International Food

I don’t know what feat of mathematics had me convinced that I needed 7 kilos of dry rice to make 200 100mL samples. Let me try a reenactment:

1 cup of dry rice makes 4 cups (1000mL) of cooked rice, so each cup of dry rice should feed 10 people 100mL samples. 200 people divided by the 10/cup of dry rice means I need 20 cups of dry rice or just under 7 kilos (3 cups to a kilo).

Now somebody please tell me where I went so horribly wrong that when I got home last night I had 5 pots of rice to contend with...

I had got off work later than I intended due to an unexpected work load 15min before I had planned to leave...unfortunate. So when I got home I had to run around borrowing pots and elements from people as I only had 1 of the former and 2 of the latter. I scrambled together 5 pots and my cooking partner had another two. The elements I borrowed, however, were scattered all around the building requiring me to run up and down floors checking on 5 different pots of rice in various rooms to prevent burning and boiling over, and occasionally running to the other building to check on how my cooking partner was doing. It got to the point where my fellow Canadian said to pick two more pots that were almost done and stop cooking the rest of them. This resulted in my apartment being covered in 5 pots of half cooked rice. To my extreme pleasure by the time I got home at 10, they had finished cooking them selves and I didn’t have to worry about throwing out 5 pots of half cooked rice!

My fellow Canadian had about as relaxing an evening as I did in his attempt to obtain and cook the fish. We decided that fresh fish was a necessity, so he had to drive out to get it, then de-scale, gut, and de-bone it. All of which is easier said than done if all you have is a little paring knife.

I would say we could’ve benefited from a little more planning, but the food was made and enjoyed. Now I just have to deal with all this rice...ideas?