TUESDAY

OddTodd,

I love making rice and eating rice, 'cause it's cheap and goes good with stuff and stuff. But there is always left over rice, so I learned to make fried rice for the left over stuff from a chinese guy I used to work with. This is a pretty cheap and tasty way to eat for a few days. It takes a little work but not much. It helps if you have a rice cooker to make the rice in the first place, but it works with any kind of leftover rice (even the extra from chinese take out will do). This totally revitalizes old rice.

What you need:

2 cups (or so) of leftover cooked rice (preferrably a little aged in the fridge). This can be any type of rice. I like brown rice 'cause it's healthy and tasty.
2 cups of frozen peas and carrots.
3-4 green onions (the long thin ones)
2 eggs
2-3 tsp of seasame oil (any oil will work really)
2 tsp soy sauce
salt and pepper (to taste)

Before starting, crack the two eggs into a bowl, and mix up the eggs (like for an omelet). This works better if the eggs are at room temp, but not necessary. Also chop up the onions into little pieces (or big pieces if you go that way). Heat up a really big pan (or a wok if you have one). Dump in the oil and roll it around the pan. When it's nice and hot, dump in the rice and stir it around. Heat up a separate pan and dump in the eggs (don't forget to Pam the pan, otherwise the eggs will stick). Make a little plain omelet while the rice is cooking (if you start with a pretty hot pan, this should only take a couple of minutes). Remove omelet and place on a plate. Now dump the peas and carrots into the rice. Stir it around again. Go back to the little omelet thingy and dice it up into little bite size pieces. Don't forget to check and stir the rice and peas and carrots. Now dump the egg into the rice, peas, and carrots. Stir yet again, making sure the rice on the bottom of the pan isn't burning. Now dump in the onions, and add soy sauce and salt and pepper and any other spice that strikes your fancy (I like adding a little crushed red pepper, 'cause I like things hot). Keep stirring and checking and stirring and checking until everything is hot and yummy and done. Turn off heat. Scoop and serve.

If you want to get even more creative, dice up some chicken (or use frozen shrimp), cook separately, and add it to the mix (you can use the same pan you cooked the eggs in, but cut up the chicken ahead of time). The eggs can also be added directly to the rice raw (no omelet making) while the rice is cooking, but do this early in the game to insure thorough cooking. If you don't have 2 cups of rice, just modify everything in proportion.

d from Los Angeles

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Hey t0dd.

Me and my mother were visitng some friends in Buffalo when we got this
recipe from them, i'll call it

COUS COUS VEGGIE DELIGHT

I normally hate cous cous, but this is delicious.

Whatcha need:

A box of cous cous (I like parmesean, but any flavor works)
Assorted veggies (I prefer some zucchini, onion, brocoli, and mushrooms)
Olive oil
Soy sauce

You kind have to guess how much ya need based on whos there, etc.
But, throw some veggies in a pan with olive oil until they get nice
and sauteed. When theyre ready, make the cous cous. Throw the
veggies in with the cous cous and mix it up. After that, just add in
a little bit of olive oil, and a little bit of soy sauce, mix it up
again, and enjoy! It tastes great.

Its really easy to make, pretty cheap, and can be served as a side
dish thing, or if you throw in some shrimp, you can eat it as a meal
if you want.

-CaffeinatedAlex

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Hi OddTodd,

Here's a quick way and easy way to make a birthday ice cream pie. You can have as many colored layers of flavors as you want.

Ice cream pie

ingredients:

-chocolate syrup

-pre-made cookie crumb crust

-ice cream or sorbet in one or more flavors -softened but not melted (in microwave ax 35 seconds or left out) three small containers or one regular square size will pretty much fill the shell

-candy and whipped cream to decorate the top if you want

On the center of the pie crust make a circle of chocolate syrup about half the size of a hockey puck. This will hold the crust together when you cut it to serve. Freeze until solid.

scoop softened ice cream into pie crust so is filling the whole bottom (no air bubbles). To make different layers of flavors, freeze the first layer to solid before adding the next. Freezing to solid is approx. and hour.

Decorate the top of the cake as you wish and freeze to solid.