Sep. 2, 2008 - Japanese Cooking or Yeah!! I Got a Rice Cooker :)
I got a rice cooker over Labor Day weekend. I have never felt giddy over and appliance before. Strange I know. You see we have many beautiful (and thin) ladies of Oriental heritage working or living here on our military post. I have avoided making some of their scrumptious recipes because I really dislike making rice and keeping it from over cooking or getting rock hard. I even have 50 lbs of Japanese Nishiki rice in my pantry. Well,they happen to sell the cadilac of rice cookers at our Px.
I read this great book over the weekend:
I really liked this book. It struck me as a very, very practical book. It contains real recipes for real people and not really fancy-shmancy ones. I am going to the Asian Market today here in town to get some of the more unusual ingredients, but fortunately our Commisary has most things.
My oldest son is relatively obsessed with Japanese anything so this is right up his alley. He even did his own unit study on Japan, without any input from me.
So I LOVE my rice cooker and my sinuses like it too. I don't do well with a lot of wheat (allergies), but they like rice just fine. 
