i've been in quarantine so long that i don't even want restaurant food anymore. we designated saturday for ordering takeout but it took us like 6 hours to decide on something because we don't want anything. i think not going outside has made me forget what other foods exist and all of the food content i watch on youtube has pivoted hard to stuff you can make with ~pantry essentials~. i think we also ate a lot of junky stuff this week (mac&cheese, so many cookies) so i wasn't particularly in the mood for like fried chicken.
in those 6 hours i made some red sauce for a secret future project and we ended up getting karaage and curry croquette bentos from a sushi place for dinner
recipe:
this red sauce is from
serious eats. i halved the recipe and used fresh thyme and dried mexican oregano
instead of the herbs listed, and of course skipped the onion. i did the
thing in the recipe where they have you add back in some of the reserved
canned tomatoes but i thought the sauce tasted a little better before that
addition. it's not like i'm using particularly good canned tomatoes
anyway. i've made this sauce a bunch of times before and have always
skipped that part and i recommend you do the same.
the bento boxes came with miso soup in two perfectly sized plastic takeout containers so i portioned the red sauce into those for freezing.