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Do you know that you can cook porridge without boiling it for 30 minutes (or even longer) continuously?  Especially when you use a small pot, not to mention the overflow..

Here is how....

Procedure:

1. Cook rice with enough water until it boils.  Do not open the lid, turn off the heat.
2. 1 hour later, it will become 'Teo Chew' moi.  If you want it very mushy, heat up the stove again, wait till it boils.  Turn off the heat.
3. Wait for another hour before serving.

I don't have a magic porridge pot, but I do have a magic rice cooker :-)

Before I proceed further, I have to clarify that I am not the sales representative of this product.  And, I earn nothing for publishing it in my blog.

Now, let me introduce you to my Magic Rice Cooker.

• Save time - You can cook rice/ porridge/red bean soup/ black glutinous rice/ gandum/.... using this cooker.  It takes very short time to cook.  Can you believe that the cooking time for black glutinous rice is only 20min?
• Save gas - With the above fact, you will definitely save gas.
• Have hot food at any time anywhere - It will keep warm for hours.  It is especially useful when you want to have some hot rice for a picnic.

1. Wash rice and add water as usual. 
2. Heat up the inner pot on the stove using high heat until it boils( It takes me about 7 min).
3. Turn down to low heat until the rice is 'dry'(It takes me about 12 min).
4. Keep the inner pot in the magic rice cooker. 
5. It is ready to be served after 1 hr.  If the lid is not open, it can keep warm for about 8 hours if the weather is not so cold.

1. In the morning, wash glutinous rice and red bean and add water as usual.
2. Heat up the inner pot on the stove using high heat until it boils( It takes me about 14 min).
3. Keep the inner pot in the magic rice cooker.  Leave it for >1 hour. 
4. Heat up the inner pot on stove, add sugar and coconut milk, turn off the heat after it start to boil(It takes me about 6 min).
5. Keep the inner pot back to the magic rice cooker.
6. The sweet soft porridge will be ready to be served after 1 hour.

1. Wash rice and add water as usual.
2. Heat up the inner pot on the stove using high heat until it boils( It takes me about 12 min).
3. Keep the inner pot in the magic rice cooker.  Leave it for > 1 hour. White rice porridge is ready.

Do you use a lot of ginger in your cooking?  I don't.  Just a knob or two in a week or sometimes in months.  So, there were always left over ginger which ended up in my compost bin. It is too wasteful.

Not after I found this idea from internet.  The frozen ginger cube.

Firstly, peel all the ginger skin.  Clean and dry them.  Grind/slice/shred all of them.
Pop them all into ice-cube tray as below.