The Versatile Rice Cooker (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)

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Summary: Cordon Bleu on a beggar's budget
Review: Lured by that damn'd hypnotic Gold Box into snapping up a natty rice cooker, it dawned on me that I didn't actually know what goes with rice, or how to cook it. Back to Amazon's ace 'search' function and voilà! This is the book I needed - and so might you.

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Summary: it works...
Review: The rice cooker book.
It's all about the "suihanki", as they call it in Japan. It is the focal point of any Japanese kitchen, and at any given moment, is full to the brim with boring white rice. They eat it for every meal, breakfast through to dinner and even as a late night 'snack'.
And using a rice cooker is easy. All you do is add rice and water and push a button.
Now, finally someone actually went into the kitchen and came up with some rather interesting, if not tasty recipes using the convenience of the rice cooker (it saves on cleanup tremendously) to create delicious meals.
Enough with the boring white rice, I say.
What's more, this cookbook provides recipes that have nothing to do with rice. It is the "other" steamer/oven-like-appliance that you never knew you had. Did you know you could use it to cook desserts, or even appetizers? It has vegetarian and meat-atarian meal ideas alike.
I found this book helpful because I have a small kitchen and I hate doing the dishes. In this book I found a few recipes I could make, that would make me appear to be a gourmet, a spectacular chef, without making a mess or putting much effort into the cooking process.