Anyone do anything interesting with a rice cooker?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:30 pm
I travel a fair bit around the UK as some of you know, almost always staying in budget hotels.
When we travel we do enjoy finding interesting food locally but we are always on a fairly tight budget and sometimes you are limited for options. Also after a few days rich restaurant food is just not what you want especially in the evening if you have had a big lunch which we often do.
So quite often we will pick up things and eat in the hotel room. It's quite nice to relax with a few beers or glass of wine and not have to venture outside, especially in the winter months. We've been doing this for years now but recently we have started to get a bit bored with the kind of things you are limited to when eating in a hotel room. So we are looking at easy ways to do a little bit of hotel room cooking.
At the moment what seems to be the best option for something safe, easy and compact is a rice cooker. We have taken it away and used it to cook rice of course, but we are looking to expand what we cook in it.
We are experimenting at home, last week I made a lovely meal of rice with diced vegetables and while it was cooking I used a steamer insert to cook a couple of pieces of salmon. It was delicious and very easy.
I have also successfully reheated one of those packets of flavoured microwave rice in it as well as warmed up some soup. I have heard you can cook pasta in them but have not tried this yet, also going to try steaming some chicken with rice.
Would love to hear any other ideas people have. I have read some recipes online and seen a few youtube videos but nothing beats real world experiences and conversation.
When we travel we do enjoy finding interesting food locally but we are always on a fairly tight budget and sometimes you are limited for options. Also after a few days rich restaurant food is just not what you want especially in the evening if you have had a big lunch which we often do.
So quite often we will pick up things and eat in the hotel room. It's quite nice to relax with a few beers or glass of wine and not have to venture outside, especially in the winter months. We've been doing this for years now but recently we have started to get a bit bored with the kind of things you are limited to when eating in a hotel room. So we are looking at easy ways to do a little bit of hotel room cooking.
At the moment what seems to be the best option for something safe, easy and compact is a rice cooker. We have taken it away and used it to cook rice of course, but we are looking to expand what we cook in it.
We are experimenting at home, last week I made a lovely meal of rice with diced vegetables and while it was cooking I used a steamer insert to cook a couple of pieces of salmon. It was delicious and very easy.
I have also successfully reheated one of those packets of flavoured microwave rice in it as well as warmed up some soup. I have heard you can cook pasta in them but have not tried this yet, also going to try steaming some chicken with rice.
Would love to hear any other ideas people have. I have read some recipes online and seen a few youtube videos but nothing beats real world experiences and conversation.