Fun With Rice

Fun with Rice is a game the whole family can play!

Since I started cooking for myself, I began to realise that my rice skills were not really up to scratch. Stir fries that could have been soup, rice that could have been bread, vegies that could have been, well, vegies...

I have been having Fun with Rice for the last three weeks and I have learned quite a few things, including:

- how long to cook rice for
- why it is a good idea to ignite gas hobs immediately after turning them on
- the value of clean cutlery
- the art of rotating the plate of a hot meal so as to get the cooler bits first
- how to pack vegetables into a small fridge

I thought that since I am moving on to Fun with Pasta as of my last shopping run (yesterday), I would take some photos of how far I have come since the days of the slop I cooked after secondary school (and in those days I cooked out of compulsion rather than necessity - I would have been perfectly happy with chips - now I'm not so sure). So here they are...

Picture number 1: Assemble your ingredients on the bench for a photo shoot before you fry them in burning hot oil and soy sauce















Picture 2: Chop your vegetables up and assemble nicely on a plate (note that the faster cooking vegetables are together, the slower (harder) vegetables also together. Do not be mean to your vegetables, even if the carrots are as manky as these ones. While chopping chillies, do not succumb to any urges to scratch, and in fact keep your fingers away from your nose for at least 12 hours after handling chillies.















Picture 3: Cook your stuff like I told you and add some green stuff on top to make it tasty. There is rice underneath all that. Cook your vegies as little as possible to ensure you can actually taste the different ones when you eat them.















No Fun with Food session would be complete without that best game (my mother's favourite): Tidy Up Time At The Zoo.















Don't be an arsehole. Clean the stuff up so the other flatmates feel guilty for being such slobs.

Hints:

Try an all-green cook-up for 'Adventure Rice': use green peppers and chillies instead of red ones, add courgettes, use celery, beans, spring onion, chop the onions up real fine, add green food colouring to the rice while cooking. The 'Adventure' part comes when you hit a chilli instead of capsicum. Fun!

Next time I have Fun With Rice I will be adding some variations. If you have an idea you'd like to see on the next Fun With Rice or Fun With Food, leave a comment and I'll think about it.

Coming Soon...

- Fun With Pasta
- Fun With Beer
- Fun With Bread
- Fun With Garlic