Recipe for this Ketchup-Spam Fried Rice at the end of the post.
In college, making your own fried rice is at times a revelation (at least over junky cafeteria food). Not very fancy, relatively easy, and so damn good if you do it right, which you can, even with the junkiest of stove top burners.
What I love about fried rice is the flexibility of ingredients. The most basic fried rice can be put together with a little oil, rice, egg, and salt/or soy sauce. Technically you could omit the salt/or soy sauce and egg, but you can imagine what it'd taste like: nothing. You can build upon your fried rice with various meats, vegetables, aromatics, spices, sauces, etc. which I'll talk about further in the post.
