Fried Rice

3 cups rice, cooked and cold
3 beaten eggs
3 green onions chopped
6 large mushrooms, diced
pepper
salt
1/2 c ham or bacon or shrimp, pre-cooked
2 T soy sauce
8 T cooking oil


Heat oil in large frying pan.  Cook meat and mushrooms and onion for one minute.  Add rice, salt, pepper and soy sauce.  Crack in eggs and mix and cook until eggs are all cooked.  Stir-fry about 8 minutes.

from Karen Rynearson

Oam Rice

4-5 cups cooked rice

Cook this with:
4 T butter
shredded carrots
diced celery
diced broccoli (optional)
a handful of spinach
2-3 T soy sauce
pepper
1/4 c grated zucchini (optional)
small diced meat, like ham (optional)

Stir fry around the pan on high to medium high for 6-10 minutes.

Mix 8 eggs and 3/4 c milk. Whisk together until all mixified.

Fry 1/2 cup of the egg mixture at a time on medium high for 1 minute on each side.

Put a scoop of the rice mixture on each "omlet" and fold over to serve.

Cranberry-Cilantro Brown Rice

1 c long grain brown rice
1 T salt
2 T oil
1/2 shallot, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
3/4 c cilantro
1/2 c dried cranberries

Bring 2 cups water and the rice and salt to a boil in a meduim saucepan over high heat. Boil 4 minutes.  Cover and reduce heat to low.  Cook 25 minutes.  Fluff rice and set aside to cool.

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium high heat.  Add the shallots and the garlic.  Cook 20 seconds. Stir in the rice, cilantro and cranberries.