About rice cookers, I have one at home and one at work. I read I Love My Rice Cooker on bookshare and started trying all these new ideas. Did you know you can fry onions in one? It's just like an electric skillet. At work, I put some butter in it, a red bell pepper or onion chopped, fry it, add liquid and close the lid and let the whole thing cook a while. If I've measured the right amount of liquid and rice I let it shut itself off when the rice absorbs all the liquid, but if I'm making soup or stew I just turn it off after ten minutes or so. I don't cook meat in it but a lot of vegie type stews and of course rice.
I also have a crockpot at work. I would soak beans in it overnight and then turn it on when I got to the office in the morning. I also often combined a can of soup with a few fresh vegetables in the crockpot, or I'd core and slice apples and stuff them in there with a pinch of cinnamon for a few hours. My co-workers always thought it was crazy , me cooking right there in my office but I liked having a hot healthy lunch and it was fun to experiment. I would spend my lunch hour exercising, then return to the office and prepare my meal while I continued to work. Stuck now at home due to Covid with a husband who doesn't like vegetables I make a lot of hamburger helper on the stove but I miss my office and my appliances and endless vegetarian experiments. --Debee _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
