Stir fry is easy!

I've always liked fried rice. Now I make it about every fourth day and find that I'm having a ball making it with a bit of just about anything I can find. I spend a ton of time in Asia and love Asian food. I am especially fond of how Asian cooking in particular seems to provide a whole variety of tastes in every bite. You can have sweet, spicy, mild, hot, etc. in every bite. It's great. I cannot eat pineapple right now, but my favorite combo is probably pineapple fried rice--some spicy stuff at one end of the spectrum and the sweet pineapple along the way. Good stuff.

Here's an example of something I threw together at home. I'm pretty limited right now regarding the spices I can use, so I'm trying to make the food taste as good as I can even without using any additional spices at all. For example, pre-salted nuts or meat can provide all the salt the meal needs. Throw in some raisins or other fruit along with the milder or salty flavors and it works great.

Anyhow, here's a simple stir fry that worked for us:


First make the rice. For this batch, I used chicken stock instead of water, just to check it out. I made the chicken stock myself by boiling down the carcass of a rotisserie chicken.





The next part allows for a great deal of creativity. I opted to begin with spinach. Set the heat to low. Put about a Tbsp of your desired oil in the pan. Add a ton of spinach. The spinach really cooks down a lot as you'll see in the next photo.






As you can see, it cooks down a lot.






My next bunch of ingredients: carrots, sugar snap peas, rotisserie chicken, and salmon. I end up adding additional oil as necessary as I go along and adjust the heat up or down along the way too. I don't have the other ingredients lined up for a pic, but I ended up adding pistachios and raisins. Just keep tumbling the food around so everything gets warm and nothing burns.





The end result. My son and I ate almost all of this in one sitting (and I'm a skinny dude!). There was a small serving leftover and it reheated perfectly fine in the microwave.