#you could add a little soy sauce and mirin towards the end of cooking let it thicken into a sort of glaze

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peak of season zucchini halved lengthways, scored crisscross on the cut side and fried both sides in a shallow pool of fresh green olive oil with the lid on for most of the cooking time, patted on a paper towel so they're not greasy, sprinkled with flaky sea salt, chopped into mouthfuls and eaten on a bowl of rice in the garden on a breezy summer afternoon. zucchini my sexy beautiful summertime girlfriend.

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What's up, anime foodies, we're back for another round of making delicious sakuga munchies, and today we've got a great set for the week: Revolutionary Girl Utena!

Have you heard, have you heard? This show feeds us a lot of delicious meals, from opening night dorm feast (soup/salad/bread), to exploding curry, to Wakaba's bento ("mostly instant"), to takoyaki and yakisoba, to delicious steak, to delicious fried eggs, to delicious cake, to delicious brandy-stewed rose hips jam.

It all culminates here, though: the Lunch Called Disassociation.

Now, we never get to see the eventual lunch in the show, so there are a few possible interpretations we'll be making. What we know for sure are the following ingredients: -Egg -Asparagus -Salmon

For all meals, we will assume that the salmon and asparagus have been prepared the same way.

The original footage states that the salmon is dinner leftovers. We'll just use the foil-steamed method as seen in Today's Menu for the Emiya Family, episode 2. Osmose excess liquid from fillet using salt/sake for 10 minutes, wrap fillet in foil with seasoning and veggies of choice (picture below shows rehydrated garlic power and onion flakes, plus a chimichurri seasoning mix), steam in a covered pan over medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes. The original recipe also calls for butter, but I've found that the salmon itself contains enough fat.

saumon la filet révolutionnaire

One can include the asparagus in the foil packets, but in the original footage, Utena said that she planned to boil the asparagus, which implies that it was not a part of the salmon leftovers, that she would cook them from fresh. So we're going to do a blanch: Snap off the woody end of each stalk. Submerge stalks in salted boiling water for 30-40 seconds, then stop the cooking process with an ice bath. (Be very liberal with the amount of salt in the water. There has to be enough for saltiness to osmose into the asparagus with only 30 seconds of exposure!) The blanched asparagus should be bright green, no browning. Generally, 6 stalks will be one meal serving.

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In the first iteration of the proposed lunch, eggs are specified as "tamagoyaki." This is rolled egg omelette, which is then often sliced like a sausage. Tamagoyaki points towards a bento configuration. (Which means, also make some rice by whichever is your usual method.)

There are many instruction videos out there for tamagoyaki, but here's a short outline: The bento serving shown below is half of a roll made with 2 eggs. 2 eggs is usually the minimum amount to make a roll in a small pan. A common ratio is 3 tablespoons (or less) of flavoring liquids to 4 eggs. Flavoring liquids can be any combination of mirin, dashi (use excess for miso soup), soy sauce, or rice vinegar. Season with salt, sugar, miso, or MSG to make up the flavor profiles for the liquids that are left out. Beat eggs, flavoring liquids, and seasoning together. Oil a small pan and put over medium heat. Pour a thin layer of egg on the pan (about 1/3-1/2 of your eggs), let it solidify a little, before beginning to roll. after the first roll, push to the side, re-oil the pan, add remaining egg mix, roll again. Repeat untill all egg mixture is used. Remove roll from heat, and slice after cooling.

Assemble your bento! The non-rice incredients can be kept separate from each other using cupcake wrappers, or lettuce leaves for extra salad. -Half rice, as most all bento do -Salmon fillet, cut to fit the bento -Tamagoyaki -Blanched asparagus salad. Marinate in or spritz with dressing of choice. (lemon juice, vinaigrette, or for marinade, a mixture of gojujang/mirin/miso/water.)

Utena making lunch for them is a new development, though. In the first two arcs, the dorm serves dinner, and Utena buys lunch from and has tea in the courtyard cafeteria, or buys packaged buns and snacks.

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In the second iteration of the proposed lunch, the idea of sandwiches is brought up. This specific version is described in a "salmon/egg salad sandwich" way, where the "filling" is a single mash of all ingredients.

Mash salmon and hardboiled egg with mayonnaise together with a fork. Cut asparagus into 1/2-inch pieces, blanch, and mix into filling. Add a thin layer of mayonnaise to the bread before adding filling, then press the sandwich together. To get a little bit fancier, use two hardboiled eggs cooked for different time periods, in order to provide two different textures of yolk. Boil one for 8.5 minutes (more jammy), and the other for 10.5 minutes (more firm). If the yolks are undercooked for whatever reason, just microwave them for a minute or so, until they reach the desired texture.

Pro-tip: Talk about making this sandwich when you're trapped in a car with someone you don't want to be trapped in a car with

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Those are the two lunches talked about in the show, but holy shit I have so much salmon and asparagus still left I need to use them upof course, there are a few different sandwich variations one can make with the same ingredients. In the following two pictures, there’s mayo spread on the bread, and some honey mustard sauce drizzled on the middle asparagus layer.

-salmon, asparagus,sliced hard-boiled egg

Nanami worked so hard to supply all these eggs. Press f to have a glass of milk to honor her sacrifice.

-salmon, asparagus, scrambled eggs (This configuration is very similar to the sandwich seen in Today's Menu for the Emiya Family, episode 4, but with salmon substituting for bacon.)

Today's Menu for the HimEmiya Family

Later in the week, if the asparagus is going too mushy to be used fresh, consider blending it with oil (or cream of choice) and seasoning into a sauce/dressing.

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(Even though the following suggestions weren't brought up by Utena at all in the original footage, we've STILL got ingredients left to use up, so we WILL, DAMMIT)

Given that we got to assume rice for the bento earlier, lunch could be leftovers onigiri! -salmon/asparagus -asparagus/scrambled egg

Crumble! Crumble like the shining castle in the sky marking you as a failure of a duelist!

Finally, if things really roll over from leftovers lunch to leftovers dinner (after all, the salmon is actually probably from The Breakfast The Day Before The Lunch Called Disassociation, because Utena had dinner at the hotel, spent all day at the amusement park, and worried about the bread from that morning), you can never go wrong with leftovers fried rice.

Can you hear that? It's a microwave ding. I get to actually reheat things for lunch. Because I'M AN ADULT. *car revs*

And there you have it! An entire work-week's worth of the Lunch Called Disassociation! Make sure to make double servings, for you and your roommate!