Foodie post: 'Cheap College Student Five Colours Meal'

For want of a better name. 'Goshiki' is one of the parts of 'washoku', five philosophical principles of meal-planning for nutrition and æsthetics. Go = 5, shiki = ...well, I couldn't find the right definition. But 'goshiki' as a phrase means 'five colours'. :)

It's not as cheap as ramen, but it's undoubtedly better for you. And it can stretch pretty well.

Cheap goshiki (regular) Not exactly a bento/bento item, although I've packed my leftovers, this is another 'college student food' concoction like my 'Etruscan rarebit'. This has white (rice), red (pasta sauce), yellow (cheddar), green (edamame) and... I think I ran out of black. There may be black sesame seeds in there, the last of my 'goma shio'. Microwave, stir, eat. Tasty, filling, protein, dairy, lycopene....

Cheap goshiki (presentation style) A nice presentation version of my 'college student five colours'. Here we have white (rice), red (pasta sauce), yellow (cheddar), green (edamame) and black (also rice). I rearranged the cheese a little before microwaving; the rice was pretty much warm out of the Zo, however. Alas, that's commercial red sauce and not a bit homemade (it's faster that way).

I've also made this with off-the-shelf Mueller's or Barilla pasta, and with Tinkyada rice pasta for the 'white' component. Rice... and by this I mean Japanese rice, not some abomination like Uncle Ben's... seems to give it a nicer texture, though. If you let it cool enough to pack for a meal away from home, it eats pretty well cold if you can't re-microwave it — many bento boxes, for instance, aren't microwaveable, and some plasticware like Rubbermaid doesn't take to either tomato products or molten cheese well.

Well, that ended up wordier than I expected....

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