Timi’s Veg Fried Rice

Ingredients:

For the rice:
1 cup of uncooked long grain rice
1/2 tbsp of salt
water

For for the garlic oil:
approximately 1/4 cup of cooking oil (or less)
6 minced big garlic pods

For the veggies to be mixed:
1 medium carrot cut into small cubes
1/3 cup of green peas
string beans sliced into 1/2″ pieces
1 big onion, sliced

Others:

soy sauce
3 eggs

Directions:

1. Wash the rice thoroughly and let it soak for about half an hour. Let the water boil and then put the rice. When the rice is half-done, put in the salt. Just check on your rice as often as you can because you have to take it out of the fire and drain it just when it is just about to be fully cooked. You can do this earlier and let the rice cool, mixing it lightly with a for. The whole process prevents the rice from sticking together.

2. Take about 3/4 of the oil and fry the garlic on it until the garlic is medium brown. Take the whole thing out and set it aside.

3. Slightly boil the veggies together until they are partially cooked. Drain the veggies. Pour in the remaining oil in the pan and then saute the onions along with the veggies and set this aside.

4. Beat the eggs and also set it aside.

5. It is much better to do the following procedure in batches of two cups of rice so the fried rice is cooked properly and everything is mixed evenly. Make sure that your wok (or frying pan) is hot enough. Take some of your garlic oil (with ample amount of the fried garlic) and let it heat up a bit too, then put your rice, continuously stirring but careful not to break the grains apart and let the rice cook.

6. Add in the veg, and the eggs and approximately a tablespoon of soy sauce. Keep on stirring the rice until the soy sauce is mixed evenly and the eggs had coated almost each and every grain. Add more eggs if you want some egg bits on your fried rice.

Actually, people might say that this is too much of work for just fried rice but it really does make a lot of difference on the taste. The secret of a good fried rice is a half cooked (or frozen rice), very hot wok, and the soy sauce and egg mixed evenly into the rice. The garlic oil not only gives it more of a Filipino twist (sinangag, anyone?) but it gives the dish more of an “oomph!”.

Right now, they’re building this 100-floor giant just a few blocks away from our place. There will be a posh mall, posh movie theatres, rooftop garden and posh offices also on the upper floors…hmmm, interesting…makes me think how they’ll be able to pull it off. Actually in my area, there are probably about more or less 7 construction sites of supposedly high-rise buildings…they had finished constructing a whole bunch of them in the city, three of which has digital signage installed.

Just imagine, Kuwait is a very small country with approximately 3 to 3.5 million population of which, only nearly a third of it are Kuwaiti nationals. Only Kuwaiti nationals are allowed to open businesses and approximately 50% of them are of that age where they can own one and still not all of them do. So what are all those buildings for? I don’t know, but I guess they are planning something big for the country that’s why they’re giving it a HUGE MAKE-OVER.

I mean really, they’ve brought down a lot of old buildings and new ones are popping out left and right. The designs are more of on the modernist styles, with a lot of ‘em blue glass windows, usually having minimum of 20 floors (not sure).

I wonder how the city would look like 4 years from now….

Pardon my make-up…I know I look ghoulish (BWAHAHAHA!).

As I mentioned in previous blogposts, I’m very proud of our student’s accomplishments (which might not be something really huge for some people but they really did their best). And I’m really happy that they really did pay attention and learned something from our nonsensical (okay fine, not really nonsensical) babbles for 6 days and they are able to make a website without using Dreamweaver or Frontpage. To my students: YOU ARE JUST ALL FRIGGIN’LY KEWL! YOU RULE! Not that they’re reading my blog anyway…I doubt any of them and even my co-members knew about the existence of this blog.

As for me, well I’ll be back to that usual wake-up-late-loll-in-bed-with-hubby Saturday mornings. CUDDLE-NUMMINESS GALORE!

Anayway, thank you ITP-K for giving me a chance to help out other Filipinos! Mabuhay po!

Saturday started off with the first session of the Web Design Workshop that I had mentioned in an earlier post. Hubby and I arrived at the venue at 8:40am (we usually wake up at 10am during Saturdays) and left place at about 1:20pm. We actually were able to take our afternoon nap but, we decided to go to Farwaniya in the evening just like that. We roamed like crazy ’til 12am and took the opportunity to go to that branch of Alghanim Electronics to see something to get for hubby’s 20kd gift certificate. We browsed for a specific HDMI cable which can connect his PC with older TV model’s that do not have HDMI slots but I don’t think something like that does exist. Poor hubby. Anyway, we came home and finished dinner at 1am (!!!).

I’m still feeling groggy. I hate the fact that I had to go to work today…I just want to sleep…Bah!