Dinnertime: rice (long-grain, and pilaf-style)

I don't know why I felt like eating rice today, but I did, and I didn't want to just eat steamed rice. I wanted to cook it in a frypan, just like when you make paella or rice-a-roni.

So I headed over to the supermarket and picked up a 1kg bag of rice for about 0,67 EUR or about $1. It's not cheap, but after I found out after cooking it how easy it was to make (and that it might actually make a good thing to take for lunch) I expect to buy it more often in the future. (Incidentally, the short-grain Japanese-style rice that I buy in Chinatown is about 1,20 EUR a kilogram, so the long-grain stuff is cheaper.)

Preparation:

1) Pan-fry 100g bacon (lardons) and one minced onion. Once cooked, set aside.

2) Saute raw rice kernels in fry pan using butter or olive oil until they turn clear. Once they turn translucent, add water (or chicken broth if you want to give the rice more flavor.) -- I used one-cup of short-grain rice to two-cups of water.

3) Cover and let it cook for about 15 minutes over low heat.

You now have a nice side dish! My main dish was leftover homemade vegetable soup, but I wanted to eat rice, so I made it and saved half for tomorrow. I still have another pack of kebab meat, maybe that will be for tomorrow's lunch?