cooking rice

How do you cook rice? First you pour some rice into the pot and you wash the rice. I remember how you would take forever to wash each grain of rice. "The water needs to drain clear," you said. Scrub Scrub. Rice against palms. Palms against rice. How do you cook rice? You add water to the clean rice- from the top of the rice to the first line of your index finger. "But my hands are bigger than yours." Soggy rice for dinner? Just remember the 1:2 ratio. You place the pot onto the the stove and wait for the water to boil and cover the pot. "The steam cooks the rice." When is the rice ready? "If you can smell burnt rice, you made rice." You open the lid and smile. We made rice.