What’s Egg in a Box?

We’re two sisters in New York who believe that the extra rice you get with Chinese food takeout can have a new life. If you’re like us, you get far too much rice with your delivery—much more than you can eat. Being a good conservator, you save it in the fridge, but it inevitably gets stale and thrown out. We got to thinking one evening that if we only added an egg to the rice, the leftovers would become a nutritious meal for a hungry person, and Egg in a Box was born.

Our idea is simple. Next time you have an extra box of rice, throw in a hard boiled egg and drop it off wherever you’d leave leftovers (replate it) — or eat it yourself. ...

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Today’s News: We’re digging fruit

That is, we are loving the taste of sweet and tart fruits with egg and rice. Easy to eat at home when you have the leftovers. Easy to give away, because whole fruits with pits like nectarines, peaches, and apricots are small and easily transportable. Sweet+salty delight.

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How to Boil an Egg

> Put eggs in a small sauce pan.
Optional: poke eggs with a pin to allow steam to release.
> Cover with water and heat water.
> Let water boil and then turn down to a simmer.
> Keep eggs in simmering water for 7-9 minutes.
> Run cool water over eggs and let sit for 3 minutes.
> Store for up to one month in the fridge.

Featured Recipe Query: Crunchy rice

What do you do with this much extra brown rice? These are two real-live views of our fridge from a few months ago. We ordered Chinese food for four, and later that night, one of us got hungry again and ordered a dish from the joint on the corner that delivers until 12am (this was a particularly intense ordering-in day). The remaining unopened boxes could either be given away, eaten soon, or saved until they got crunchier and made into something later.

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