Yum Yum Jap

Recently, I've been craving rice. Weird, I know. Mostly rice with different sauces-- Mexican, with queso. Japanese, with white sauce. Chinese, with duck sauce. The list continues. Last weekend we ate at a local spot called Hibachi and spent $20 some. So on Valentine's day I was really wanting to go back, even though Dane hates the place.

So I thought to myself, why go out and spend money when we pretty much have everything here to make it ourselves? So I posted a few pictures on facebook and some friends wanted the recipes.

Fried Rice:

• Make your rice and cool in the fridge

(I use boil in the bag rice because you can't mess it up like traditional rice)

• brown your meat (we used steak, but anything would be good!)
• separate your meat onto a plate
• scramble two beaten eggs in your non-stick pan
• break them up into pieces
• add one cup of veggies
• add 2 tbsp soy sauce (we used way more)
• add cooled rice
• add browned meat
• cook 6-8 minutes or until veggies are tender
• add salt and pepper to taste

White Japanese Shrimp Sauce
(I actually think it's orange, but whatever!)

• melt 2 tbsp butter

combine the following ingredients (I used Tupperware so I could easily store afterwards, it made a lot)

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 cup mayo
• 3 tbsp white vinegar (I think it actually calls for rice vinegar but I couldn't find it)
• 3 tbsp sugar (I added a little more at the end to cancel out some of the vinegar)
• 3/4 tsp paprika
• 3/8 tsp garlic powder (about three pinches)

combine these together and whisk until smooth...cool & serve over rice (or everything)

There's different recipes out there but I thought this one tasted pretty authentic! You can taste it after and tweak anything you want to! Enjoy!