Lazy Dinner

With the crazy hours I've been putting in lately at work, nothing appeals more to me than a lazy dinner with minimal fuss. Ironically, I've been put off frozen meals lately. I used to cook a huge batch of food during the weekend, freezing and progressively thawing as and when required for dinners and lunches. Now I prefer to prepare meals fresh for the night's dinner despite having just worked 11 hours for the day.

This was one such meal I prepared recently, I just love the wannabe status of the meal. It's an imitation of a Vietnamese rice vermicelli salad with prawn spring rolls but I've replaced some ingredients with what I have in the fridge and with what I like to eat.

Basically there's the boiled rice vermicelli in the bowl, topped with fried SPAM (yum... lurve SPAM!), fried prawns, poached chicken shredded to small pieces, and torn pieces of mint. Omitted from this picture was the sauce, which we poured over the dish just before we ate it. The sauce I made from combining fish sauce, chilli sauce, and sugar.