Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[ragdollcatlady]

Oh and that is a picture of her dog, on the wall below the stairs.

 

[babsbag]

Love the house, very classy and you are doing a great job, what a fun project.

Manny finally ate his alfalfa and looked forward to some more when I fed tonight. He isn't drinking much water which has me concerned. Has he had even had molasses in his water? Trying to tempt him. He was pretty traumatized when he got here...long ride, new people, new barn, dogs, etc. DH helped me get him out of the truck and it was a good thing he did too as Manny made a run for it and DH caught him mid-leap. Good thing he is small. He is such a pretty boy, I love his eyes.

 

[Latestarter]

I apologize for suggesting a mechanical (even computer controlled) device. They are supposedly pretty much "foolproof"... But, regardless of that, I have no idea what I was thinking at the time of proposing such a thing. Hope you'll forgive and forget Doll house is looking really great!

 

[misfitmorgan]

If you own a microwave....you can make perfect rice. I make microwave rice when i am out of pans/burners and need rice for whatever i'm making.

White rice - 2:1 water:rice, put in a microwave safe dish and cook 10 minutes. Stir and let stand 4 minutes.

Jasmie Rice - 1.5:1 water:rice....cooking as as above.

Makes perfect rice every time and it only takes 14 minutes. If you have a less powerful microwave you may need to adjust to 12-14 minutes of "cooking" time.

That house is coming along well!

 

[Bruce]

Things tend to boil over in our microwave.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Things tend to boil over in our microwave.

Bigger bowl? or clean the microwave

Honestly it does it sometimes in ours too if i try to use a bowl thats to small but i just clean the microwave. I only have one pot I can cook rice in. 1 stock pot, 1 dutch oven, 1 sauce pot (6 cups), 1 enamelware pot(holds like 3 cups).

 

[ragdollcatlady]

I sold 2 nigi babies today! yeah! I have a feeling I just helped some brand new goat owners well along on the road to addiction. And I have an appointment for another visitor tomorrow and possibly one more lead as well.

I got my vacuum to work better by cleaning out the hose.... hopefully that is it!

 

[greybeard]

You know that you can purchase "computerized" rice cookers that do all the "hard stuff" for you at the push of a button, and produce near perfect rice each and every time, right? They aren't all that expensive either and can even be used for other things from what I've heard. I've never had an issue cooking rice the old fashioned way but my last wife bought one for her son to use while an apt dweller in college. According to him it was pretty spiffy and was used quite frequently...

I've used them for,,,,,,,,well, forever. Or at least ever since I got out of the military in the late 70s.
Not anything computerized...just the single button you push down to the 'cook' position. One of mine is probably 20 years old, the other only 10 years old and the smallest one just a few years old. Each one, perfect rice every time.
They're pretty much bulletproof. 4 1/2 million Cajuns can't be wrong. Ask anyone in S. Louisiana and they'll all tell you Hitachi makes the best ones.
I probably use one of ours several times per month.sometimes more than that. It has other uses besides cooking rice. They're automatic once you add rice, water, plug it in, and push one button down.

 

[Bruce]

We do have a Cuisinart rice cooker that works just as you described. I hauled it out the last time I made Jasmin rice. Still a bit sticky but at least I didn't have to deal with watching the rice. Still turned it off after the lever popped into "warming" mode so it wouldn't keep cooking.

 

[Bruce]

I have a feeling I just helped some brand new goat owners well along on the road to addiction.

Enabler!!