January 21, 2012 – Crab Fried Rice

It is a very rare day indeed that I don’t have a thousand different plans and all my hours aren’t filled.  Today was one of those very rare days.  I woke up to snow covering the alley and reports of more snow to come, and spent most of the day watching tv, lounging, knitting, writing, answering emails and chatting with Erin and Mai.   Finally, it was well past dinner time and I wanted to make something but I didn’t really know what and  Erin mentioned fried rice so I decided that I was going to be inspired by her.

Crab Fried Rice – from my brain

Ingredients:

• ½ bag Uncle Ben’s rice - check
• ½ bag of imitation crab – leftovers, check
• 1 clove garlic – check
• Onion, about a tbs – check
• Carrots, about ½ tbs – check
• Oil, a splash – check
• Rice wine vinegar – check
• Soy Sauce – check

Step 1: Make a bag of uncle ben’s rice per instructions; mostly consists of water etc. 

Step 2: While the rice is cooking, mince the garlic clove and the bits of onion. Also cut the carrot into small pieces.

Step 3: Drain the rice and wash the pot.  Put the pot on low heat; heat a splash of veg. oil and sauté the onions, garlic, and carrots together.

Step 4: Cut the imitation crab into pieces, add these to the pot.

Step 5: Add half the bag of rice to the pot, keep stirring a bit.  Add a splash of rice wine vinegar to the pot and stir.

Step 6: Add about two splashes of soy sauce and stir.  Keep stirring until you feel pretty awesome about what’s going on in the pot and you decide you’re going to eat it.  Leave it in for at least the one minute you put the plate you’ll use into the microwave.

Step 7: Plate the fried rice and clean up so you don’t burn yourself on it. Then consume. Use chopsticks for best results.

Pretty perfect end to a snow day.  It was just a little less like fried rice than I maybe would have liked, but it was so yummy and light that I didn’t even care.  Hurrah for Erin, hurrah for my love of Asians, hurrah for easy cooking and easy cleanup. 

This foodsperiment: +5 for taste, +5 for quickness, +5 for using up ingredients in my kitchen, +5 for easy clean up, +5 for friendship inspiration.  Happy Sperimenting!

Crab Fried Rice!