How To Make World’s Easiest Fried Rice

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Think fried rice, and one of those white, lantern-shaped boxes with red lettering and a thin metal handle might come to mind. That’s because, for most of us, Chinese fried rice comes from a restaurant or is delivered to your door in just such a container.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

You can make amazing fried rice at home, on your schedule, and with the exact ingredients you want. Best of all, it’s easy. After making fried rice at home for years, I’ve found a new way that’s way faster and way easier: By prepping not just the rice the night before, but everything that will go into fried rice.

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Rice Pudding Brulee Is an Easy Yet Amazing Dessert

Rice pudding brulee is a delicious take on a classic dessert.

Rice pudding. It’s a tasty, sensible, inexpensive, and non-daring dessert. But one small change to the top transforms it from simply tasty to surprisingly wonderful. And that top involves sugar and fire.

Before diving into how to make my special take on rice pudding, a quick background.

Rice pudding is a mixture of rice, milk, eggs, and other ingredients such as sugar and flavorings like vanilla extract and cinnamon. It is highly customizable. While short- or medium-grain white rice is the traditional stuff used for the main component, there’s no reason you can’t use long-grain white rice, jasmine rice, brown rice, etc.

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