Super Easy Lunch or Dinner

I seem to be in a cooking mode lately.

Nothing too fancy, but shrimp fried rice is such a favorite!

I happened to have both peas and shrimp in the freezer so that makes it even easier!

Here are my ingredients, ready to go.

Rice -check

Shrimp- check

peas - check

green onions - check

diced ham - check

egg- check

hoisin sauce - check

soy sauce - check

I start by making a sort of flat omelet and then rolling it and slicing it. 

I know some people mix the beaten egg in with the rice, but we like the pieces of egg instead of the scrambled rice effect.

Then I heat some peanut oil in my wok and start cooking the rice.

I add some soy sauce and some Hoisin sauce and keep stirring and cooking to let the rice soak up the sauces.

Then I add the diced ham.  Okay in this case it was cut up Canadian Bacon but I didn't want to create an international incident.  shhhh

Then in goes the frozen peas and shrimp...

cook and stir until they are thawed and warmed and starting to soak up the sauce.

mmmmm

smells good!

When it's getting nice and hot and almost ready the green onions go in so they just get cooked a wee little bitty bit.  We want the fresh greeny taste to hang in there.

Then the egg pieces go in last so they don't get too smashed up and lose all their integrity.

Because really, I ask you, is there anything worse than an egg with no integrity?

Then Viola!  Shrimp fried rice!

and if you don't have shrimp, or ham (or Canadian bacon) then dice up whatever leftover meat you have laying around in the fridge and pretend you totally intended to make chicken fried rice, or roast beef fried rice, or pork fried rice.  Heck, regular old American style bacon works!

It's like Chinese flavored throw-together.