Freaking Fantastic Fried Rice

Fried Rice Ingredients:

 

4 cups of cooked rice -  best if you use the next day when the rice is not coming right out of the rice cooker.

3 Tbsps. butter

1 diced onion

12 ozs. frozen peas and carrots

½ cup soy sauce

3 beaten eggs

 

In a large nonstick skillet, melt the butter and sauté the onion until tender.

Mix in the peas and carrots and heat until thawed and tender.

Move the vegetables to one side of the skillet and scramble the eggs in the other side.

 

Once scrambled and broken-up, mix the eggs and vegetables together then stir in the soy sauce.

Mix in the rice gradually until well combined.

 

Easy-peasy and yummy!

 

This rice is a must-try!  The veggies go perfectly with it. I usually make this rice when I’m having chicken. It fits perfectly.

 

Or add chopped-up store-bought crusty fried chicken to the mix!

 

Fast White-Bean Soup

 

FAST WHITE-BEAN SOUP – Serves 4 – I double or triple recipe.

2 large garlic cloves, chopped fine

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

1 (14-15 ounce) can stewed tomatoes

1-3/4 cups reduced sodium chicken broth

2 (19-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained well (3 cups)

1 (1/2-pound) baked sweet ham sliced #6 at the deli and chopped into ½” cubes from home

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1 (5-ounce) bag baby spinach

2 pinches of white sugar or more if you want it sweeter

Cook garlic in 1/4 cup olive oil in a 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 quart pot over moderate heat, stirring until just golden. Do not allow garlic to burn. Remove from heat and place on another burner.

In another container, coarsely cut up stewed tomatoes with kitchen shears. Add tomatoes with juice to garlic and oil. Return pot to burner and heat.

Pour and stir-in chicken broth, beans, ham and pepper and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer, uncovered 5 minutes.

Add spinach and cook until wilted for 3 minutes. While soup is simmering, preheat broiler.

Spread Italian bread with garlic spread – see recipe below. Place bread on a baking sheet and broil on low heat setting for 2 minutes or until golden. Watch that bread does not burn.

Garlic spread recipe:

1 stick salted butter, melted in microwave about 20 seconds                                                                    ½ cup Kraft grated parmesan cheese (in a plastic jar)                                                                     4 Tbsp. vegetable oil                                                                                                       4 tsp. garlic powder                                                                                                       Mix everything together, spread over Italian bread and enjoy with soup and garlic bread!