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So tonight I made teriaki rice with veggies in it for me and the boys. It was delicious and very hardy.

Yech. I hate nutty textures.

I made animal-style fries yesterday which were bomb!

I deep fried some seasoned frozen french fries.
I sauteed some onions with olive oil, black pepper, white pepper, salt, and a pinch of mild chili pepper seasoning.
Put the fries in a bowl with the onions on top.
Then I dripped over some thousand island dressing on top.
Added some graded cheese.
Warmed it up in the microwave for like a minute.

And BAM! You got yourself some bomb animal-style fries! 8D

And my dad recommended adding some bell peppers. ^^

"And don't add too much cheese!" he says. XDD

more chilli powder, i say! and garlic and onion!

I just made some killer rice and thai peanut sauce out of the stuff we had left in the cupboards..

Just throw a couple of dollops of ORGANIC (must be organic, otherwise it's too sweet) peanut butter into a saucepan, soften. Add some coconut milk or cream, stir in garlic, green onions, salt, ginger, black pepper, and about a teaspoon of soysauce (I use braggs liquid aminos, way less sodium) to taste and a few dashes of sesame oil. I put in a little orange juice too to give it some tang. Serve over steamed brown rice coloured with a dash of tumeric to give it that pretty yellow and top with a sprig of parsley along with more sesame seeds sprinkled on top and you have a pretty, inexpensive, quick dish that is satisfying and great for you. Would probably go well with chicken or beef if you're a meat-eater.

Oh... and I like brown rice. It's chewier than white rice but it has a lot more nutrients:

When only the outermost layer of a grain of rice (the husk) is removed, brown rice is produced. To produce white rice, the next layers underneath the husk (the bran layer and the germ) are removed, leaving mostly the starchy endosperm.

Several vitamins and dietary minerals are lost in this removal and the subsequent polishing process. A part of these missing nutrients, such as Vitamin B1, Vitamin B3, and iron are sometimes added back into the white rice making it "enriched", as food suppliers in the US are required to do by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)[citation needed]. [1]

One mineral not added back into white rice is magnesium; one cup (195 grams) of cooked long grain brown rice contains 84 mg of magnesium while one cup of white rice contains 19 mg.

When the bran layer is removed to make white rice, the oil in the bran is also removed. Rice bran oil may help lower LDL cholesterol.[2]

Among other key sources of nutrition lost are small amounts of fatty acids and fiber.

In addition to having greater nutritional value, brown rice is also said to be less constipating than white rice.