First of all, let me preface this post with the following: I don't have anything substantive to complain about. I don't work on Mondays. I have three day weekends every weekend. It is fantastic.
In order to entertain myself and avoid doing the things I should do (study Spanish, research places to work in San Francisco, etc.) I spend my free time reading (in English), cooking, and planning trips.
Today (Monday), I decided to be 'productive' because Sundays in Madrid mean waking up late and going to the park to get some sun for half the day. So....I woke up, went for a run and then proceeded to my favorite Asian grocery store. I stocked up on tofu, ramen, rice, and green tea and then took the Metro home to cook myself some lunch.
Our stove is electric - I loathe electric stoves - but I have adjusted. I have NOT adjusted to the cheap pans that make cooking rice and having it turn out edible almost impossible. I even soak it before I cook it (for at least half an hour) and it still doesn't help.
Today, I have officially given up the 'challenge' of cooking rice in a cheap pan. No more gummy rice, no more scrubbing pans for 10 minutes. I quit!! Cheap pans 1, Me 0. From now on, I'm borrowing my roommate's rice cooker...
no one in asia cooks rice in pans anymore because rice cookers are so effing convenient!
ReplyDeletethe cadillac of cookers here is zojirushi - soooo nice. i have been registered for one since before i started planning a wedding.
I'm going to buy one for sure. If you get two for your wedding, I call dibs on the extra one!
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