Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'rice'
Rice + Pineapple = Dinner + Dessert
Innovation in the kitchen is not my forte: I like to follow recipes. But every now and then I am lazy and home on a weekend and unmotivated to shop. It's then that I open my cabinets and my refrigerator and see if I have enough on hand to whip something up. And it just so happened that last weekend, I had a tub of basmati rice and leftover pineapple from my pineapple with molasses and lime zest. Here's what I did: I cooked that rice according to the package directions. I chopped up some ginger, some onions and some celery and got my cast iron skillet really hot (next time, I'll just use my non-stick pan). I added vegetable oil, tossed in the veggies, and cooked them a bit; then I added half the rice. I moved the rice around and then let it sit so it started getting crusty. I also added some Sriracha and soy sauce. While that was cooking, I cut up the leftover pineapple and when the fried rice started looking like fried rice I tasted it and liked it; then I added the pineapple and stirred it around, turning off the heat. Voila! Pineapple fried rice....
Kimchi Fried Rice
The road to dinner may be paved with good intentions (something healthy), bad intentions (something naughty), but most frequently it's paved with whatever you have lying around. And in my case, a few days ago, that happened to be kimchi and rice. The rice I keep with the pasta and polenta as an always-on-hand base for dinner--at the very least I can always make rice and beans, pasta with nutmeg and butter, and polenta with cheese if all else fails. Sometimes, though, I have an ingredient that pairs perfectly with a base--like broccoli rabe last week, which paired perfectly with penne--and, this week, kimchi which goes very well with rice....
Cannellini Beans and Rice
After my sticky bun disaster, I need to redeem myself and redeem myself I shall with the picture you see above: that's cannellini beans and rice, an improvised dinner I whipped up with just a few cheap ingredients in less than 20 minutes. And it was good. Really good! What was so good about it? Let me tell you....
