Journey to the End of the Rainbow: Week 3 and DIY crafts

Cooking highs, cooking lows.

To mark our 3rd week unofficially away from home (we go home every weekends), my roommates and I tried to cook for ourselves. It essentially served our curiosity with rice cooker cuisine and, of course, our angry tummies during times when we don’t want to go outside for meals.

Note: rice cooker cuisine – the amazingly cool things that can actually and be decently cooked using a rice cooker, aside from rice. 😄

Rice cooker is the only cooking appliance allowed to be used inside the dorm, so we better maximize our resources, right?

• Pancakes: definitely a no-no

One of my roommates love pancakes. Upon reading in an article that pancakes can be actually cooked using a rice cooker, she quickly jumped in.

We were very excited with the outcome of our rice cooker-baked cakes. Though to compare, my roommate was looking way farther forward, since she saw how sumptuous it was supposed to look like.

She couldn’t feel any more betrayed a few minutes after pitching in our mixture. The cake just couldn’t cook through. To be fair to the rice cooker though, the bottom part did cook and was the only part that we felt was edible.

So note, for your pancakes, stick to your pans. There’s a reason why they are called pancakes.

• Fried Rice: spot on, go for it

What made our fried rice a success was that we had all our mixed-ins precooked. We had bacon, ham, egg, spinach, salt garlic, paprika and

pepper.

Pepper?

Pepper! I had never had pepper on my fried rice either (in case you were as surprised as I was the first time I heard my roommate tell me she’ll place pepper on the rice)! I have also never had paprika on my rice, but I guess I was less surprised with it.

Anyway, rice and pepper aren’t that odd of a combination after all. I was worried the rice would have this peppery texture, but it didn’t. (I was never bothered about garlic pepper rice before because it had meat toppings.)

Because of the success of our fried rice, we were able to conclude that there’s a special relationship between the rice and rice cooker. ;)

Though technically, the rice cooker is just supposed to steam soft rice, our fried rice proved that the love the rice cooker has for rice transcends physical change.

Clap, clap rice cooker!

PS. As for our study-progress. Well, we dealt with great realizations this week.

And we’ll make it happen.

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