This was so good, and I’ll pat myself on the back for grilling the fish perfectly (grilled at medium ~400F, 5 minutes a side). As far as billfish goes, sword is one of the cheaper ones right now, going at Luken’s for $11.99 a pound.

Cooking fresh pasta is also a joy, it literally takes 1-2 minutes as opposed to 5-7. Not to mention the fact that after eating all these seasoned pastas I’m not sure I can go back to just regular noodles.

The only downside to the meal? The guy on twitter who started giving me shit for swordfish being “almost endangered.”

Sir, if it’s on sale for way less than chilean sea bass, than it can’t be “almost endangered” enough for me not to eat it. Besides, this is a special once-a-year treat, I’m not out there depleting the world’s supply (although as delicious as it was I might start).

One last thing to Simon’s eat local comment above…yes, part of why I shop at Findlay market is to eat locally sourced food and support local business. However I also like Findlay because I can shop for things that aren’t local (Saigon Market anyone?).

As many a rapper has said: Hater’s keep hatin’….and missin’…out on swordfish dinners….

That took about 5 minutes, then I was in the shower. Fast forward 15 minutes, I’m out of the shower and the rice is almost done. Then I started cooking the eggs–6 six scrambled eggs minimum, although 8 leaves you with egg to the last bite. By the time those are done the rice is about there as well. I pile the eggs onto the rice, add some sriracha sauce, and mix it all together.

Shitty iPhone photo, but you get the idea

You can add any shredded cheese you like to the mix, although I didn’t have any. Instead, I went for some of the best sour cream around, from Gibb’s at Findlay Market. Made fresh on Thursdays, delivered on Friday mornings, this stuff is incredible, and it stays good for about a month!

I took some of the egg/rice mix and threw it on some Frito’s Scoops, and topped that with a little sour cream.

I’m normally left with a nice one pound container to use for any of the three meals today. I can wrap it up in a tortilla or fork it right from the container. I also like to throw it on toast with cheese–a rice and egg melt.

Naturally you can add meat to this, but again, I was working with what I had. Overall the version above costs about $10, and I’m including the sour cream, the entire bag of Fritos, the other half dozen eggs, and the bottle of sriracha sauce in that.