Ingredients You Should Add to Everything (and make it taste great!)

I know there are a lot of different tastes out there but I’ll tell you these ingredients will work for everyone. I’ve found when you add these five essential seasonings to anything, be it chicken, or steak, or pasta, but what I learned was from making AMAZING rice, the food comes out with a smell, look, flavor anyone would enjoy. I know, you say ‘rice?’ Well my friend from middle school wrote me the other day to say she saw an ad for some kind of rice in a magazine and it reminded her of the best rice she’d ever had, mine.

So how I started wasn’t very out of the ordinary, my grandparents, both italian, would cook all day long, so my cousin and I would go over and make anything that was easy enough for us to make, mainly cookies (that recipe will come soon enough!). One night my mom was coming home late from work so I decided to make a meal for dinner, it included, chicken with a cream cheese and chive spread, rolled in bacon and then baked but the thing I didn’t know how to make was rice. I called my little italian Mommom and asked for her recipe, might have been the best thing I could have done. I don’t think the rice has ever come out the way it did that first night cooking but its damn delicious every time.

Mommom’s Rice

Ingredients

-2 cups long/med white rice
-2 cans chicken broth
-1 small onion, chopped
-3 tablespoons of butter/margarine
-parsley, garlic powder
-salt and pepper

Get a medium sized pot with a lid. Place the 3 tablespoons butter along with the onions in the pot and turn the heat to low and let simmer. When onions are soft but not brown, add rice, stir coating the rice with the onions and butter, let simmer for a couple more minutes. Once the rice is starting to brown a little add both cans of chicken broth. Turn the heat up to high, let boil. When the broth begins to boil turn the heat down slightly, add parsley, garlic powder, salt and pepper, you want a good amount of each so the flavor can explore your taste buds. Believe me, you’ll want them to savor this. Turn the heat back to low put lid on and let cook through, may take about 30 minutes. If need be add more seasonings half way through the cooking. Also you don’t want to over cook the rice, it will come out very mushy and not good, keep an eye on your rice, stirring occasionally. Bon Appetite!

Can anyone guess what those key ingredients my article is speaking of? That’s right. It’s the seasonings. Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder, Parsley, and since I gave the rice recipe these were fresh but also Onion Powder. I’m telling you if you can get the right blend of these 5 seasonings then you can make anything taste great, granted you aren’t my boyfriend’s mother who turns pancakes into stoning material but I highly doubt that. I hope I’ve helped and I sure will be writing more articles, giving away more delicious recipes, for you!