As previously mentioned, I have been doing most of my cooking on a hotplate. Unfortunately, the heat is very difficult to control, the buttons are all marked in Chinese characters, and my frying pan got destroyed during the first use. Not sure what went wrong with the pan, but while stir-frying veggies, metal bits started flaking off, and when rinsed, the pan rusted, so the pan was discontinued. I still have a pot for cooking rice and other such things, but given the fickle temperature of the hot plate, rice typically burns.
This left me eating lots of raw fruits and veggies, until an ex-pat friend suggested a rice cooker. It's stupidly simple; you literally add your rice and your water and press a button... 20 minutes later you have perfectly cooked rice. The rice cooker also steams veggies, so my cooking situation has improved drastically. Upon searching for vegetarian rice cooker recipes online, it seems i'll literally be able to cook everything in there: frittatas, soup, beans, etc. I am quite excited about this new, easy to use gadget!
I like rice. Did you know that? Most forms, fried, steamed, brown, sake, risotto. It's rice day to rice dream like that.
ReplyDeletethe question is, do you like ricemellow fluff?
ReplyDeletewhat is ricemellow fluff, anyways? how is the cooking going these days? you are on it with blogging, i need to keep up! oh oh- i just tried moochi recently; it's made from brown rice and it's really tasty. do they have that in china?
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