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Monday, August 15, 2011

Just a girly type of night

 We made some pork fried rice with jasmine rice, fried egg, onions & baby bella mushrooms.
I got too hungry to take pictures every step of the way. Imagine the same scene with veggies.


Ingredients:
Some Pork or chicken trimmed of fat and chopped into bite sized pieces
Handful of Baby Bella Mushrooms sliced thinly
Packet of Jasmine Rice (fool proof rice cooking method courtesy of my momma)
Vidalia or Red Onion sliced thinly in bite sized pieces
 generous helping of ginger
Soy Sauce to taste
Sesame seeds to taste
two eggs

Fool Proof Rice Cooking Method:
Add rice and water in a 1:2 ratio to covered pot. Bring to boil. As soon as it boils, move it to the smallest burner and put it on the lowest heat setting for 30 minutes. You'll have perfect rice!

To Assemble:
Heat up oil in wok or similar deep pan

Cook food in order of time it takes to cook through

Wait until oil is pretty hot, add meat and use two flat wooden rice paddles...or one rice paddle and one wooden spoon if you don't have two :)

Push the food down from opposite sides of the pan using the rice paddles and continue the motion into the center of the pan keeping the edge of the spoon on the pan and let them meet in the middle. Continue doing that, rotating around the pan so that the food gets cooked evenly.

Pull the meat out of the pan and put on a plate covered in a paper towel to drain some of the grease off. You don't want the meat to get overcooked.

Onions are next, followed by mushrooms. When the mushrooms are almost done,  crack the egg directly into the pan and once it is mostly cooked, toss the rice in and add the cooked meat as well. Mix it all up and season to taste!

I do variations of this with all sorts of veggies. You can add peppers, celery, carrots, scallions, water chestnuts, anything really! Just make sure to add them in the order of time it takes to cook them!

 Stir-fry it all up, and you have yourself a pretty easy  and delicious meal!
When we set the table, we realized all of our nail polish was still out from earlier.We left them as decorations because we liked the colors in the candlelight. 

Someone  snuck into the photo. 
Vivi knows she's not allowed on the kitchen table! She sure is cute though.