Sunday, October 7, 2007

Rice and Mushroom Mutter

So my officemate, a miracle-maker in his own right, recently brought in a microwave rice cooker. I didn't know such things existed, but they do, and they rule! In under twenty minutes, one can cook rice. In an office. Oh, it's a beautiful thing.

The rice might be hard to get exactly right, but it's the perfect side dish to very nearly everything, and thus, it doesn't have to be a masterpiece. Countless times I've been eating Indian food, and one of my Indian colleagues walks up and says that in India, they don't just eat Punjabi Chhole by itself. And now, neither do I!

So tonight saw a relatively low-protein, but high deliciousness meal consisting of rice and mushroom mutter (curried mushrooms and peas), purchased at my local Indian store, and presented in a very, very sketchy can. Imported from Punjab, it tastes authentic, in that "this is delicious, but I think I might die" sort of way. Anyway, with a rice cooker that works in the microwave, I think I might be able to start cooking lentils, garbanzos, and other delicious things that normally come in cans.

As for why I haven't been posting on here, it's related to me eating the same thing over and over again. Can of vegetables, ramen, can of tuna. Although I did put some awesome Berbere in the last batch of ramen, throwing away the "mushroom chicken" flavoring. Actually, in a true microwave miracle, I microwaved the flavor packet along with the ramen (whoops!) but nothing awful happened. Thank you, office-kitchen gods.