My neighbor is having a Super Bowl get-together and asked what she should serve with the Crispy Indonesian Chicken Wings I gave her to taste. I suggested Fried Rice and she asked me for a recipe.

My fried rice ingredients are always dependent upon what I have in the house, but I usually can find a bag of frozen mixed vegetables, onions, water chestnuts, Chinese roast pork, and most of what's in the following instructions I put together for her. Unfortunately, although I bold-faced the ingredients they didn't come out in a bold font here when I pasted the recipe. If you really want to try this, you can figure out what you will need.

Isabel’s Fried Rice

Amounts are approximate.

Since you are making fried rice for more than two people you will have to adjust, but in general you have to prepare all the ingredients in advance to make it easy to throw the FR together, which will take under 5 minutes.

Cook your white rice (jasmine preferred) the night before and refrigerate. (Sushi rice or short grain rice is too sticky for FR. Don’t use it.)

Easiest veggies to include are from a bag of mixed frozen veggies – usually carrot, green beans, corn and peas. Pour into a bowl to wait to be added – no need to defrost. Drained can diced water chestnuts

Make slivers of onion cutting from top to bottom. Don’t make them too thin. They will burn.

Put garlic through a press – amount to your liking. I buy the peeled garlic at Sam’s or Aldi and save it in pint freezer containers so all I have to do is grab. It isn’t quite as heavily flavored as fresh, but the peeled kind of a lot easier – just use more.

If you wish you can sauté some shrimp and cut it into small pieces and set aside in a bowl. If you have char siu (Chinese roast pork) cut it into small pieces and set aside as well.

Start by putting a couple of tablespoons of neutral oil in your wok or large skillet that will hold the amount of rice you have. Add the sliced onion and stir fry on high heat, unless you are using a nonstick pan for which you are supposed to keep at medium heat. When the onions show that they are getting more translucent at the crushed garlic and stir for a short while till it gets fragrant – add the frozen veggies and stir those till they are not to well cooked, or they will be mushy.

Add a couple of tbsp of oil, eat it a bit, and then add the rice, breaking it up if it has clumps in it. Mix well and warm rice up thoroughly.

Push the rice aside and add a tablespoon of oil and spread it around where you will drop your egg or eggs. No need to pre-beat. Cover the egg with the rice and mix through.

Add the precooked shrimp and/or roast pork pieces and stir to combine. Add cashews if desired.

To season rice add a very small amount of fish sauce – perhaps a tablespoon, stir and taste and then add some Golden Mountain Sauce or low salt soy sauce – not too much! A little at a time. Finally add a very small squirt of sesame oil. Sprinkle with scallion rounds before serving.