Quick. Easy. Light. Juicy.

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Food painting artwork

30 x 30cm oil transfer drawing (a kind of monotype print) on oil on canvas. Inspired by Chinese paper cutting or Jianzhi which is a traditional form of decoration. Also usually in Chinese red.

A super quick fantastic meal today for Meatless Monday. Such simple ingredients are really transformed into something else. If you know of the taste sensation of umami, this is it bottled, as far as I'm concerned.

4 eggs

2 tomatoes, chopped into 2cm cubes

1/2 - 1 spring onion, finely sliced

2-3 cloves garlic, chopped fine

about 8 pinches of ground Chinese (Szechuan) pepper

1-2 teaspoons sugar

pinch of salt, to taste

dash of soy sauce

optional dash of Chinese stock sauce or savoury seasoning (add in with the soy sauce in the recipe)

sesame or peanut oil

Crack the eggs into a bowl and add a pinch of salt. Beat the eggs.

Put a really generous amount of oil in a pan.

When the oil is almost smoking, add the eggs, stirring, and scramble very quickly. Remove to a plate or back into the bowl.

Remove most of the oil from the pan.

Fry the garlic, Szechuan pepper and a pinch or two of salt until the garlic has softened.
Add the tomato and a little soy sauce to taste.
After the tomato has cooked a little, add sugar.
After a little more cooking add the eggs back in and taste the dish for salt, sugar and soy sauce. Adjust as needed.
Serve over rice and sprinkle with the spring onion.

For 2.