In my food culture, rice is the most important component for
all kinds of appetites. Needless to say, there are also plenty of rice
variations on the market. Hence, when it comes to the table, there is
tremendous selection of dishes to go with rice. Also, talking about the rice
family, it will be a big mistake if I don’t mention about sticky and glutinous
rice. They contribute to enrich our breakfast with many ways of cooking and garnishing.
Mentioning about sticky rice, my memories are flooding back about
difficult days on the family farm when we all rushed out of the house in very
early mornings with empty tummies and nothing else, except tiny packages of
sticky rice. Sticky rice also followed me most of morning during my years at
high school. Later on when I started
working, sticky rice was always the best solution for hurry mornings to the
office. To sum up, I can say sticky rice is the most simple, compact and comfortable
food to start a day, especially tough and busy days.
Do I sound like I love sticky rice? Honestly, I didn’t love sticky rice as much as my memory about
it. The reason was simple - it was pretty dry and tedious. It is a perfect
saver for a quick day kickoff, but not a choice for everyday. I don’t remember
exactly the last time I had sticky rice. I would say more than 2 years ago. Back
home, whenever feeling like eating sticky rice, I always bought from small
vendors on the way to school or work. I had never thought about cooking sticky
rice myself. On my mind, it’s too cumbersome to deal with sticky rice in the
kitchen. Moreover, when things were always available and too easy to get, like most
of people, I didn’t bother to do it myself.
Now, it’s different. I’ve been out of the country for more
than 2 years. Some simple food that I never missed or thought about before,
they’ve been touring back in my mind times to times. Sticky rice is one of
them. I always thought that I might just be able to eat sticky rice again if
and only if I backed home to visit my family. Maybe my thought would never
change if there was not a day, a day I found ways to cook sticky rice by microwave,
the day that many ideas of sticky rice dishes blossoming in my mind. If you are
a great cook, you can tell right away – how dare you compare sticky rice made
by microwave with the traditional way? The answer is you’re right. I’m not
going to put those two methods on scale. Just imagine me as being drowned and
found a life buoy.
I
love black sticky rice the most, thus of course it will be my first try too. I
know if I don’t post an entry of cooking recipe now, there will be no entry
later. The first time is always the one uplifting me the most. So, let’s go
through the simple recipe and I hope you can do it yourself one day (if you've never done before).
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| (black sticky rice dish from black glutinous rice) |
