I've always struggled with cooking any rice other than Minute Rice. I make Randy do it when I need rice. Alice, however, has an entire chapter just on rice. Shoot (and that's not exactly the word I am really thinking). I gotta do this. I gotta cook rice. Sooooo, I started the rice chapter with Red Rice Pilaf. The rice is actually sauteed in olive oil and already-sweated onions before you add the liquid which, in this case, is chicken broth. This might help me.
The other thing that's cool about this recipe is that it calls for a bunch of stuff I happen to have: leftover chicken, a couple Roma tomatoes, and some broccoli. You could make this recipe using any weird leftovers, however, which makes it a great go-to dinner.
Long story short, it turned out GREAT! I know enough to leave the lid on, since I've looked too often many times before. And I know enough to let the damned thing just rest for awhile after the heat comes off, although Alice has you do that, too.
I am a happy camper. I cooked rice. Randy was amazed. So was I. And I hardly thought about politics all day.
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