I’ve been having this gastrointestinal thing since two days ago, and it’s not going away. I feel somewhat nauseous, and have gone to the bathroom every few hours. And I think I know what caused it.
So I had bought these eggs, mustard greens, and bean sprouts from a Vietnamese supermarket in Garden Grove, and I wanted to use them up. So I decided to make an omelet.
Well, for one thing, the eggs had, well, funny stuff in them. Streaks of red (blood islands?) and an unusual mass on the yolk. Gross. I tried to pick them out, but eventually I decided to just beat them into the eggs and hope they cook evenly.
I also tried to wash the mustard greens, but it was pretty difficult because I didn’t have a basin or basket, and the leaves were too big to fit into my pot.
The next thing I did was just put the eggs in the pan and turn on the stove. When the egg looked like it was cooking okay, I started putting the chopped vegetables in. This turned out to be a bad idea, as their bulk was too much for my pan, and their coldness was keeping my eggs from cooking through.
And I got impatient so I dumped it out on a plate and ate it. Oops.
So basically, I could be suffering from Salmonella from the eggs, or E. coli from the mustard greens.
The good news is that, with all the time I’ve spent in the bathroom, I finished books 4 and 5 of Harry Potter. That’s the Goblet of Fire and the Order of the Phoenix (soon to be a major motion picture!). This means I’ve accomplished my goal of finishing book 5 before the movie.
