Just wanted to say a quick thanks for everyone for the lovely what to do with rice ideas. I am happy to say that we had great success today, I used some up some left over stir fry (containing rice, veg, meat, garlic, ginger, rice wine vinegar and soy sauce - just a touch promise!) and bound it with some beaten egg, bread crumbs, flour - oh and some organix rice cake crumbs when I ran out of bread crumbs - oh a mothers ingenuity!!! It was a bit of a mare at first getting it to bind together but finally it did and we shallow fried it in olive oil on each side.....and we can happily report that Xavier gobbled it up - which was a relief as the cuboard was rather bare. So thanks again - looking forward to the next attempt. Carriex