Cleaning and rice

Well, yesterday, along with all the cooking, I finished unpacking from my trip, did some laundry, swept the floor, dusted my desk, and did all my dishes save the one pan I used to brown up some lightly seasoned ground beef for freezing. I also finished a book and read a really fascinating article, and took down summaries of them for easy access later. Oh, and I dealt with a suitcase and box full of assorted junk that was left over from my last move, and put my pills for the week in my counter, and found an important document I was looking for, and contacted the post office to notify them that my mail seems not to be coming. (Whew!) This morning, so far, I've taken out the garbage, fixed my calendar, and swept the floor again. My apartment is pretty tidy now, although I still have some dusting to do.

Today's cooking adventure is rice in the new rice cooker! Gramma and Papa bought me a rice cooker to replace the one from my mom that I accidentally left at my old landlady's house, and that I didn't want to get back because she freaks me out. So I opened it, washed everything as I was supposed to, and started some white rice with chicken broth, pepper, garlic, and half a jalapeño pepper. I'm waiting for that. I think it'll be nice. It smells good, anyway. I plan on draining a can of black beans and mixing that in, then adding some sharp cheddar and putting it in a burrito. The original plan was to make a stuffed bell pepper, but since all the instructions for that want me to use a glass baking dish, I decided to just roast up this bell pepper (later today!) and work on the stuffed ones later once I have money and can buy myself a nice dish to use.

I'll tell you how it goes!
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Oh. My. God. The rice is perfect. I just remembered I'd left out that I also added a splash of olive oil - which I think really improves the taste and texture.  I had a rice, bean, and cheese burrito, and froze the rest in tiny ziploc bags smushed flat so that they would freeze quickly (according to the internet, there is some danger of Bacillus cereus in reheating leftover rice, but it is ameliorated by rapid cooling).