I really need not to cook crockpot meals while I'm actually at home. The smell is killing me.

I've learned not to start them before I go to bed, 'cause waking up to smell of them in the morning is nasty no matter how much it's something I like. It's not breakfast food, I don't want to smell it in the morning.

I haven't met the food food that's not breakfast food. I will eat stew or chocolate cake for breakfast, if it's around and tasty. I just hate the idea of food smelling that I'm not allowed to eat. Overnight stuff I'm usually going to pack a helping of for lunch, so it's not so bad.

This, this won't be done for another three or four hours.

At which point I need to try and make rice again. That should be easy, no? But I cannot consistently succeed with white rice. I don't know what's wrong with me. I can make souffles and bread and fancy sauces, but I can't time a pot of rice to finish up with the rest of the meal.

Wow...just as well no one answered my question about Abilify. Stuff costs $403.30/month. That ain't happening. And yes, that is "after" insurance (I have a deductible I have to meet first.

Make rice pudding. Easy peasy and forgiving of timing errors. on the other hand LOTs of stirring.

What kind of rice, ita? How do you cook it? I suck at cooking all the things, but I can make rice.

I haven't met the food food that's not breakfast food.

Me too!!

The Splendid Table weekly email I get just had a thing about cooking rice like pasta that supposedly is a much more forgiving way of making rice than the normal way.

I can forward if anybody wants it.

MY MOTHER IS NOT A ZOMBIE!

Which is just what a zombie would SAY!!!!

Brain picker. Oh, I'm sorry, you're a UNION zombie, you'll only pick LIVING brains. No dead brains for you, oh no. You want vacations and health care and a pension and only-living-brains to pick.

Why do you hate America?

Oh, wait, I KNOW, because you're a Commie Zombie.

Wow...just as well no one answered my question about Abilify. Stuff costs $403.30/month. That ain't happening. And yes, that is "after" insurance (I have a deductible I have to meet first.

Have you checked Costco? My crappily-insured Mother finds them to be almost always the cheapest.

That should be easy, no? But I cannot consistently succeed with white rice.

I was having this problem for a while, but then I decided to go back to the cookbook, and discovered that the Asian method for rice cooking was different than the European method. So, operating on the presumption that Asia kicks Europe's ass in that particular department I switched to the Asian way and lo and behold, perfect rice every time.

I put 3/4 of a cup of rice in a 2 cup measuring cup.

Fill the rest with water. (So 1 1/4 cups of water.)

Let it soak.

Put it all in a saucepan, salt the water, and cover with a lid (the glass top lid actually works best because it helps to see what's going on).

Turn it on high until it starts to boil.

At that point, turn it to low, and adjust the lid so that it's allowing steam out. I guess it's only covering 4/5ths of the saucepan at that point? Anyway, you get the idea.

You let it cook until you get "pitting" in the rice. Little holes. Stir it, put on the lid, turn off the heat. A few more minutes and it's done.

Or, you know, get a rice steamer.