[Sca-cooks] Fried Rice, was Chinese sausage

[Susan Fox-Davis]

 Christianna wrote:

>         Ok, I'm going out on a limb here and stating that my source for this is the
> "Iron Chef", wherein one episode the challenger was from some restaurant
> that has been in business for decades, sorry, I remember neither the chef or
> the restaurant's name.  They, however, claimed to be the place that First
> Invented Fried Rice (TM), or at least the version we all know and love
> today.  It was their vaulted opinion that the real secret to fried rice that
> is most often overlooked today, is to take the yolk of an egg and mix it
> into the cooked but not fried rice, blending it thoroughly into the rice
> before putting it to the frying pan.  They stated that this method coated
> each grain of rice with the oil and protein combination from the yolk,
> making perfect, fluffy fried rice.

That really interests me, and not just because I'm an Iron Chef geek.
This is the same procedure used with Kasha,
Russian and Russian-Jewish buckwheat groats.  It's right there on the box
instructions.

Now I'm craving both fried rice and kasha.  You know how suggestible I can be.

Selene, Caid