For Thursday 17-01-2008 Rant 1
Well this morning was was really pretty. It started to snow this morning so I really couldn't help but take pictures today. I didn't really go anywhere out of my usual but I decided to take pictures of cool architecture around the city and while I was headed home from dropping my sister off at school. It was breathtakingly beautiful in the snow. The quiet was very calming and had a almost tranquil quality. I wish that I could have spent more time aimlessly roving about in the wondrous weather...
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For Thursday 17-01-2008 Rant 2 : RICE
So some time later after admiring the outside a bunch I came back inside and sat down to think. Today I was thinking about food and how I often take the very food I eat everyday (or don't eat depending on the day.... >.<) and how I've been so fortunate just about all my life, I can always get food when I need it, its good food too. I feel for the people who can't eat everyday because of local economic hardship or a myriad of other factors like poverty and such. After pondering that I started thinking over some of the basic food staples though out the world, mainly rice, potatoes, and corn. Each of these plants are wonders of evolution and science. Each thing can make nearly limitless variants of food and if one would want to one could eat it every day and never eat the same thing twice. I wanted to make something with one of these food items, and seeing as I didn't have enough corn or potatoes I went with rice. Now its by no means fancy, because I had almost no food in the house, but with a little bit of thought and two other ingredients a person can make some very good food. I decided to make fried rice... with eggs.... and thats about it, technically I did use some oil and soy sauce but thats just semantics. They turned out really good and only took about eight minutes to prepare once the pan had been sufficiently heated up. Here are some simple directions.
First crack one to two eggs (depending on the amount of rice) into a bowl and scramble them. Once thats done set the egg bowl to the side and start heating up a pan with some olive, canola, or vegetable oil on the stove at medium high heat. While the pan is heating up take some leftover rice (it doesn't need to be leftover it just needs to be dry, but previously cooked in some way... it is do-able with recently washed rice just let the rice dry... a lot.) and crumble it onto a plate or bowl. (You need to do this step because you don't want clumps and when wet rice cools and dries it tends to stick together depending on what its stored in.) Then set the rice to the side and pick up the egg(s). By now the pan should be fairly hot, scramble the egg in the tbs of oil and break the egg into small (think pinky nail sized) bits. Then add the rice to the egg and stir evenly mixing the eggs into the rice. Next you add soy sauce to taste into the pan, the rice should be a light to medium brown in color. Stir the contents of the pan well to make sure that everything gets distributed evenly. Carefully serve. Remember its gonna be hot.
You can add other ingredients like meat and other vegetables to preference. If you do that cook the eggs first then any meat then vegetables. I would have added other things but I didn't have any ingredients.... sorry... next time maybe.
This post is getting really long. I suppose I should put off my thoughts and pictures of the capitol off until next time, perhaps tomorrow, depending on the weather.... (If its nice I'm gonna head over to the library to work on my research, if its not I'll be stuck inside because of the cold and thus I'll probably post).
Appreciate the things in life that are always there, remember you never know when they might not be there next time.
~Wayfarer
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