It's been a long week.

I was at an AmeriCorps conference all week. Pretty burnt out with work now! I had a good time meeting some great people and learning some interesting information...

It's so snowy out :( ... well, it was three hours ago when I was last outside! My car doesn't do great in the snow (got stuck in my parking lot this morning in about .25 inches of snow), so I'm making dinner with what I have in the house... which turns out not be much! I even cleaned out my cupboard and 'fridge (I always feel good after I pitch stuff!).

I decided on rice. I loooooove rice. (Though, sadly after I started making the rice, I found some pesto I could have made with noodles... maybe tomorrow's lol)

Used a rice cooker. Definitely one of the top ten inventions! I only have brown rice, and for some reason every time I make it, it's still a little hard. So, instead of using a 1:2 ratio, I used a 1:2.5 ratio (uhm, is that right?)

Anyway,
1 cup brown rice
2 1/4 cups veggie broth
1 veggie bullion cube
Some Italian seasoning
3/4 white wine
(Mmmmm I bet some steamed asparagus would be great with this.)
Throw all this into a rice cooker, turn it on, enjoy!

Well, hopefully enjoy... it smells GREAT so far!

Found some broccoli at the last minute and cooked a little bit up.

Ugh, it' looks better than it tastes. I think I put too much wine in it because it's a little sweet. It's not awful; definitely edible! But the rice is still a little bit hard... maybe it's just this kind of rice. Better luck tomorrow.