Those of you who know Shortcake know that she loves pasta. Loves it. And she has always loved it. There is a photo of a one year old Shortcake with spaghetti all over her face. Clearly, her parents were more interested in procuring a humiliating photo than in helping her eat dinner cleanly.
The point is, Shortcake eats a lot of pasta. Probably one meal a day is made of pasta. Because it is delicious, easy to make, and easily made in bulk. (Shortcake is not fond of cooking more than once or twice a week, especially when she has to pack her lunch every morning.) (Shortcake has been eating a salad for lunch while at Santaland. Be very proud of her. This is an accomplishment.)
You would think Shortcake would also love rice because it is delicious, easy to make and easy to make in bulk.
You would be wrong.
Rice is actually very hard to make. It requires paying attention to the rice (Shortcake tends to wander away from the kitchen - this is why baking and boiling water are the limit of her cooking prowess. No, really, she was taken off waffle duty once because she kept walking away from the waffle iron.). There is a very short span of time between uncooked rice and overcooked rice. Pasta is much more forgiving. Shortcake and rice are not friends.
So Santa gave Shortcake his rice recipe. It should be foolproof. Shortcake will try it out.
Santa's Rice Recipe
Boil water on stove
1 cup rice in covered microwavable pot w/ 1 tablespoon oil
Microwave rice on high 2 minutes
Stir
Microwave on high 1 minute
Add 2 cups (minus 2 tablespoons) boiling water
Microwave on high 5 minutes
Microwave on 60% 5 minutes
1 comment:
Dear Shortcake Jingleberry,
No disrespect to Santa, but that is the most time consuming recipe for cooking rice I have ever seen! Here is my EASY recipe:
1 cup rice
2 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon butter or olive oil
Put all ingredients in 2 quart saucepan that has a lid (but do not put the lid on it now)
Turn the burner on medium heat or high if you are in a hurry. Stir until the water begins to boil. Put the lid on the pan. Turn the burner to simmer. Set the timer for 20 minutes. You nay leave the kitchen; just listen for the timer. When you hear the timer, return to the kitchen and turn the burner off and the timer off. Leave the rice covered; reset the timer for 10 minutes. When you return to the kitchen, you should have a pan of perfectly cooked rice.
Of course, if you are cooking brown rice, I will have to send you another recipe.
Love you2
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