Josh enjoying the meal and giving me our only outside chair. Awwww.

I joined Josh on the deck and it was fabulous.

Spaghetti Rice!

Rice, spaghetti sauce with onion and basil and oregano, fresh steamed broccoli (under the white plate in the bowl) and best of all.... not made by me! Made by my fabulous and fabulously talented Jorshua. Hur hur humph mrrrrrr.

Spring Roll noms!

Peanut sauce and spring rolls is a nom match made in heaben. ^____^

Not-so-secret ingredients in the rolls:

Basil

Mint

Green onion

Lettuce? Obvious to some perhaps but not to others!

Rice!

Josh bought me a cooking book called 'Rice' at a garage sale over the weekend. It is liek a million different recipes. Only with rice. Which is great for ME since that is the staple of my diet.

One of the ideas in the book was to make a egg-rice quiche with a rice-egg-cheese crust.

For the crust (picture numero uno) mix 1 cup of rice (fresh worked better for me since it was more "sticky") with 1 egg and a small handfull (1 Lisa handfull, about 1/2 a Josh handfull) of grated cheese. Mix and mash into the outside of the pie tin. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 F (I lurb 350 F for cooking, so versatile!) and then fill with nommy.

For the inside I used 2 cups of rice, 3 eggs, 1/4 cup of low fat milk, a really big carrot, two handfulls of mushrooms, 1 regular sized polish sausage, broccoli... really one could mix anything one wants in there. Seasoning is pretty important. I used hot sauce, cayenne pepper, taco bell packets (all the spices COMBINE into warm deliciousness!), paprika, and a tiny amount of cardamom as a not-so-secret ingredient.

Covered it with tin foil and baked for 30 minutes before unwrapping and baking for another 10. Om nom! Not the prettiest dish but tastes beautiful on the inside ^_-