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What's Cooking Wednesday - Fried Rice

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Fried Rice!

For some reason - I have a lot of mystery meat in my freezer.  I think the reason is that I made stuff in the crockpot, but it was too much for one person to eat and so I froze it.  So I've been pulling it out of the freezer and trying to decipher what it is and use it.  I also seem to have a lot of rice that I must have bought at one time for "fancy dishes".  So what does one do when they have random rice and meat?  Make fried rice! (but you already knew that didn't you?)  Seriously - I think that as long as your rice is prepped ahead fried rice is one of the easiest dishes to make...and help you clean out your fridge/freezer.

I used 3 cups of cooked and cooled rice, 1 egg, 1 cup of "mystery meat" and random veggies in my fridge in freezer (I just eyeballed this, no exact measurements).

I started by scrambling the egg in the skillet.  I then moved it to the side and added sesame oil (you could use veg oil as well, but I like the taste of sesame oil) and the rice.  I cooked the rice until it was kinda crispy (see the bottom right of the above pic?....oops) and then added the veggies & meat and brought the egg back into the mix.  Cooked it until the veggies & meat were heated through.  I added dark soy sauce (cause that's what I had on hand!) and it made the rice brown ;-)

Turns out the mystery meat was some SPICY beef.  Once I tasted it I remembered making it.  It worked for this dish though.

Overall, fried rice is a go to dish for me.  It might even surpass pasta as the made in a hurry dish for me....we'll see.

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