Be careful with frozen leftovers
When im hungry and at home with no money I use my imagination and work with what I have in the kitchen, like in Sesame Street or MacGyver. Today I realized that I could make rice, coffee, and pizza made out of sliced bread and McDonald’s ketchup packets.
Disappointed, I looked into the freezer and found a mysterious bag full of frozen lumpia. I say mysterious because I could have sworn it wasn’t there before. Also, I didn’t know how old it was. Im not good with carbon dating but I think it dated back to the Cretaceous period. I decided to take a chance and unfortunately the only oil I could work with was some old peanut oil from Thanksgiving 1982.
When I was finished frying I tried one, threw it in the garbage with the rest of them, and came up with this list of things not to do when frying lumpia:
- Don’t use lumpia older than your nieces and nephews.
- If you have no choice but to use old cooking oil, be sure there aren’t any fuzzy balls or grit from whatever your ancestors fried with it.
- Make sure that the oil isn’t too hot before throwing the lumpia in. If the lumpia catches fire, pray from your mom’s old Novena book.
rice and ketchup is already a meal fit for a king.
Ketchup or soy sauce, you can’t lose. Actually both ketchup AND soy sauce is good. But seriously, mix soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, a bit of vinegar and water and you have the PERFECT homemade marinade. Take that Rachel Ray!