Pro Tip #1- Cutting Garlic and Stuff

When cutting garlic, green onion, parsley, or anything else that sticks to your fingers when you sprinkle it, oil your fingers before hand with some olive oil.

To get the smell off afterwards, rub lemon juice on your hands.

Recipe #7 - Fried Rice

Good for getting rid of leftovers and cleaning out your fridge, this recipe is (as usual) simple, delicious, and completely customizable :)

Note #1: Brown rice is better to use if you're a vegetarian
Note#2: Whenever your making rice, it's always 1 cup rice to 1 1/2 cups of water

What you need:
1 cup of brown rice
1 1/2 cups of water
(or already cooked rice. I'm making it fresh)
1 1/2 pounds of shrimp (mine were pre-cooked)
1 red pepper
1 zucchini
1/2 cup of frozen corn
1 cup of chopped broccoli
1 large carrot, grated
4 green onions
sweet chile sauce
sesame oil
1 tbsp olive oil

What to do:
Put the rice in a pot and set the burner to high.
When it starts to boil turn it right down to low.
Leave it covered for approx. 30 minutes (or until all the water is gone)

Soak the shrimp in water to thaw them.

Chop your veggies and put them in a frying pan with your olive oil (burner set to med.).
Pour your sweet chile sauce and sesame oil on your veggies and stir. Add as much or as little as you like.
When they reached the desired level of cookedness take all the contents out and put it in a bowl for later.

Put the shrimp in the frying pan and heat until hot.

Put the cooked rice, and veggies in the frying pan and mix it allllll together!

Serve and enjoy.
This serves 4, or two with lunches.

Recipe #6 - Pasta Salad

This dish is super simple and delicious. The possibilities are endless as well. You can make it fresh or with leftover noodles. It's also a good way to empty your fridge.

What I used:
-Half a bag of spiral noodles
-Half a cucumber
-1 red pepper
-1 orange pepper
- A can of olives
- A handful of cherry tomatoes
- Balsamic vinegar

What to do:
- Fill a large pot 2/3 full of water and set to "high" on the stove
-Wash and chop your veggies
*This part is optional*
Put some olive oil in a frying pan
Set it to "high"
Add the peppers and tomatoes
Fry until they reach desired mushyness
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-When the water boils add the noodles
-Cook until soft all the way through but not overly so
-Drain

Dump everything in a bowl and splash some vinegar (or salad dressing) over everything.

Eat and enjoy!
This gave me dinner and a lunch for the next day.


Note: You can literally add anything to a pasta salad. Meat, cheese, strawberries, other veggies, etc. It will taste great no matter what.