Ham Fried Rice with Pineapple

Ten minutes

Can I start? Yeah. So we make recipes, we make meals, and then you have leftovers

What are you going to do with leftover rice? Leftover rice is not good for anything. Yes, it is

Rice pudding. Paula Deen's here to tell you what to do with your leftover rice

So what are you making? We're going to do a fried rice. The first thing people think about with us, Asian food

Well, you know, we used to sell fried rice at the Bag Lady. Sure did

And Mom made her own shrimp sauce. Yes. We ate shrimp sauce every night for a week

until Mom could figure out what was in it. So we're going to put some ginger in this

This is a good trick, y'all, if you've got ginger. See, this is a regular peeler is not going to work on this

So my friend Brianna said, you know what? Use a spoon, and then you can get down in the nooks and crannies

and we're going to need about a tablespoon of this ginger. And Mama's got some garlic, and we're going to do some scallions

Mom, you got our panel? Yes, it's on. Put our pan on, and we're going to do a little bit of oil in here

Yes. And we're going to saute this down, and this is step one. I've got six green onions, y'all

I'm going to use about a tablespoon of this ginger, I think. And I used three hearty cloves of garlic

Let's play a game, okay? Okay. The speed round. Leftovers. Ready? Yes

Pot roast. Oh, pot roast. Open-faced pot roast sandwich with mayonnaise. Yeah, I mean, yeah

Meatloaf. Meatloaf sandwiches with mayonnaise. Yes. Fried chicken. Oh, chicken salad. Roasted pork loin OK barbecue Barbecue the next day Barbecue sandwich with mayonnaise Oh how about leftover salmon Oh salmon salad It out of this world This is so low

Leftover ham. Well, you know, at the restaurant... I say fried rice

Fried rice. All right. So, at the restaurant, we had served ham, and we had so much

and I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I'm gonna just beat up a couple of eggs in here, y'all

I couldn't figure out what to do with it, so I came up with a three-meat pasta

Still one of our customers' favorites. One of their favorites. I took that ham, y'all

I cut it into chunks. I took, like, smoked sausage, cut it into rings

and then I took some of our leftover fried chicken, and so that was my three meats

and I mixed those with pasta, made a cream sauce, and it is heavenly

So good. All right, I'm just pushing my stuff over to the side, son

and I'm just going to scramble up those eggs. Because, you know, fried rice

just eating fried rice without a little scrambled egg in it, right

We've got our eggs. We've got some pineapple that's a really good flavor in there, too

and the ginger's going to make a big difference. We've got English peas. So this really is an easy thing to put together

They're just using up some of your leftovers. Dump my rice right in there

I always think of rice pudding as a poor man's dessert because in the South they would take their leftover rice which they had rice quite often like rice and potatoes because it was a cheap food I get some soy in there Mom Yes

I'm going to put about a fourth of a cup of soy sauce, y'all

I do love the peas. Go ahead and drop the pineapple. It smells awesome

It does, doesn't it? You know, if you wanted to make this a little healthier

I think a lot of people nowadays are cooking brown rice. So you could even make fried rice using brown rice

You know, it just looked like it already had the soy sauce on it. You know what I mean? Yep, and you can use the low-sodium soy sauce

Yeah. You could use chicken. You could do chicken fried rice. You know, son, I've noticed that you and I sure are fighting for the utensil

I'm more comfortable with me stirring. And I'm more comfortable with me stirring

Well, I wonder where I get it from. All right, get your fork, Pinochle, and let's go outside

And look at that, your protein, the egg, more protein, your fruit, your veggies, and your starch

It's good. All in one. Mm-hmm. Does it taste good, son? Does it need some more soy

No, it's so good. Is it? You want me to sit next to you

I don't know. Well, slide your big butt over. This is delicious. Mm-hmm

Lonnie, we eat a lot of leftovers when we were growing up. Yeah. I know we were stretching our dollars to the point of transparency

When we had leftovers yes son we did eat them You know sometimes it was very very hard getting up that grocery money And you know I a big component of waste not won not Both of my grandmothers

my grandmother Hires and my grandmother Paul, drilled that into my head. And they say that

A southern woman can make a fine pot of soup from a pan of dirty dishwater

You know, that we're just real good. Yes, and a ham bone

So you have to come up, but at the same time, you want to give your family good quality meals

And people admire you for a lot of different reasons, Mom, and love you for a lot of different reasons

I think this is going to be important for us, is to share with people how to take a leftover

and turn it into a good meal for your family. A lot of people take direction from you

So I'm lucky that I had you teach me. So we're going to have about half a pan of this leftover

What are you going to do with it, DeMar? He didn't eat it. He didn't eat it? It's the easiest thing to do with a leftover

Re-heat it and re-eat it. How about you put a little flour in it, get it gummy

and make Asian rice cakes? Let's do it. Pan-prime. That sounds good, doesn't it

Let's do it, son. Deal. All you'd have to do is put an egg in it. Yep

And a little flour. Fruit don't fall far from the tree. Let's hurry up and eat this so we can do it the other way

That's what we're going to do. That's how we roll. That's really good. Okay