Cooking in the UK: Omurice

I decided to make a nice home cooked meal for the great girl I'm staying with here in England.  There was the obstacle to overcome that I cook a lot of elaborate Asian food . . . not conductive to tiny British Kitchens or to the lack of a wok . . .  and 1 small pot and 1 small frying pan.  Mik-bot love ketchup, so I decided to try and make some omurice. I used my normal recipe really, but with chicken . . . cooked in a pot.



What I did:

Cute and delicious . . .

Look a tiny dragon!

Pot of chicken . . .

Giant rice pot!

Look how good it turned out!

And for desert!

It worked pretty good.  Chicken and omelet were amazing.  Cooking it in a pot didn't seem to hurt it.  Mik-bot took one bit and said "this might be what Japanese kids think of for home cooking, but this is what my kinds are going to think of for home cooking."  I guess that means it is good!

Note:  I had to use a gas stove . . . I felt a bit like I was going to die, but it worked.

Omurice! - Japanese comfort food

One of my favorite meals to make is Omurice.  It is pretty much fried rice, ketchup, and omelet.  That doesn't make it sound very good, but it is delicious.  Originally I started with a recipe, but now I just make it however I want.  Just Hungry has a good version that feeds one . . . usually I have enough rice to make two meals and just make another omelet for the leftovers. 

Tonight I did the following.  First I fried up the onion on a little bit of oil.  While that was frying I cut up a bit of spam . . . I know the recipe says chicken, but I like spam and I had it.  I then dropped that in the pan. 

Starting to cook it up.

I fried it a little bit and then added a whole bunch of peas.  This usually makes me feel like its a more well rounded meal, after all it has onions, peas, and tomatoes (their in Ketchup).  Once that is all hot and together I add the rice.  I usually add about a cup or a cup and a half based on how much I have to mix into it.  When the rice is done make a omelet shaped mount on the plate.

Fried Rice

All mounded up for the omelet

Then I make the omelet.  I usually do two eggs, but occasionally three if I'm very hungry . . . or one if its for a bento or something.  Its a simple omelet, just salt and pepper.  Apparently there are styles where you keep it runny in the middle (this only works if you have a few eggs and a small heating surface).  Personally I like to make a non-runny omelet that is nice and flat and then flip it on top.  Then you add more Ketchup!

Omelet

All stacked up

Ready to Eat!

See, whats not to like?  Apparently at high end places they make a sauce (for a discussion of this watch the Jdrama Lunch Queen and read my blog post about it).