Good times, good friends, good rice!

Had a really nice weekend. Not too busy, not too lazy. Saturday afternoon was spent scrapbooking at a friends house. She wanted to get the new Slice machine so we took off for Hobby Lobby before getting started. It's a really great die cutting machine, I can't wait to get one for myself. Sorry CTMH but I'm so over with stamping right now. ("We are SOOO OVER!!" "Hmph, hehhhhhhh, FINE BY ME!!!" - Sorry had a Friends moment there)
Most exciting part was having AM over for dinner Saturday night! Yay! Clint cooked a pork loin, so great I can't even put it into words...And I decided I needed to upgrade the rice that I had planned on. Don't get me wrong, I love white rice. LOVE LOVE LOVE white rice. Little butter, little salt- I'm in heaven. Ooh or with soy sauce...mmmm. But with having the yummy pork loin and having AM over, I wanted something fun. Aka-different. Well...kinda gets hard when it's the few days before grocery shopping day. But I had broth! Yay for broth! After conferring with my sister in law who is an AMAZING cook. I used the broth for half of the water I would normally use. YUM! It was really tasty. And we had such a great evening with AM. After dinner we sat around the table, drinkin and talkin. Before we knew it she and I had finished off a 12 pack and it was 10:30. (Must of been all that pork, or Clint hid some but I wasn't feelin it.) I miss her so much at work and it was nice to be with her again.
So anyway- last night we had pork leftovers and I wanted rice again. Well Saturdays rice was good, just a hint of the chicken broth flavoring but I wanted to see if it would be even tastier with full broth. Okay, so I have a rice cooker. Yeah yeah, but it's awesome. This way I can put it all in there and then move on to the other foods I'm cooking. Or dessert, yeah I've made dessert while dinner is cooking. :) That's how I roll. So I put in the broth, the rice and move on. 20 minutes later I hear the click of the rice cooker and can't wait to dig in! Well? Not as great as I hoped for. It was much drier this time. And I don't really think it tasted more brothy. The kid liked it, but Clint and I left most of our portions on our plate to feed the trashcan. Oh well, live and learn- at least I got to try it out.

Until I roll again-

Alicia

I <3 CC