Brown Rice and Mushroom Pilaf
With celiac came lots of rice dishes. In fact, in the beginning, I remember living on rice. I am sure that is not true but it felt that way. You need to understand, I did not like rice, not in any shape or form. Rice was icky. It might have been the way, I cooked it. After a short while, I knew I had to master the cooking of rice. I was up to the challenge, I hoped. I started experimenting with brown rice and came up with quite a few really good recipes. Rice goes with everything. That was my hint to add anything. Onions, carrots, apples, nuts, zucchini.......anything. Sauces were as versatile as the add-ons. The one rice, I had made for years was fried rice. It was terrible but it was my best rice dish. This was the time to learn how to make a good fried rice and I did. I was like a child, proud, taking his/her first step. Pilaf was new to me. It sounded so exotic. How foolish, I was. ...