Showing posts with label eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eating. Show all posts

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Fried Rice

I love fried rice! Once I figured out how easy it was to make, it became part of our regular rotation of dinners.  It's a great way to use up leftovers too.  The veggies and meat vary depending on what's in the fridge.

Here's all the ingredients I use:
Eggs
Frozen Pees
Leftover sausage and pork pieces
Leftover chopped celery
Carrot
Half used onion
Rice (could be leftover too)
Sesame Oil
Soy Sauce 
Oyster Sauce


Sometimes I used Hoisin Sauce too.

Ok, here we go:
1.  Start the rice.  It will be done just in time to add to your other pan of veggies and meat. If you have leftover rice on hand, this is really a one-pot meal! Note: I do not add any salt to the water because I'm adding soy sauce later and don't want it to be too salty.

2. Heat sesame oil in your skillet over medium heat. (You can also use canola oil.)

3. Scramble eggs (I used 2 here) and cook in the oil.

4. Remove the eggs from the pan and set aside.

5.  Add more oil if needed and start adding veggies.  Cook the onion in the oil first.

6.  Add more veggies (celery here)

7.  Add carrots, keep cooking...

8. Add frozen peas, keep cooking...

9. Add oyster sauce (or hoisin or both)

10.  Stir and cook till veggies are all tender. (Just turn your head sideways to see this picture the correct way.)

11. Add in any meat, here is my left over sausage and pork.  All my meat was already cooked because it was left over. If your meat is not cooked, you might want to do that before you cook the veggies, then just set aside and add back in here.


12.  Your rice should be just about done by now.

Add it to the pan with the veggies.

13. Add in soy sauce and more oyster or hoisin sauce to your liking.

14.  Chop up the eggs (spatula works just fine).

And add them into the rice.

Mmmm, dinner is ready!

My little girl loves this dinner! 

Of course, she eats all of the peas out of it first.


This dinner usually requires some post dinner rice pick-up.  

Friday, July 1, 2011

Easy Boursin

This is my mom's go-to for appetizers, hostess gifts, holiday hors d'oeuvres, etc.  (Thanks Mom!)  It's so easy to make and WAY cheaper than buying store bought Boursin.  And if you don't have a particular herb, using whatever you have is a nice variation!  Or add the herbs you like or more garlic! Dried herbs definitely make the flavor though.

The original recipe is from Southern Living "YEARS AGO" as my mom would say.

1 clove garlic
2 (8 oz) packages of cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter, softened
1 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp dried dillweed
1/4 tsp dried marjoram
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp pepper

Put the knife blade in your food processor.  Process garlic until finely chopped.  Add cream cheese, butter and all the herbs and process until smooth.  Scrape down the sides a couple times to make sure it all gets incorporated.

Makes about 3 cups.  Refrigerate up to 1 week or freeze up to 3 months.
Spread on toasted bread or crackers as an hors d'oeuvre.

Pair a jar with a sleeve of crackers as a nice hostess gift.

The possibilities are endless with this stuff especially if you make a lot!
- Fill celery with it.
- Fill tomatoes or mushrooms.
- Spread a tablespoon under the skin of a chicken breast before baking.
- Spoon into a baked potato - YUM!!
- Use as a sandwich spread instead of mayonnaise.

My sister makes an amazing chicken and crescent roll thing with it.  You can be really creative with it!

Let me know if you make it!




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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Yummy Sweet Potato Crackers

I found this recipe on Merriment Design and I just had to try them.  I'm always looking for new things to make for baby Izz to eat and these are perfect!

4 ingredients and one is a vegetable - can't beat that!  Even my husband who says "sweet potatoes are death" likes them.  Haha!

Go visit Merriment Design for the full recipe and directions.  Here are just some pictures of how mine turned out and things I figured out along the way.

I thought I needed to do more than 'lightly flour' because they were sticking to my counter...



 But as you can see, too much flour means globs of flour on some of them.


I also had trouble getting them REALLY thin so a lot of mine are a little chewy to be called crackers but they still taste good.

Definitely need to go a little lighter on the flour next time...
Geez! Look at that one!


The ones that I did get really thin were hard to get off the counter and the hearts turned out a little wonky shaped.  Makes them look more homemade I guess.

I ended up with 70 crackers including the "T" that I made for hubby.  
He might not readily admit it, but he likes the "death" crackers. 
And yes, I put them in neat little stacks so I could count them. :)

Baby likes them too...


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