For many years, I never gave much of a thought to how rice was grown. When I did think about it, I imagined it growing white - the color of the rice usually found on my dinner plate. Oops. Wrong! Rice comes in a lot of colors, but white is surely not one of them. <br /> <br />My children are currently in love with the purple sticky rice we get from Clyde Valley Farm in Morganton, NC. The rice is milled when we order it and it is unpolished so it retains all the natural vitamins and minerals. <br /> <br />I was initially hesitant to buy a rice cooker because I like to have complete control over my rice. Some people have issues with cooking rice. I do not. Ever. Why mess with a good thing? With much hesitation, I gave in and let Santa Mimi buy me a rice cooker this past year - I have used it almost daily! What a fabulous gift this has been. <br /> <br />After I realized that I could combine my old school style of rice cooking - sauteeing the onions, garlic, etc. and toasting the rice grains in the oil before I add the water or broth - I could continue the preliminary steps and just add the rice to the rice cooker at the moment when I would normally add the water to the saucepan. - And_she_cooks <br />

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