My mini rice cooker is getting a double workout these days. I finally
got around to trying its timer function and it works great to prepare
morning grains! I just put the grains and water in at night, set the
time I want to eat it and go to sleep. When I awake, I just scoop
them into a bowl, drizzle on some maple syrup and breakfast is done.
Recently I've been having Arrowhead Mills 4 Grain Plus Flax Cereal.
This is a mix of cracked wheat, oats, rye, barley and flax, all
organic. 10% calories from fat per serving with 6 grams of fiber.
I put 1/4 cup of cereal and 3/4 of rice in the cooker and put it on
porridge setting. Because this is the mini model of the rice cooker
(the smallest one I could find with fuzzy logic) the cooker has no
problem cooking just the 1/4 cup of grains for breakfast. Until I
found this little model, preparing rice and grains for just one seemed
more trouble than it was worth (I'm not big on leftover rice and
grains more than a day old).
Once I was in a rush in the morning and forgot to eat the grains. The
rice cooker kept them hot till I came home. Then I sauteed the grains
with vegetables and had it for dinner.
The rice cooker gets a double workout when I know I want more grains
or rice for dinner. Then, after I scoop out breakfast, I immediately
refill it with water and rice and set the timer for dinner time. On
these days I sometimes pick up a bag of pre-cut, pre-washed vegetables
on the way home from work and dinner is super fast, super fresh (I
keep bottles of szechuan sauce and teriaki sauce on hand as well).
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Michelle Dick artemis@xxxxxxxxx East Palo Alto, CA