Quick & Dirty Fried Rice

[drawsmcgraw]

So a friend of mine got me, among others, a Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale. I had it last night with some shark steak (another story...), miso soup, and edamame, all made by said friend (what can I say, I got good friends). Great food aside, the smell of this beer just made me start jonesing for fried rice. It must be the roasted soba. I have no idea what

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[the_nita]

Soba is a buckwheat noodle.

[drawsmcgraw]

Interesting... thanks.

[the_nita]

I suspec in this case, it's just referring to the buckwheat, not the noodle.*G*

[antikythera]

Mmmm. That's pretty much how I make fried rice -- leftover rice, soy sauce, a bit of sesame oil. When I use an egg, I scramble and fry it before the rice, set it aside, and cut it into strips and add it at the end.

If you want to avoid cholesterol, you could leave out the bacon and keep the egg. ;) If you really want to avoid cholesterol, make it completely vegan and use some firm or medium-firm tofu. It has a lovely eggy texture when fried up like that.

Soba is buckwheat, I think. I've only ever seen the word in the context of Japanese buckwheat noodles.

[drawsmcgraw]

Yeah, I guess that did sound counterproductive with the bacon and complaining about cholesterol. I won't use the bacon again, just sounded really good, and it was :)

The tofu is an awesome idea.. why didn't I think of that? Should I use the silken stuff or the water bath stuff?

[antikythera]

I've never used silken, but from what I know of it, it would just crumble into impossibly tiny bits if you tried to fry it. Just use plain old cheap water-bath stuff that comes in the plastic tub because it's not quite firm enough to hold itself up in a bag.

[empressdaleth]

oh, I LOVE those sausages with noodles and with greens

[drolepixie9]

I usually cut them up into little slices as a topping for pizza. :)

[wileflowr]

i always start with garlic and ginger in the oil!
and i dont use eggs bc im 19 and apparently have high cholesterol. sucks for me hehe.

[esmerel]

But but.. how was the beer?

I have yet to try the Morimoto ale. I keep thinking i should :)

[drawsmcgraw]

The beer was awesome, as is anything from Rogue. Given a selection of other Rogue beers, I'd sooner go for the Double Chocolate Stout (dear God, the chocolate stout!), but that's just me. But make sure you have some kind of asian dish on hand (like fried rice!), because my craving for asian food became fierce after about half the bottle. If you want more sophisticated reviews, the link I gave goes to Beer Advocate; tons of educated reviews.

[esmerel]

I am -very- fond of Rogue. :) I've been up to their restaraunt in SF once. MM, beer. I'm most fond of Dead Guy, myself, but I'm very partial towards reds and ambers. I don't think to visit beeradvocate very often, mostly because I've got an account on ratebeer.com.

Hmmm. I have some leftover vietnamese food in my fridge. :)

[drawsmcgraw]

There's a Rogue restaurant!??! I gotta get the next flight to San Francisco NOW.

Sadly, I'm in MS and me and my buddies have to make special beer expeditions to get anything other than Dead Guy.