Day 3: Having a "Potluck"

Yeah, this picture looks like it came from a catalog!

I know potlucks typically consist of separate dishes contributing to a meal, not taking your guests' food and putting it in a recipe, but #1 only had rice to add to the meal and I wasn't feeling inspired as to what to have with a side of rice.  We still have a plethora of ham from Easter, so I went to allrecipes.com and entered "rice ham".  It brought up a few options and I was surprised to see a fried rice recipe.  I'm not all that fond of fried rice, but I figured what the heck.  I had the majority of the ingredients already.  As expected, my kids' reactions to the meal went like this.

#1:  Hmm.  Maybe it will be good. 
#2:  This is good!  (Before he took a bite)
#3:  Fine. I'll eat it.  (Expecting to be rewarded for it)
Daughter:  Stared at it in horror, but ate it.

It was actually quite tasty!  I bought some reduced sodium soy sauce from Trader Joe's, which I ended up liking much better.  My friend said, "You must have done a really good job with the rice because he got seconds."

She was referring to #3.  I ran to get my camera because he rarely likes anything I make.  I told her, "No, that's ice cream."

That figures.

Now allow me to review the recipe allrecipes.com style.  This is when you change the recipe and give it 5 stars.

This recipe was awesome!  I doubled the ham, didn't cook the green onion as long as it said to, added about half as much salt, omitted the sprouts, used fresh chopped carrots, and served reduced sodium soy sauce on the side.  5 stars!