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chhotiiThis concept is a work in progress, but here’s the current stage in its evolution (i.e. how I will try to do it next time, incorporating lessons from this year).
Note: Much in the spirit of Yale’s rules on drinking in the dorms, here are the Arisia hotel’s rules on cooking in the rooms:
1. No cooking in the rooms.
2. If you cook in the rooms, clean up thoroughly and carefully afterwards.
What you will need to bring:
Equipment:
* Small rice cooker: Zorushi sells a tiny little 3-cup capacity rice cooker, which is just the right size. Don’t forget the custom measuring cup that comes with it. (Do not bring the serving paddle; too hard to clean by hand.)
* Plastic utensils for stirring, serving, and eating
* Paper bowls
* Paper towels
* Can opener
* Small cutting board or paper plate
* Sharp knife (pocket knife is probably fine)
* Microwave-safe storage container
* 3 oz. travel bottle containing dish soap
Food:
* White sushi rice, uncooked: not the whole bag, just a couple of cups
* Can of chicken or tuna (optional)
* Small can of chick peas
* Baby carrots
* Curry powder (optional)
* Cheese sticks or cheese slices
* Jar of salsa
* 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (optional)
1. Before starting, check the party boards, Facebook, your friends, etc., to make sure there’s no pizza party going on. Otherwise the kids will all whine for the pizza and you will be stuck with tons of leftover casserole.
2. Cut 6 or 8 baby carrots into small pieces. Open and drain chick peas and chicken or tuna.
3. Put water in rice cooker up to the 1 (white rice) line. Add 1 measuring cup dry rice, a small dash of curry powder, carrots, and mushrooms. Put 1 cup chick peas and all the meat on top.
4. Push “menu” button until arrow points to “white” and then “COOK”.
5. People-watch in the lobby for about 40 to 60 minutes, until the rice cooker sings its “I’m done” song.
6. Cut up 2 or 3 cheese sticks or slices (or more or less) into small pieces and stir into casserole.
7. After serving individual portions, anyone who finds the casserole to be too bland can add and mix in some salsa.
8. Store leftovers in hotel room mini-fridge, to be re-heated in the microwave oven in the con suite later. Clean-up: Scrape out inside of rice cooker very well before washing, as the hotel bathroom sink is not designed like a kitchen sink, and can clog up with even tiny bits of food. Pack the rice cooker and other evidence of cooking back into the suitcase before the maids next come in.
Assuming everyone is also mooching additional food from the Con Suite, serves 4 to 6.
Note: Much in the spirit of Yale’s rules on drinking in the dorms, here are the Arisia hotel’s rules on cooking in the rooms:
1. No cooking in the rooms.
2. If you cook in the rooms, clean up thoroughly and carefully afterwards.
What you will need to bring:
Equipment:
* Small rice cooker: Zorushi sells a tiny little 3-cup capacity rice cooker, which is just the right size. Don’t forget the custom measuring cup that comes with it. (Do not bring the serving paddle; too hard to clean by hand.)
* Plastic utensils for stirring, serving, and eating
* Paper bowls
* Paper towels
* Can opener
* Small cutting board or paper plate
* Sharp knife (pocket knife is probably fine)
* Microwave-safe storage container
* 3 oz. travel bottle containing dish soap
Food:
* White sushi rice, uncooked: not the whole bag, just a couple of cups
* Can of chicken or tuna (optional)
* Small can of chick peas
* Baby carrots
* Curry powder (optional)
* Cheese sticks or cheese slices
* Jar of salsa
* 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (optional)
1. Before starting, check the party boards, Facebook, your friends, etc., to make sure there’s no pizza party going on. Otherwise the kids will all whine for the pizza and you will be stuck with tons of leftover casserole.
2. Cut 6 or 8 baby carrots into small pieces. Open and drain chick peas and chicken or tuna.
3. Put water in rice cooker up to the 1 (white rice) line. Add 1 measuring cup dry rice, a small dash of curry powder, carrots, and mushrooms. Put 1 cup chick peas and all the meat on top.
4. Push “menu” button until arrow points to “white” and then “COOK”.
5. People-watch in the lobby for about 40 to 60 minutes, until the rice cooker sings its “I’m done” song.
6. Cut up 2 or 3 cheese sticks or slices (or more or less) into small pieces and stir into casserole.
7. After serving individual portions, anyone who finds the casserole to be too bland can add and mix in some salsa.
8. Store leftovers in hotel room mini-fridge, to be re-heated in the microwave oven in the con suite later. Clean-up: Scrape out inside of rice cooker very well before washing, as the hotel bathroom sink is not designed like a kitchen sink, and can clog up with even tiny bits of food. Pack the rice cooker and other evidence of cooking back into the suitcase before the maids next come in.
Assuming everyone is also mooching additional food from the Con Suite, serves 4 to 6.
