidly hot because you are in fact so stupid you need to burn yourself whenever you cook. Eat with bread.

Mmmmm. Meaty. OK so there are plenty of better things you can cook, and I must admit, if I had any other ingredients I probably would have used them. But if you want to eat like me then…. go for it :D.

At least it was spicy!

11 Responses to “Eat with Ugi”

  1. pyser Says:

    so…you cooked meat with chili and rice. gg?

    i want to believe that the germans have sweet h4xx0r induction cooktops or some such thing. do they?

    oh, and where is your photobucket?

  2. Kate Wheeler Says:

    hahahaha…

    *shakes head*

  3. Kate Says:

    I think you missed your calling in life ;)

  4. ugignadl Says:

    I’ve got to believe that yes indeed pyser, it must be such a construction. There are three settings for the hotplate. Off. On, which is hotter than the hottest setting I have at home. And really fucking hot, which is so hot I have no clue what the hell you’re supposed to do with that. It seems to heat up in a matter of seconds.

    So yes. I’m claiming trek tek.

  5. naked chef Says:

    Wow Glen u put a new perspective into cooking for one!
    I must post this recipie for others to conquer like you did, i just hope it doesnt give u a late night in da toilet with all those spices in it tho!
    Do u need any help in da kitchen if you do just let me know and i can give u simple recipies to anything but it also sounds like you having way to much fun figuring it out yourself!
    Its such fun to read your cookin adventures!!!!

  6. ugignadl Says:

    Ha ha indeed! Thanks for the comment Laura, ja indeed I know you have heaps of great recipes, I know some good ones too, but that was such an unpredictable mess I thought I had to post it! Anyway, hopefully as I continue to stock up the kitchen (it was literally empty) I will be able to make more interesting things. We will see!

    And I give no guarantees that any of this will taste any good, since it is all ad hoc :D.

    One suggestion… don’t purchase rye bread.

  7. Chris Says:

    HAHAA…. i have to make me some AWESOME OIL!! by the way… is that a registered trademark? LOL

  8. Randy Says:

    LOL, nice post man. Not sure what the rye bread was all about though.

  9. BigLoser Says:

    Sounds… uh, delicious? hmmm.

  10. Mikey Says:

    One day I may have to attempt this type of Iron Chef: German cooking ;)

  11. naked chef Says:

    I think glen should have his own show of cooking adventures in foreign countries i would definatley watch it!!!

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