Ginger and Egg Fried Rice

Have any leftover rice in the fridge?

Here is a very simple way to bring it back to life.

This is one of my favorites with the nice fluffy eggs and heat from the ginger.

Let's fry some rice!

Ingredients:

eggs

ginger

scallion

leftover rice ( it's best to use day old rice to avoid mushy texture result)

Seasoning:

soy sauce

white pepper

fish sauce

Oil a well heated wok, add ginger and scallion for a few second to flavor the oil then add the rice and toss well, breaking the clumps of rice at the same time.

Move rice to the side of wok and add the eggs, let it cook while stirring it slowly.

When eggs are half way cook, toss with rice.

Add the seasonings and toss all evenly.

Tasty and simple.

It is light enough to pair with another dish or as is with some garlic chili.

Enjoy!

lisa-Congee with pork & carrot

I am really enjoying our new blog, posting old and new recipes along with stories.

It is like my filing cabinet has come to life and feels real good to share especially with the girls.

What is interesting is that we all sort of know how to cook similar dishes with its base ingredients, and with adding our own style to them it turns out to be a different or better dish. From that we will be able to adapt from each others recipes ..what fun!

Hopefully we will hear more from Annie and Cindy very soon

(and I know that Cindy has fantastic recipes that are vegetarian friendly ).

On my previous post, I had mentioned my love for congee but I have never tried it with carrot.

Here I made a pot of congee with the extra pork rib I salted when I was making the watercress soup.

Heat the pot with water , rice and pork ( boil pork sperately to remove impurities)

see: http://cookng.blogspot.com/2009/09/homemade-congee-jook-cantonese.html

Carrot- diced and boiled in a separate pot. I then add the ginger and cooked carrot to the congee.

Let the pot of congee return to a boil then let it simmer for 20- 30 mins.

Kept the water that the carrots was boiled in and used it to water down the congee if necessary.

Removed some of the pork chunks and shred them with a fork or your fingers, return them to the congee and stir.

Let it simmer, when done I add few drops of fish sauce, salt (might not need it as the pork is salted alrady) and white pepper and top it off with scallion and cilantro. With the flavors of the salted pork and soft cooked slightly sweet carrots, Yes I will definitely make this again.

lisa- Marinated Pork Chop with Ginger Cilantro Lime Rice

This morning,
Rosie shared with me a recipe for brine cured pork chop, sounds good Thank you!
http://events.nytimes.com/recipes/8491/2004/03/14/Brine-Cured-Pork-Chops/recipe.html

how funny, i made pork chop just last night:
- boneless pork chop
marinated overnight with soy sauce,toasted sesame oil,worcestershire sauce, chinese rice wine and garlic , I pan fried them 2 minutes on each side with the lid half covered then removed them and sprinkle the chops wiht brown sugar, pop in broiler for 3 mins each side to sear the fat and carmelize the sugar...

- rice ( adapted from Closet Cooking blog)
Heat pan with oil, add scaillion , ginger, garlic until fragrant
add white rice in heated pan to toast for few minutes then add water ( i added 2.5 part from rice amt) lower the flame and let it steam since this is cooked stove top it will cook faster then a steamer. When done , I fluffed rice and added a few drops of soy sauce and the chopped cilantro , lime juice and zest. I also heated a alittle longer for the crisp.

This was served with a roasted tomato - tomato sliced in half , in the oven to bake ( this should start before the pork and rice)

It was nice, the pork was tasty and tender with the roasted tomato and it's juice with ginger lime rice.......
a fried egg on top might be good too......oh my!

Lisa - Homemade Congee - Jook - rice porridge

Got some news today, Little Molly has a fever and a poor appetite. So I mentioned carrot jook and Em really like that idea. I actually found it on this Blog - great selections of soup and congees ( even for babies ) a must check out!
http://www.homemade-chinese-soups.com/congee.html
If I can I would have congee almost everyday, it just gives you an instant calming effect and also help restores your appetite. Great for hangovers , upset stomach, sick, or pissed off for no apparent reason... A simple yet versatile dish. The carrot jook does sound good!
Here is the recipe I make when we're not feeling well.
-rice / water - usually 3 parts of the rice amount
( remember you can add water or stock if you feel it is not your prefer texture)
bring to a boil then simmer with lid half off
add the following
-garlic - ( healing ) roasted so it's on the sweet side, squeeze paste into the congee melts right in.
-ginger - ( healing ) slice to thin sticks
-shitake mushroom - thinly slice
simmer for 20 - 30 mins

-fish sauce - few drops
-scallion and cilantro ( something about cilantro, it give it a fresh and smooth taste )
-salt and white pepper


and with that we get a good night sleep while the magic of congee is working the toxins out... always worked ! Congee is my friend

Our Saturday Breakfast at Annie's

Don't worry we only have this on weekends ....( sure )
Bowl of ginseng chicken soup with rice and Annie's perfect overeasy egg - hopefully she can share her secret
with the warm yoke swimming in the soupy rice .. slurping away with bitesize porkbelly with pickle vegetables and of course chili oil and oyster sauce on side for the extra flavor.

ahh what a way to start the day ......actually we wanted to head back to bed.
Thank you Mama Ng for the Lovely soup and Pork dish. *