For I am decidedly not well, and there is no food in this house that will be okay for a bad stomach. I do have rice and a rice cooker, but no instructions for the latter. I attempted to work it to see if I could, and the answer is a resounding NO. (Why not use a pot, and the stove, you ask? Because I have done that before and every single time I cook rice on my electric stove, it's crunchy. I do not like crunchy rice. No one likes crunchy rice. Now, I really do want a rice cooker and I fear this one is useless. I am going to figure out which one is the best, and ask for it for Christmas. Because I cannot keep living without rice, simply because I can't cook it.)
Why doesn't S help you, you might wonder. Well, he will, wonderful boy that he is, but he's currently finishing up a dogsitting job, and can't leave my dad's house until he feeds the dogs dinner. He can't really do that until five-ish, and then he is still a half hour away. I absolutely cannot go to a store, because I, well, am tethered to the house by, the um, toilet. I can't think of anything I can order in (except white rice, but I'm not sure that the Chinese food place will deliver one order of white rice). Thus, all I've eaten today is two bagels with a teensy bit of peanut butter on top of them. Neither one stuck around very long. We don't have saltines, or chicken soup (not that I would deign to eat it if we did; I hate any sort of chicken broth soup.). No bread for toast, no potatoes (for plain baked potatoes, which is always my favorite fall-back option after rice, in this sort of situation) and well, no clear drink besides water. I just want SOMETHING, you understand.
Also, and this is the bigger problem, at least as far as the far future is concerned, I am supposed to go to another play with my sister in the city tomorrow night. Best case scenario: I'm better, but have to eat toast and potato in a restaurant that my sister wants to eat in. I cannot imagine that my stomach will be well enough to process the Mexican meal we were planning on. Worst case: I'm not better, and I'm so not better that I'm not better by Friday, which is when S and I have to get on a plane and go visit his family. I cannot fly four hours in this state. There is simply NO possible way for S to get me there alive, if this is still around, because the other people on the plane will kill me. I do not think I am exaggerating.
Perhaps there is a middle scenario, where I am not better tomorrow, but well on the way to recovery by Friday, at which point I can go to CA and not eat anything remotely resembling interesting food, in the interest of not having the problem again before the flight home. The whole damn thing sucks. (And yes, I am shallow enough to think, "gee, this might take those five gained pounds off" but I don't really mean it, because I would so much rather be eating normally and not sick. Any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.)
Using a rice cooker is real easy. For every 1 cup of rice, add 1 1/2 cups of water. Then turn it on and A la peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, you have rice that isn't crunchy. Just a word of advice, if you are using brown rice, make sure to add more water. Hope this helps.
Posted by: bindu | November 17, 2005 at 01:41 AM