If you try these recipes, or have made similiar recipes, leave a comment and let me know what you think about these foods. Do you like pudding or stir-fried rice? Have you ever tried to make these foods before?

Here are a couple of recipes that I recently made for my family:

Vanilla Pudding
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk (I used lowfat milk)
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons margarine or butter, softened (I used Kerrygold butter)
2 teaspoons vanilla

Mix cornstarch, sugar, and salt in a bowl with a wire whisk. Place the mixture into a 2-quart saucepan. Gradually stir in milk. Cook over very low heat or over a double boiler, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir at least half of the hot mixture gradually into egg yolks; stir into hot mixture in saucepan. Boil and stir one minute; remove from heat. Stir in margarine and vanilla. Pour into dessert dishes; refrigerate. Makes 4 servings.

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Cute idea: I poured the pudding into pretty coffee cups before serving. It looked really neat and I think it’s a nice, elegant way to serve pudding!

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Fried Rice
1 cup bean sprouts (I didn’t have any, so I skipped this)
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (I used olive oil and I think I used more than 2 tablespoons)
1 cup sliced mushrooms
3 cups cold cooked white rice
1 cup of cut-up cooked pork, chicken, OR shrimp (I used two small packages of raw shrimp in the shell, not sure how much shrimp it was.)
2 green onions (with tops) sliced
2 eggs, slightly beaten
3 tablespoons soy sauce (I used low-sodium soy sauce)
Dash of white pepper

If using uncooked shrimp, steam shrimp until done and peel off the shell. I did not cut up my shrimp, I left them whole.

Rinse bean sprouts under running cold water, drain. Heat one tablespoon oil in 10-inch skillet (I used the largest iron skillet that I had but it was too small. It’s best to use a VERY LARGE SKILLET OR WOK.) until hot; rotate skillet until oil covers bottom. Cook and stir mushrooms in oil over medium heat until coated, about 1 minute. Add bean sprouts, rice, pork (or shrimp or chicken) and onions; cook and stir over medium heat, breaking up rice, until hot, about five minutes.

Push rice to side of skillet; add one tablespoon of oil to skillet. Add eggs; cook and stir over medium heat until eggs are thickened throughout but still moist. Stir eggs into rice mixture. stir in soy sauce and white pepper. Makes four servings.

Enjoy! Don’t forget to leave a comment!
~Cecelia Dowdy~