How to Make Fried Rice

I don’t really cook. As I have mentioned before in my previous posts, during the years I lived by myself, I invented “dishes” to cook for myself. Among them, my fried rice is among the successful few, something that I can actually let other people eat. Arwen actually craves for it at times. This post is about how I make it.

The ingredients:

- Eggs (I love eggs!)
- Hot dogs.
- A small bag of frozen veggies.
- Leftover rice (not in the picture).
- Whatever leftover meat/food that you may have (optional). Here I have some ground beef from the burritos last night.
- Soy sauce.
- Cooking oil.
- Pepper.

Step 1: Dice hot dogs into little cubes. I try to make them the similar size of the diced carrot in the frozen veggies bag.

Step 2: Heat the oil. About 2 spoons is enough. The hot dogs will produce extra grease. (What “spoon”, you ask? The one you eat with, of course!)

Step 3: Fry the hot dogs. So I don’t like raw meat. Packaged hot dogs are debatably cooked but I don’t like their texture right out of the bag so I fry them up until the color turns darker and the shape somewhat distorted.

Step 4: Add the veggies. Stir them up with the hot dog cubes so they become slightly cooked and mixed well with the hot dogs.

Step 5: Add whatever else meat/food. Do the same as step 4: mix them up good.

Step 6: It’s time to add the rice! The rice portion is roughly the same as the amount of what you now have in your pan/wok.

Step 7: You guessed it! It’s mixing time, again! Stir fry everything together until they are well-mixed.

Step 8: Congratulations, you finally get to use the only raw ingredient we have: the eggs. Crack several eggs and throw them into the mix. I would use 2 eggs per person. Feel free to add more or less to your liking. Egg is love, egg is life, though!

And once again, it’s mixing time! You will mix until the eggs are cooked nicely among other ingredients.

Step 9: Add soy sauce. This part is tricky because I don’t really measure how much I put it in. Basically a good dash at each area and then mix it up well so the soy sauce would blend well with the rice and change the color to light brown.

Step 10: Add pepper for flavor. The effect is negligible unless you accidentally drop the whole jar into the pan. So be careful.

And we are done! It’s time to serve and enjoy!

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