Category

fried rice

  • Rice Gone Wild, Salmon Adventures & The Night I Served A Pork Chop To A Vegetarian

    Rice Gone Wild, Salmon Adventures & The Night I Served A Pork Chop To A Vegetarian

    Necessity is the mother of invention (its Baby Mama, if you will) and so it was that a few weeks ago I had carrots, onions, celery, and some Arborio rice on hand and because I didn’t feel like food shopping that evening, I set out to make a risotto with just water. I’ve told you…

  • Fried Rice for Breakfast

    Fried Rice for Breakfast

    Along with my chickpea curry disaster, I’d made some white rice in my rice cooker that looked like it was going to go to waste. I could have made rice pudding but Craig hates rice pudding so I put the leftover rice in the refrigerator and forgot about it.

  • Rice + Pineapple = Dinner + Dessert

    Rice + Pineapple = Dinner + Dessert

    Innovation in the kitchen is not my forte: I like to follow recipes. But every now and then I am lazy and home on a weekend and unmotivated to shop. It’s then that I open my cabinets and my refrigerator and see if I have enough on hand to whip something up. And it just…

  • Kimchi Fried Rice

    Kimchi Fried Rice

    The road to dinner may be paved with good intentions (something healthy), bad intentions (something naughty), but most frequently it’s paved with whatever you have lying around. And in my case, a few days ago, that happened to be kimchi and rice. The rice I keep with the pasta and polenta as an always-on-hand base…