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First the chili: I left a half can of Hormel chili (turkey, no beans variety) out last night around 10 PM. I went to bed later without putting it away (major procedural error, right before going to bed I'm supposed to look around the kitchen for things like that, but I didn't. DAMMIT I should make a f'ing sign bedside to remind me).
When I got up at 515am there it was on top of the refrigerator. Fortunately it smells and tastes OK. So I decided to finish it off soon (it's in the freezer now for an hour to fast cool it down, but now that I think about it, I shoulda just heated it up and kept it hot - LATER: it's heating up, currently at the ideal temperature for smelling and tasting, and it's fine).
(AND a jar of milk, nearly a quart, was also left on top of the refrigerator, I also put it in the freezer to fast cool it. Fortunately it was mostly frozen at bedtime.)
OK, that explains the chili.
What is "Breakfast rice"? I extremely very rarely have rice for breakfast. Rather, I rotate between cereal and oatmeal. But yesterday A.M., because I was falling behind quota on veggies (the target, which I have been maintaining for months, is an average 3 cups veggies/day), I decided to have some veggies for breakfast and decided that would go good with rice and my use-on-everything bean sauce. So I cooked up a small batch of "breakfast rice". and had rice + 1 cup veggies. That was yesterday morning.
Back to this morning: shortly, I will finish off the leftover breakfast rice batch with a cup of steamed veggies, and pour the Hormel chili on top of it all.
LATER: It's done cooking and is ready to eat -- OMFG, this is a HUGE amount for breakfast, sigh. This is more like a big dinner.
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