My great invention
Mar. 13th, 2025 01:51 pmI like to eat precooked things from cans and jars. I think it is because I'm so often freaked out or stressed out or exhausted that I just want to put my food in my bowl and be done with it. I've added more grains to my meals, but since I mainly eat something like soup, I can usually just dump them in with the rest of the soup. However, I eat some amaranth after dinner (since I don't eat other grains with dinner and want to make sure I have enough carbs to get me through the night), and I don't care for putting it into a pot to cook it every night. especially since it is to make about half a cup of cooked food. A while back, I had started putting raw chicken into jars and then putting them in water in the multivarka (like a fancy rice cooker) and then cooking them for half an hour or so, as if I was canning them. Except, of course, you can't can meat that way, although you can cook the meat that way and then put the jars into the freezer or fridge and have cooked meat all ready in a jar for when you need it with minimal washing of pans. It occurred to me that I could cook the amaranth the same way, and it works! I put the grain and appropriate amount of water into jars, put the jars into the multivarka (although a pot on the stove would work just as well), and cook it for half an hour. The amaranth is cooked, and I just put it into the fridge to take out when desired. (Obviously, it will eventually rot, so I don't leave it in the fridge indefinitely.) I'm so pleased with it!