Making something out of nothing

Nothing might be a bit of an exaggeration.  Tonight's dinner was, as promised yesterday, a transformation of leftovers into something brand new.  My grandma is a pro at this.  Leftover roast beef is cooked up with potatoes and onions to make hash, picked-over chicken carcasses are used to make soup, and miscellaneous meat and rice are thrown together to make fried rice.

This is spam fried rice done the right way, no shortcuts.  I fried up the eggs, set them aside, browned the spam, set it aside, fried and seasoned the rice with soy and oyster sauces, then threw it all together.  Right before I was done cooking, I mixed in chopped green onions.  I purposely didn't use too much soy sauce since spam is pretty salty, and it was a good call.  There was a lot of spam, so it was feasible to have one piece with every bite of rice so you'd have the balance of salty and mild flavors along with the sharpness of not-too-cooked green onions.  I was pretty pleased with myself.

This is another one of those shout out to grandma posts.  She gave me a significant portion of my cooking acumen, and I'll never be hungry again because of it.  Well, unless I can't afford food to cook.  Let's not think about that prospect...