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Hot take: I fed myself for $11.50 all week after my stove died and honestly the microwave rice came out better than my usual pot
My landlord dragged his feet on the repair for 9 days so I lived on canned black beans, eggs, and a 5 lb bag of rice from the H-Mart on Bellaire, and the trick was cooking the rice in the bean liquid instead of water. Day 5 I caught myself legit looking forward to it, which felt wrong. Anyone else got a no-stove meal that turned out too good to give up once the burners came back?
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vera_johnson91mo ago
I heard on a podcast once that cooking rice in bean water is basically how people have been doing it in Latin America and the Caribbean forever, so you accidentally stumbled into a real tradition lol. The starch in the bean liquid coats the rice and gives it this creamy thing that plain water never does, which is why your microwave batch beat the pot. My aunt used to save the liquid from a can of pintos and make rice with it on purpose, not because her stove was broke, just because it tasted better. Nine days is rough though, your landlord owes you more than a repair at this point.
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