This isn’t a cooking blog and I’ll never claim it to be. It’s more about my life, which tends to intersect with cooking occasionally. Last weekend my mother-in-law offered to help me learn to cook some traditional Mexican dishes. Since learning how to cook 5 dishes is on our 101 list, I thought it was a good time to get started.
I’d planned on learning to cook my first *dish*, but MIL’s expectations were much lower than my own- she started me off with rice! It was great- she did all the shopping, all the chopping, all the preparing and I just showed up. I learned something new- that you could throw rice into a pan with some oil and fry it. After it browned a bit, we tossed in some chopped onions, tomatoes, and peppers.
When those were cooked, we added the broth from a chicken which MIL had boiled earlier. Chop chicken & add to rice. Cook some more & cover. 
VIOLA! Yummy Mexican fried rice =)
GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: No poor innocent children or family is depending on me to cook any type of nourishment.
