"Like to cook" - the second helping

[classicdrogn]

In a similar vein as my single-serving, fast cheesy chicken soup from the previous thread, but not as fast, I recently found success with something broccoli based. I hope you'll forgive the less formal recipe style, I'm not as mentally organized today and it's getting on to why-am-I-still-awake-dammit o'clock in my chronic insomniac schedule.

I started with a handful of frozen florets in the bottom of the 2-cup dish, then added a heaping tablespoon or so of powdered instant mashed potato, a pat of butter to make the nutrients in the broccoli more digestively accessible, a slice of processed cheese, a teaspoon of bullion powder (chicken, but any flavor you like will do) a sprinkle each of onion powder, garlic powder, and ground black pepper, and... Hard to say, probably another tablespoon of shredded dry seaweed - I pull the wad of it part way out of the bag and cut it off as confetti with my kitchen shears, basically. This is the thin kind intended to stay in the soup, not the big thick kelp slices you're meant to boil in the stock and then take out, but I don't like even it intact as chewy, rubbery noodle-things, just the flavour it adds.

Enough boiling water to cover everything (leaving the dish about half full to prevent boiling over) was then added and stirred a bit to mix things up before putting it in to microwave for six minutes. (Broccoli takes a relatively long time to cook decwntly soft.) After stirring again I gave it another two, at which point it was nicely boiling, so I dropped in an egg and stabbed the yolk to break it, but did NOT stir so it stayed mostly intact and just solidified with one last minute of nuking. Then I stirred a bunch to break up the cooked egg, and added more hot water to fill out the volume. A few crackers and it's good to go in under ten minutes, including prep and cleanup, which is just the dish and eggshell since everything else is dry or frozen.