What's up for lunch?

I found a big slab of imported corned beef in my kitchen and do not know what to do with it. Feeling lazy and never wanting to prepare a complicated meal I resort to innovate. What comes to mind is red.

I have leftover red rice. The corned beef is red meat. Sambal is red chili paste. There is a red wine in the corner. So I fried my rice and put in the corned beef and sambal. I have a meal and viand all in one. All red.

One doesn't have to buy expensive food or go to expensive restaurants to have a good meal. You can make your own.

That deserved a dark chocolate and coffee.

What's for brunch?

This is again a "reinvention" of the things we think were just plain and usual inside our kitchen cupboards.

A Knorr Chicken Sopas laid limp in one of the corners of my cabinet. Checking on the expiry date and found it okay for consumption, I diced some fresh tomatoes and red onions and started making soup.

After checking the pasta if it has become tender, I put in the tomatoes and onions, adding sambal to make it palatable. When done, the soup was more like a tomato soup rather than the commercialized chicken sopas. A whole wheat bread went well with it. Perfect!

For dessert? Hazelnut coffee and cappuccino-flavored choco chips cookies completed my meal.

Naa pay sobra, mangaon ta?