Brown Rice

Brown rice is acquired taste. It took me years to get over missing white rice. Remember I am Tamilian - white rice is a staple and comfort food (specially when it comes seasoned with spices and with sour yoghurt, and lime pickle) . Polished fiberless white evil white rice! I really didn't want any kid of mine to have to deal with white rice withdrawal, or grow to love white rice too much. So. He started off with brown rice. To him, hopefully, this healthy stuff will be comfort food.

We get this wonderfully softenable brown rice (Sugam brand) from MGM foods http://www.mgmindianfoods.com/. It's not organic, but other brown rice brands are inedible in comparison to this one.

The owner of MGM foods, Mr.Matthews, is a sweetheart - albeit his Video-Nazi-ness. He takes one look at you to determine if you're the kind that will return movies late. If you are, he'll say "No video today" in his sweet Malayalee accent. He said "tomorrow it will come" to us for the longest time, until he was sure he could trust us. We told him, "Just charge us a fine if we return it late no?" And he was thrilled. It seems (he lamented) desis argue with him about fines all the time. My husband came up with the title of Video-Nazi for him. Quite perfect, like the Soup-Nazi of Sienfeld fame - quirky to the point of becoming a legend.

Back to brown rice, it's cooked like this. Rice cooker. 1 cup brown rice with 2 cups water. Turn it on. It's ready and soft and fluffy in 45 minutes. I can't see how anyone would not switch to this. Alright, I can, but really it's an easy switch.