Fried Rice

One of the best ways to use up leftovers from the fridge, fried rice is one of my family's favorites.

The only necessary ingredients are:
rice
soy sauce
eggs

The rest is left up to your creativity and what's in your fridge.

Tonight I used:
onion chopped (about 1/2 of an onion left-over from something else. I usually like it with at least a whole onion - but I like onions!)
2 stalks celery chopped
two small garden carrots chopped
two medium green tomatoes chopped (any left-over or fresh veggies are great - frozen mixed vegetables, zucchini, etc.)
about a cup of chopped up left-over pork chops

Saute the veggies in a little butter - until they are soft.
Add the rice & mix (amount of rice is not important - use whatever you have. You want more rice than veggies - but the ratio is totally flexible).

When the rice is heated with the veggies - scoot the mixture to one side of your pan. Add a little butter/oil and crack 2-4 eggs (depending on how much goop you have and how much you like the eggs in your fried rice!) onto the clear area. Stir the eggs (scrambling them, per se) and cook them til almost completely cooked. Then mix them into the rice/veggie mixture. Finally add soy sauce to taste.

Now we have left-over fried rice - hahaha!

Please don't look in this book to see the fried rice recipe - because I probably did not come anywhere close to doing fried rice "correctly" - this is just how we like it. :)