Comfort Food - My Recipe Rotation - Cantonese Fried Noodles

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I adore noodles, whether they are of the Asian or Italian variety, but there are certain of those dishes that have my name on them. This is one of them. These Cantonese noodles are mildly flavored and quick to prepare. They are easy on the stomach and perfect to serve at the end of a difficult day that has left you frazzled. Once you have mastered cooking with rice noodles, it is impossible to go wrong with this recipe. I don't have universal instructions for cooking with rice noodles, so it is important to read the instructions that come with the package you buy. The brands that are available to me are best if soaked in hot water until they soften. I finish them with a quick, and I do mean quick, toss in the wok that's just enough to heat them through. My early experiments with rice noodles were disastrous. I'd overcook them and they'd melt into the sauce and surrounding vegetables. I'm not always real quick to catch on, so it took a while to figure out what was happening. Once I nailed the procedure, these noodles became a regular, much loved, feature on my table. I first shared the recipe with you back in 2008. Here is what I had to say about them all those years ago.

Lower Calorie Rice + An Unusual Cabbage Fried Rice

From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Scientists have found a method for cooking white rice that reduces the starch and calories it contains by 10 to 12 percent. White rice is made up of digestible and resistant starches. Resistant starch takes a long time to digest and it is not converted into simple sugars, so it has fewer calories. Cooking alters how much of each type of starch there is in a food. Researchers in Sri Lanka have found a cooking method that reduces calories in rice because it increases the amount of resistant starch that rice kernels contain. Their method is simple. They add oil to the rice pot. The oil interacts with the starches in rice and converts digestible to resistant starch. A prolonged period of refrigeration further changes its composition, making it healthier and lower in calories than is usually the case. Here is the recommended method for cooking healthier rice.