BUTTER RICE #recipe @vmburns

VMBURNS:  The first time I made Butter Rice, I didn't have a yellow onion. The only onion I had was a red onion. An onion is an onion, right? Well, kind of. I knew the red onion would have a bit more of a bite to it than the yellow onion. No problem. I used a little less of the red. The taste was fine. The issue came in the color. The red onions looked purple against the white rice, which was a little weird. However, I couldn't really taste the onions. The second time I made this, I used yellow onion, but didn't have 3 cups of chicken broth. So, I substituted water. Again, the rice tasted fine. What's my point? My point is this recipe is flexible. There are only a small number of ingredients and it's pretty hard to mess this up.

• BUTTER RICE

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INGREDIENTS

• 1/3 Cup Butter
• 1/2 Medium Onion, finely diced
• 1 1/2 Cups Rice
• 3 Cups Chicken broth
• 2 Bay leaves

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Melt butter over medium heat in large saucepan. Add in onion and sauté for 5-6 minutes. Stir in rice and coat in the butter.
   
   
   
2. Pour in remaining ingredients. Cover, bring to boil, then reduce heat to low and about 15 minutes.
   
   
   
3. Turn heat off rice, but keep on the burner for 10 minutes to steam. Fluff rice with a fork, remove bay leaves, and serve as desired. 
   
   
   

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• READERS:  Onions? Red? Yellow? Or, no way? Let me know in the comments below. 

MURDER AT FIRST SLICE (ARC)

As Maddy’s wedding day approaches, friends and family descend on the little town of New Bison, Michigan, to celebrate—so much so that Maddy wonders if there might be another happily-ever-after in store for her widowed father and innkeeper Mrs. Law. Unfortunately, she also has to deal with an unhappy couple: feuding cousins Hannah and Dorothy, who haven’t spoken in decades. Maddy can only hope the spectacular wedding cake crafted by her head baker doesn’t wind up as ammunition in a food fight.

But she doesn’t have to wait long for a wedding disaster to strike. When the imperious Dorothy crashes the rehearsal dinner—with several uninvited guests in tow—and starts battering everyone with constant complaints, the drama reaches reality-show levels. And the next day, Dorothy is dead . . . with Hannah standing over the body, bloody rolling pin in hand.

Nobody in town believes Miss Hannah could commit murder. But a detective newly relocated from New York doesn’t know the sweet, memory-challenged Hannah the way the locals do—and the evidence seems open-and-shut as an oven. Now, with her sous-sleuths the Baker Street Irregulars, the bride-to-be is busy digging into Dorothy’s past to catch a killer before she cuts the cake . . .

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