Fried rice

Dinner, lunch or breakfast-- I would eat fried rice for every meal if I could. My dad makes the best fried rice I've ever had. No restaurant can stack up. This is the recipe I learned from him.

Before you make fried rice you need to cook rice the night before and let chill over night (at my house we prefer jasmine rice but any long grain rice will work)

Ingredients-

3 eggs 

6 cups of cooked rice

1 Tablespoon Seasoned salt 

2 Green onions (Chopped)

Soy Sauce 

Small bits of meat (optional) 

vegetable of choice (optional)

Cooking oil 

Utensils- 

Sauce pan

Rice cooker

Start by turning on your burner to medium heat. Pour in 2 T. of cooking oil and let heat up.

Chop up your green onions. Once your pan has heated up, add three eggs and scramble them, Once the eggs are fully scrambled, add the 6 cups of rice and a tablespoon of seasoning salt. Stir everything together.  Add meat or vegetables if desired. Turn heat to low and stir occasionally until the rice is translucent. Once it's translucent, add in the soy sauce to desired taste. 

Pandesol

Some families like crescent rolls, others make frozen bread stix. No matter the family, every meal needs bread. In my family, one of our favorites is Pandesol.  It's a super easy, but extra tasty bread the satisfies your bread cravings. 

Ingredients  

Frozen bread loaves 

Bread crumbs 

Salt  

Bread loaf 

Butter (melted and not)

Utensils 

Plate 

Cookie sheets 

Cloth 

Brush 

If you want to bake the next morning, then you can set your bread out the night before (at least 7 hours) with a light cloth over it at room temperature.  When you're ready to start, pour 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs on to a plate and mix with 1Tablespoon of salt and set aside.  Once bread has risen, tear into golf ball size or just a little bigger; brush the tops with melted butter, then roll in your bread crumb mixture. Repeat until done. Place on buttered cookie sheet place in oven until golden brown ( varies based on oven) 15-20 minutes.

Lumpia

Do you remember when you were a little kid and your Mom or your Grandma just got done baking something?  They'd  put it out on a plate to cool and you would do a quick run through  the kitchen to snatch one before anyone saw. Well instead of a cookie or cake, at my Grandma's house it was a dash for Lumpia. Lumpia is a very simple appetizer that is made for all our family gatherings and there are never enough.

The ingredients for Lumpia:

 

1 Ib ground beef

1 Tablespoon La Choy Soy Sauce

3 eggs

salt and pepper for taste

1 can water chestnuts

Wonton wrappers (approx. 60) square or circular

Oil for frying

Optional:  La Choy Sweet and Sour Sauce

Utilities

large bowl

2 small bowls

something to fry in ( I use a medium sauce pan)

If you are not using a fryer, put your oil on the stove and let it heat up. In your large bowl, mix your ground beef, soy sauce, ground pepper, 2 eggs, and pinch of pepper and salt. Finely chop up the can of water chestnuts then add that to your meat mixture. Once everything is mixed in, put aside.  In a small bowl use a fork to beat the third egg as a wash for your wonton wrappers. Grab a wrapper and a small amount of you meat mix in to the middle of the wonton and then fold the ends and tightly roll and seal with water. Use a brush to brush on the egg.  Repeat. Once your done place two or three in the pot and fry until golden brown. Place them on a paper towel to cool and once cooled enjoy plain or dip in some sweet and sour sauce.