Pretentious Fried Rice in an RV

 Austerity dinner #6.
Fried Rice is a humble dish. It was invented to utilize and stretch leftovers. The ultimate in frugality. Well, I had a question earlier for some of my friends and I'll ask it here, too. Since Fried Rice is humble and Prime Rib is Pretentious...would Fried Rice with Prime Rib be considered humble or pretentious???
We'll just call this one Pretentious Fried Rice.
This one starts out with leftover prime rib roast that we stuck on the rotisserie on Christmas. I froze the leftovers. I love, love, love fried rice. I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it, but I have a Japanese aunt. Aunt Aiko. She is the one who told me how to make fried rice at home. An ex-husband and I drove up to see her and my Uncle Wayne one day to just visit and before we left, Aunt Aiko made fried rice for dinner with bacon in it. Aunt Aiko is where I learned how to do this and Aunt Aiko's Fried Rice kicks ASS! I diced up a good portion of this leftover prime rib.

Use vegetable or peanut oil for this...not olive oil.
 And scrambled up 4 eggs. There is a technique to this...really there is. You crack the eggs into whatever you're going to scramble them in and with a fork, you beat the hell out of them. No big trick. Just beat the hell out of them. Then put them in a skillet with barely enough oil to make them not stick. You cook them and keep breaking them up into small pieces with a wooden spatula until they are no longer glossy looking, but rather dry. They're done. Take them out and put them in a little dish. You'll need a lot of little dishes or a big plate to do fried rice the right way.

 I have a lot of little bowls...top, left to right: eggs that are scrambled, carrots, celery. Bottom Row: prime rib (or whatever meat you want to use, most often, it's a leftover pork chop or pork roast), onions & garlic and then, mushrooms in the last bowl.

 I cooked a cup of white rice in 2 cups of beef broth. You can just use leftover rice...brown, white, it doesn't matter.

 After you get done cooking the eggs, the skillet will most likely look like this. It's supposed to...just wash that stuff out and go on with the rest...

 I start with the carrots and give them a 60 second start and add the celery. Let those cook for 60 seconds. Add the onions & garlic. I grated a 1-inch piece of peeled ginger in and let it go just until I could smell it. I added in the mushrooms and let it cook for about 60 seconds.

 The beef goes in after that.

 The rice goes in after the beef gets tossed around. Remember that the beef is already cooked, as should any meat you use, so it just needs to heat through.

 Toss around to combine everything.

 Thanks, Bob, for being my guest photographer...I think you did a splendid job and I hope to have use of your services again in the near future.

 And yes, my stove needs to be scoured...that's coming this week. You can only do so much because it was pretty bad when we bought this thing...but, it does need to be scoured with some degreaser...BAD!

 And we're tossing to mix everything up!!

 Add in the egg...

 Toss again...you get a workout with this recipe!

 Drizzle in soy sauce until it's as brown as you want it. Taste it. If it needs more, add it. This is all up to taste. Ideally, I would start out with a 2 or 3 tablespoons and go from there. I've made this so many times that I can tell where I want it, as far as the saltiness of soy, by the color.

This is Pretentious Fried Rice....that ever humblest of dishes...elevated to a new level.
Before I leave you all drooling over this fried rice (I'm not bragging...it is seriously THAT good), I wanted to let you all know about one of my good friend's blog. It's called Hungry? and she has joined me on the whole austerity movement. She made one of her austerity meals and it's featured on her blog...so stop by, say hi and sign up to follow Hungry? She's a helluva cook!
Enjoy...PEACE