Posted in Eggs, Food, Mushrooms, Rice, tagged Brown Rice, Food, Mushroom, Rice on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dinner last night, late. Kept it simple. Steamed brown rice, fried egg, and shiitake mushrooms simmered in soju, sugar, Kauai sea salt, and ponzu sauce. A little more Kauai sea salt sprinkled on the eggs.
Dinner
It was donburi-like but not quite. Next time, I will thicken the mushroom sauce and use it like gravy to pour over the rice. Then, I think the bowl will be more donburi-like. 
One bowl, easy to eat, easy to cleanup.
Enjoy.
The Mouse
Posted in Breakfast, Rice, tagged Brown Rice, Fried rice, Rice on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I think I got myself into trouble by doing this blog. Nothing dramatic or traumatic like phone tapping or anything like that. Because of my “experience” with this blog, I was asked to take over administering a non-profit’s website. Pretty scary for me and the organization. With a lot of outside support, and a lot of luck, hopefully we can both survive.
To start transitioning, I met the outgoing webmaster (A) and the consultant (J) for breakfast yesterday here.
Sign
Here’s the menu: http://bigcitydinerhawaii.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Breakfast.pdf.
A had the healthy big breakfast with white rice.
Healthy Big Breakfast with White Rice
The waitress made a mistake and gave A brown rice instead of the requested white rice. So I got pictures of both white and brown rice (just in case you’re interested).
Healthy Big Breakfast with Brown Rice
J ordered eggs and corned beef hash.
Corned Beef Hash, Eggs, and Brown Rice
The corned beef hash actually looked pretty good. Looked like it was house made, chunky and uneven (a good sign). Forgot to ask J how it was.
Most times, if fried rice is on the menu, I have to order it (I think it’s in my genetic DNA). 
Uncle Danny's Fried Rice and Eggs
I would have ordered Grandma’s Incredible Kimchee Fried Rice but didn’t want to be emitting noxious fumes in front of someone I just met and a fellow professional member (family is okay, hee hee).
My fried rice was not bad. The rice was seasoned just right and there was a good rice to meat ratio. I felt the meat wasn’t integrated into the rice as much as I would have liked. There wasn’t enough scrambled egg incorporated into the rice. Overall though, not bad.
I found out our consultant is also a food person. With common interests (food and internet), I think it’s a start of a great relationship (to paraphrase Bogie). Now if only there was a piano playing in the background.
Enjoy.
The Mouse
Related Articles:
http://hopeeternalcookbook.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/special-fried-rice/
Posted in Food, Ingredients, Rice, Snacks, tagged Brown Rice, Sardine on June 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
One blog that I check occasionally is all about sardines. A recent post, talks about the closing of the last operating plant in the United States. Very sad.
The Cat’s father was willing to try different and new foods and dishes. The Mouse’s father was less prone to do so. What he did teach me was to appreciate the little things.
Sardines was one of my father’s favorite foods. Some saltine or soda crackers, butter, bread and butter pickles, and a can of sardines and he was king of the world (he wasn’t too particular about brands, not that we had that many to choose from).
Recently, I had a bowl of brown rice, a can of fish steaks (Beach Cliff brand), and capers (I prefer my canned “sardines” with rice instead of crackers).
Brown Rice
Can
Fish Steaks
Capers
To remember.
All the cans in our pantry were not packed in the United States. This can was packed in Poland. Sigh.
I’ll spare you what the finished dish looked like. To give you an idea, The Cat called it “cat food”.
Happy belated father’s day dad. It also would have been his b-day in a few days, so happy b-day too.
Enjoy.
The Mouse
Posted in Onigiri, Rice, tagged Brown Rice, Onigiri, Rice, Umeboshi on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A friend has assigned a project for this blog. He wants my opinion on the best onigiri or omusubi (stop twisting my arm). So, from time to time, I’ll be testing and tasting the different onigiri I meet (I know, it’s a hard job, but someone has to do it). 
First up is an umeboshi onigiri made with brown rice.
Umeboshi Onigiri (Brown Rice)
I know, not much to look at; but since this is the first post of the series, for those of you that don’t know what an onigiri looks like, there it is. The onigiri was purchased at the Japanese warehouse membership market.
Umeboshi Onigiri (Brown Rice)
The umeboshi was very large and very tart (in a good way). The brown rice did not stick together very well, so after one bite the onigiri fell apart and I finished it with a fork. The brown rice made the onigiri healthy but not very practical to eat on the run (or standing up).
The search continues.
Enjoy.
The Mouse
Posted in Ingredients, tagged Brown Rice, Grains on October 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Our cousins P & B gave us a package of Trader Joe’s brown rice medley. They said they liked this blend. I tried some for lunch the other day.
Brown Rice Medley
The medley consists of parboiled long grain brown rice, black barley, and daikon radish seeds.
Brown Rice Medley
I steamed the medley with brown rice (about half and half). After cooking, I smelled the rice and added celery seeds for additional flavor. For a change, instead of eating sardines or furikake with the rice, I ate it with peanut butter. I didn’t take a picture of the finished product, The Cat would say ewww! (although she will eat zhou aka jook with peanut butter). I thought the combination was very good.
Thanks P & B.
Enjoy.
The Mouse
