Shoyu Chicken

Sources: http://www.hisurf.com/recipes/entrees/obas-shoyu-chicken.html and http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1618,146190-241200,00.html

Ingredients

Variable...
Some chicken (real precise, I know)
Water (a cup or so)
Shoyu (soy sauce) about a cup or two
A couple garlic cloves
Sugar (1/2 to 1 cup depending on taste)
An onion or two (sliced)
Ginger (the refrigerated paste if you've got it)
Honey (optional)
Corn starch
Rice

Directions

Cook your rice. In a pan add water, shoyu (soy sauce), diced garlic cloves, sugar, ginger, honey, and chicken. Try the sauce, and if it's too strong add water. If it's too sour add sugar. Just play with the different ingredients until you hit a mix you like. I recommend adding the onions when you're half done so they aren't too done. Make a rue (cornstarch and water) and add that at the end if you want your sauce to be thicker. Serve it over the rice. 

Notes

Had this in Hawaii, found some recipes, and I just adapt a couple of them. Play with the amounts. 

Fried Rice

(see source for detailed directions, nutrition facts, and suggestions)

I purposefully make the directions cripplingly simple so that you'll visit the source.

Source: Google it & you'll find something.

Ingredients

White rice
Egg
Whatever you want-- meat, veggies, anything at all
Garlic
Butter
Soy sauce
Celery

Directions

Partially cook a bunch of eggs until they are semi-cooked. Remove from pan, add butter and white rice. Add in everything else, add soy sauce to taste, and garlic. Mmm... garlic. More soy sauce, get an amount you like. I love celery chopped up in this. Haven't you had fried rice before? Add the normal stuff-- veggies, sliced ham, whatever. Add in the previously cooked egg, crack in a couple more eggs if you want more egg.

Notes

Just play this one by ear. Your stove top will be a mess, but it's tasty. I'm labeling this as healthy though it probably isn't. 8/10 for versatility, cheapness, and it tastes good.

Rice Pudding

(see source for detailed directions, nutrition facts, and suggestions)

I purposefully make the directions cripplingly simple so that you'll visit the source.

Source: http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/peruvian-lomo-saltado/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

2 cups cooked white rice
3 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar
dash of salt
1/2 cup raisins
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinammon optional
nutmeg optional

Directions

 Add it all together except the vanilla and cinnamon and boil it, then lower the heat and simmer it. Cook 30-45 mins until it's getting thicker. Then add vanilla/cinnamon. 

Notes

I usually use a lot more milk. Mmm... creamy... Bailey's... Great for leftover rice. 5/10 it tastes good, but not amazing. It's a good "oh crap the rice expanded and now I have a gallon of leftover rice" recipe.

Pesto Chicken

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I purposefully make the directions cripplingly simple so that you'll visit the source.

Source: http://www.kalynskitchen.com/2010/09/easy-recipe-for-baked-pesto-chicken.html

   Ingredients                                                   Directions

• Chicken breasts cut in strips
• Salt and black pepper
• 1/2 cup basil pesto (you may need much more)
• 1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese

Spread pesto on the bottom of a greased baking pan, cut the chicken in strips, stick it in the pan, and spread more pesto on top. Bake it at 375 for 25-30 minutes until it's barely cooked through, add mozzarella on top and bake until it's all melted and golden. Great with rice, couscous or quinoa.

Notes

This is really delicious. I don't know that pesto & cheese are very healthy, but I guess there are worse things out there. It's easy and if you made your own pesto (see the source) it could be decently cheap. 10/10