Hi Everyone,
I have found over the years that many people are shy to ask certain questions about food and cooking that they think are too obvious or silly. I have decided to start this series, What’s Cooking. From time to time, I’ll do a What’s Cooking section to answer some of the questions you have, but are too shy to ask.
For us, cooking rice is a daily ritual, and while there are different ways to cook up the grains, the most frequent method we employ is boiling. The boiling of rice is sometimes referred to as the pasta method and that’s because the approach is similar – a large pot of water is brought to a boil, the ingredient added and cooked to the desired texture.
The first meal I ever cooked (while still in single digit-age) was pork curry with boiled rice. Funny enough, the pork curry was the easier of the two dishes to cook; it was the boiling of the rice that had my siblings and me playing what I referred to as the counting game. The difficulty lay in determining when the rice was finished cooking. Once the rice was washed and added to the pot of boiling water where it shortly came to a tumbling roll Pat, Eon and I sat on the counter, stood on a chair and gazed into the pot. Being the eldest, I took charge and instructed that we would each (separately) count from one to a hundred, at which time, I would test the rice to see if it was done cooking. I think we totalled a thousand in our count but the rice was still not done cooking. Uncertainty then set it, counting was