The first few days focus on preparing rice, a multistep process including rinsing, soaking, cooking and steaming that takes 70 minutes.
She'd prepared rice for several meals.
Because it has already been cooked, all that is necessary to prepare instant rice is to simply re-hydrate it with hot water.
The bathing completed and back in my kitchen, I set about preparing rice.
Base informed me that the camp was safe, but l was not to prepare rice since the smoke from the fire would be detected.
Many people are reluctant to prepare brown rice because it takes 45 minutes to cook, but there are two simple solutions.
Water isn't the only cooking medium you can use to prepare rice.
The huge kitchens (one has a chapati machine) prepare dhal, rice and chapatis for up to 40,000 pilgrims a day.
Meanwhile she had prepared rice to make sushi (a term that refers to rice, not fish).
"In the kitchen when we are right beside each other preparing the fish and rice, he puts me to shame," he said.