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I know, I know - these are becoming far and few between...but I'm striving to get better and frankly, actually cook! A lot of nights are spent at my 2nd job/business I own and so I eat there most of the time.

One of the "joys" of living alone is that you sometimes get to eat the same thing over and over again after the initial meal. I had made some beef in the crockpot awhile ago and it was SPICY (if you know me, you know I'm a bit spice adverse)..so in the freezer it went until "I have people over". That didn't happen so I needed to make something to cut the spice.

Enter All You April 2012....
I started with this basic recipe and changed things (surprise!)

*No chicken or soy sauce...I added the beef at the end.
*No bag of frozen mixed vegetables....I just threw in whatever was already in the freezer (broccoli, snap peas, corn and red peppers)
*No white rice...I used brown
*Used sesame oil for the cooking instead of vegetable oil



Overall - it's good. Not crunchy like fried rice. Not sure if that's because I used brown rice, too small of a skillet or I'm just too impatient (I did follow timing on this much better than I usually do!)

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the third said…
It looks good! A nice, one pot dish for items you may already have and want to remake into something new-ish. :-)
April 4, 2012 at 5:44 AM
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