Dinner - Easter Leftovers (Teryaki rice & pig)

The Meal

Ah Easter, a great holiday where my mother cooks for 12 hours. Today I will be using the first of the remnants, crumpled boiled ham and jasmin rice (rice was uncooked). I also have kidney beans that were soaked overnight, rinsed and drained. The beans are where the teryaki sauce was added, 1 tablespoon, was all, but I also added chili powder to add some kick.

This meal was prepared in several parts:

• 1/4 cup of jasmine rice
  [160 calories]

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I found this bag of opened rice in my parents basement, completely full, but a year past expiration. I decided to try to cook up a 1/4 cup and see how it came out. I didn't wash the rice, but boiled it with 1/2 cup water. I let it soak for 20 minutes prior to cooking. After determining the rice was okay, I started working on the kidney beans.

Last night I figured I'd start using whats left of my kidney beans. I soaked 2 tablespoons in a container with water overnight, or for about 10 hours. The beans absorbed all of the water. An hour before using the beans, I drained off the water, and added the Teriyaki sauce and chilli powder.

• 2 tablespoons red kidney beans
  [~60 calories]
• 1 tablespoon Teriyaki sauce
  [30 calories]
• 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder

To the meat. As I said earlier, I crumpled up some ham left overs, and I have bacon I needed to cook, so I did what any logical person would do! I chopped up the uncooked bacon, put it in the rice cooker, added the crumpled ham, and let the mixture simmer and pop for 20 minutes.

• 120 grams of boiled ham
  [~70 calories]
• 2 slices 365 smoke house bacon
  [70 calories]

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After those two items were nicely cooked, I threw the kidney beans (with water and spices still in container) into the mixture, let it simmer for 10 minutes, then added in my rice.

Taste

Review: Surprisingly the beans were still very firm, though did retain most of the original flavor and spice. The main flavor of this dish was the ham and bacon, which was a great flavor. The rice acted as a nice filler so that the dish isn't too fatty (no fat was drained in the cooking of the meal). Overall, this was a tastey as hell meal, nice flavors all around, different depending on what was eaten first. Cooking the ham in bacon fat was a great idea, as it crisped the ham. Definitely would use this recipe again, increasing the amount of rice to 1/3 cup.

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Portion Size: 1 medium portion, 1-2 small portions

Calories: 390

Score: 8/10

Ideas for next time: Chop bacon before cooking, add more rice.