I enjoy to cook. I do fairly well at it, cooking, baking, I really enjoy being creative with food and like to experiment with new recipes and combinations of foods and really like adding various spices to my creations.
I got interested in cake decorating after watching the TV show Ace of Cakes on the Food Network (http://www.charmcitycakes.com/) and discovered that that was a fun way to combine my art degree with my love of food, I would do more of it except that having that much cake around is not a good idea, I prefer not to eat my weight in cake. I have made an Easter Bunny cake (it actually looked like an rabbit) I like using fondant and can make pretty good white chocolate and marshmallow fondants and like to use chocolate clay to do the detail work. They usually turn out really well.
When it comes to cooking I can usually get decent results with most things and really like to start with something basic and elaborate on it. There is however one basic food item that eludes me. Rice. I cannot for the life of me make rice. It either ends up burnt or crunchy and I have no idea how to fix this. Rice in a box is fine but to actually make white rice, yeah, that is quite a gamble. Even today, I came home measured 3/4 cup of rice, 2 cups of water and covered it on med to boil for 20 minutes later. Fifteen minutes later I started to smell something, sure enough it was burnt. I have no idea how I managed to do this. somehow I only burnt half the pan! (to answer the obvious question- yes it was over the heat evenly) on one half of the pan it was black on the bottom and the top layer of rice was very brown around the edge and the other half of the pan looked very wet still. How is this possible? As we speak I'm working on my second attempt. so far so god but I'm only 10 minutes in. The problem with my inability to make rice is that it is a staple in quite a few food items so I really need to overcome this.
Perhaps I should be watching this more closely, they say a watched pot never boils, does that mean it also never burns?
Any tricks to making rice?
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