Thai Fried Rice

Thai food is probably my most favorite food, in the entire world.  In fact, I like it so much that I have learned to cook the dishes I like, and my garden contains Thai Basil, Thai peppers and Chili peppers – all staples in these meals.

Thai Fried Rice is a main stay in my house.  I probably make it once a week, because it is just that easy. That, and I only just recently acquired a wok, and that thing is amazing. The only time it’s not amazing is when I toss the eggs in there to scramble them up real fast for inclusion in my rice.  They always stick.  Always. And I have to scrape the bottom of the pan to get it all off. So I’m torn on which is more annoying – the scraping, or getting a second pan dirty.

Probably the second pan.

This meal is deceptively simple, and takes about 5 minutes to cook, with maybe a 10 minute prep time to chop up some onion and scallions, and red bell peppers, in today’s version. It's also a great way to use up left over rice, and cooked chicken.  I really had other intentions for this evening’s meal, but what with trick-or-treaters coming, and my level of lazy after staying up too late and working out in the yard, I just wasn’t up for a big-deal dinner.

Is Halloween over yet?  I’m also tired of getting up and down and up down, and listening to the dogs bark like mad.  I put a baby gate up at the front door, on the outside, so I won’t have to worry about just opening the front door, which I think is pretty ingenious; because it takes a while to pass out candy when there are 8 kids standing there with bags out, expectant looks on their faces. It would have been even more ingenious if I hadn't gotten the idea from the guy down the street, whose house would win scariest-looking-house-on-the-block-on-days-other-than-Halloween contest.

Each and every time I drop a pair of mini chocolate goodness  in their bags (never just a single mini candy bar, come on, let’s not be stingy here) a secret part of me wonders if they hate my candy choices.  But then I realize they probably don't care, and I'm way over-analyzing the candy fest.