{"id":4420,"date":"2017-09-07T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:33:06","slug":"cilantro-lemon-fried-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Cilantro Lemon Fried Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tend to cook in one of two fashions.<\/p>\n

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  1. I come home from work starving, and quickly make something like a fried egg sandwich, or a quesadilla, or a bowl of cereal (gasp)- something that I can have ready in about five minutes because I don’t want to wait any longer.<\/li>\n
  2. I come home from work almost<\/em> starving, and decide to cook something proper, because I’m very hungry but can wait longer than five minutes. I then proceed to cook rice and sausage and lentils and a pound of bacon and a gallon of pudding and enough pasta to feed an army, a menu also known as Anything and Everything That Strikes My Fancy. I then spend the next week and a half working on the leftovers, because I am only one person, but my cooking brain can’t comprehend that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This time was a mild case of #2.<\/p>\n

    I hungrily surveyed my fridge, and remembered I had a large bunch of cilantro waiting to be used. Aha, cilantro lime rice, I thought.\u00a0My sister Merry makes a delightful cilantro lime rice, full of peas and lime zest and love, which is the best thing ever to eat beside fish. But upon further surveying, I saw I didn’t have peas or lime, so I was going to have to make do, which is, after all, my favorite kind of cooking. I like recipes in theory, but generally stray pretty far from them when I actually attempt them.<\/p>\n

    This time, that method turned out pretty well, so I wanted to share the joy, in case you like cumin as much as me.<\/p>\n

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    Start with plain cooked rice. 1 cup rice to 1.5 cups water comes out perfectly, not sticky or crunchy.<\/p>\n

    I made two cups of rice for this recipe, because like I said, no control over my cooking brain when it comes to quantity.<\/p>\n

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