If there’s no toast, give me couscous!

It was 7:15 AM and I had been up for nearly two hours. Lecture finished, I need some breakfast. One last egg left in the fridge, I was determined to try frying an egg for the first time on my new cast iron skillet but alas, there was nothing to eat the egg with. No bread, stale or otherwise, in the house. Not even any lavash or melba toast. And I wanted my yolk soft so I need something to dip in or something that would absorb it. Open kitchen cabinets. Sigh. Aha! Couscous! That’ll work! While the skillet heated, I added 1/3 cup of couscous to a bowl, added the same amount of hot water, and covered. While it soaked, I washed and chopped a few carrot greens (about 1/2 a cup’s worth). Once the skillet was hot, I added a bit of olive oil, and the egg, moving it to the side of the pan once the bottom was set. A bit more olive oil, the carrot greens, and then the fluffed up couscous to mix in and warm through. I then scooped it all onto a bowl and set the egg on top. It could make a nice quick lunch as well. It was nice and it took as long as it takes to make toast…

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