How to Make Lunch

Step One: Get hungry. Wander listlessly about the kitchen for a bit, opening cupboards, closing them, and opening them again just a few minutes later in hopes it's a magic cupboard and there is now something in there you want to eat.

Step Two: Decide to make use of the garden. Eat a few peas. Pick a beautiful eggplant. Discover, painfully, that eggplants have thorns.

Step Three: Remember you just started a blog. Run upstairs to get your camera.

Step Four: Find a squash.

Cut it and the eggplant up.

Take photos.  Admit you are no photographer. Carry on, anyway.

Step Five: Decide you want to make a peanut sauce. Start throwing a bunch of stuff in a saucepan and hope it tastes good. Discover you have no soy sauce. Decide to use root beer instead because you're crazy.

Step Six: Saute the squash without a hitch because you've done this before.

Step Seven: Decide to bread and fry the eggplant. Use two eggs and a lot of panko.

Realize you have no idea how long it takes to cook eggplant like this.

Burn it. Oops.

Step Eight: Check on the root beer-peanut sauce. Taste it and discover it's actually pretty good. Revel.

Step Nine: Mix the leftover egg and panko together and fry it up because you can. Forget to take photos.

Step Ten: Put your panko-eggs and squash and burnt eggplant on a plate and smother with peanut sauce.

Realize you just made a ton of food.

Step Eleven: Give your lunch a fancy name, like Panko-Breaded Eggplant and Fried Summer Squash with Crispy Panko Scrambled Eggs and Root Beer-Peanut Sauce. Then eat.

And eat

and eat.

Who needs room for dinner?