Recipe: Joe's Fried Rice

Joe's Fried Rice (or the world's simplest known recipe):

Ingredients:

2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 medium onion
2 cups of cooked white rice
ketchup

Preparation:

Peel and finely dice the onion – brown lightly in the oil in a large skillet. Stir in the rice with a few dashes of ketchup – just enough to turn it a pink color. Cook for 5-10 minutes over medium heat. Do not cover.

Note: Joe used to cut our hair at Coast Guard Loran Station Miyako Jima. He also had a restaurant and supplied the local teahouses with black market food items, such as fried chicken, which he made like I have never seen anywhere else. He fileted a chicken leg, so the meat hung from the thigh end of the bone and fried it with the bones sticking up – kinda like a chicken pop. He has a saying that he repeated as he cut our hair, “In Miyako Jima everything grow tall, sugar cane grow tall, peter grow tall.”