Dinner with Mark Twain, Fried Rice and Another Award (how random is this title)

Did that title catch ya? Ha! Well, it's how my evening turned out. :) I decided tonight I wanted to go straight home because typically I'll find some reason to stop off somewhere. I wanted to go straight home, see how my little Emma was doing and make something with what I had in my cupboards. What I found were the makings of fried rice and I was recently inspired by my good friend's blog (we have been friends since high school) Tulip Bliss. She has the coolest blog and the most adorable cats. Check it out when you have a chance! She recently made a batch of delicious looking fried rice and I've had a hankering for it ever since. Well, I had cooked chicken breast from the night before, a carrot, organic rice, green onions and eggs! That was enough for me to make at least a basic fried rice.

Where does Mark Twain come in? He came over to have some fried rice with me, of course. Okay, sorry I just had to. No, I'm not hallucinating. I have a small TV in the kitchen (you know the kind underneath the cupboards) and I was watching this wonderful and inspiring biography on Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens) while I made my fried rice. This program was on OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting), one of my favorite channels on TV. Public broadcasting is always so educating. Well, at least it was educating to this girl while she cooked. :) Mark Twain was such a worldly man. He was full of eagerness to learn about the world, the simple life, slavery, about good and evil and the different cultures while studying mankind. This program inspired me to start writing again, another thing you may not know about me. I love writing. Perhaps I've been sloppy about it lately in my blogs, but one box out in the garage contains a 300 page romance novel and half of a suspense novel that I had written years ago. You know, come to think of it, I may have said this before. Geez, my memory is going! Lol! Anyhow, this blog and all of you have inspired me to get my creativity on paper again. The words and stories have been itching to come out so I think I will give it a try. :)

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked white rice (I used organic white rice)

3 cooked chicken breast, cubed

1 stalk of green onions, chopped

2. 2 eggs (scrambled and set aside)

3. 1/2 yellow onion, chopped

4. 1 carrot, chopped

5. Kikkoman soy sauce

Very easy guys....in a large frying pan, saute the chopped yellow onion and carrot until translucent. Once the onion and carrot have cooked, toss in 2 cups of the cooked rice, chicken, scrambled egg and chopped green onion. Stir fry everything together and generously pour soy sauce all over until desired taste. Don't you love my "just wing it" instructions? :)

Also, one more thing, Kathy over at Kathy's Red Door Welcome and Anya over at Kareltje En Ikke have awarded me the Lemonade Award! I've been awarded this before but I don't mind being selfish and getting it again and again. Hehe! Thank you so much Kathy and Anya! Kathy is a new blogging friend of mine and she has the sweetest blog! Like all of us she loves her family, home, decorating and blogging! I'm so happy to have met you, Kathy. Anya, of course is my blogging sister. We love our cats if you couldn't tell yet. :) Thank you, Anya!