actually i have a second recipe to share today

[doodlemancy]

Easy Tasty Rice For Sad Bitches With Seasonal Depression

i don't have a photo for this one because it is not attractive so i never take pics. but it is tasty and will save you from depression-induced starvation. it's adapted from a recipe for a chicken casserole, but you don't have to prepare any chicken. because uuuuuuuuuuugh too tired. i like it because all the steps happen at once, there aren't many, and you can just walk away until it's ready to eat. it's also dirt cheap to make. it's pretty filling and can serve two people, if you have a housemate who is also suffering the effects of Existing At The Wrong Latitude To Be Getting Enough Vitamin D

Ingredients
• 2 cups of rice
• 1 regular can of condensed cream-of-whatever soup (i usually use cream of mushroom)
• rice cooker (i'm counting it as an ingredient)
• some water
• some spices that sound good to you and are within reach (i usually use garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, paprika, MSG and a lil table salt)

Directions
• put 2 cups of white rice (any ol white rice) into the rice cooker.
• empty the soup can on top of the rice. ssssssssssssshlorp splorp
• take a moment to meditate on the Condensed Soup Blob lying on the rice. the only difference between you and this blob is that you have bones and skin to hold the jiggly parts of you together, probably. she's just like me fr
• add water and stir until the water level looks about right for the amount of rice you put into your rice cooker. (mine has marks on the inside that are numbered, so like, if you used 2 cups of rice, you fill it to the line labeled 2.) when in doubt, slightly too much is better than not enough. you can always just cook off the extra moisture.
• add spices until you feel like there's enough spices. i usually go until i've sort of covered the entire surface of the water in a layer of floaty spices. now stir.
• cook! however you would cook this much regular rice. press that button.
• lie on the floor until it's done
• it'll probably have a few pools of standing liquid when you open the lid. that's fine. just give it a stir.
• live another day until the stupid sun comes back and makes your stupid brain less bad

Notes
• if it comes out crunchy, just add some more water and cook it some more LOL
• seriously one time i just put water in the bowl and microwaved it for a few minutes with a cover over it and it fixed my accidental crunchiness
• works well with store-brand soups that may otherwise be kind of questionable

Comments

[wobblegong]

0. FUCK SAD
1. Thank you for writing this down because your recipe voice is a delight.
2. I hesitate to say this because I don't wanna be the fish that wanders over to someone else's recipe and ~*hlepfully*~ proposes additions, but are you a fan of the microwave-ready steamable frozen veggie bags? They feel like the right Seasonally Affected effort level (con: technically a different step than the rest of this; pro: that step is PUT IN MICROWAVE AND TURN ON). But then, I could be accused of liking microwave-ready steamable frozen veggies too much. They're just so small and cute and lazy and now I ate a vegetable so my body doesn't go quite as insane....

Anyways I'm going to meditate on this recipe next time I'm blasting myself with my sun lamp. Contemplate its mysteries. Wonder if condensed tomato soup would be a mistake.

[doodlemancy]

THANK YOU i can't write a recipe normal but i can write a recipe silly

steamed veggies is one of my least favorite textures BUT... i bet... frozen veggies of some sort would probably be okay in the rice. there's probably some kind of easy vegetable that could go in there... i'm musing on this...

[wobblegong]

Very fair if steamed is no good. Good thought, frozen is a strong contender! And I'm rounding out the trifecta by contemplating canned options... although it's me so I'm thinking about the Asian food aisle canned goodies like water chestnuts or baby corn, hmm....

Either way I wish you fruitful (veggieful?) contemplation. And thanks again for the recipe!

[dragonfly_jessalyn]

Adding to this super late but some red or orange pepper for color and flavor might work. Stirring in a handful of spinach could also work, or adding half a bigger tomato. I don't have a rice cooker so idk if they could go in while it's cooking, but they could easily be added afterwards. The pepper and tomato are getting a bit out of the 'low effort depression meal' though since you'd need to wash them and cut them up.

I've had this recipe on my mind for awhile now. Thanks for posting it! Not that my depression has been crippling lately (thankfully). It just sounds like a nice low effort recipe to try out. Unfortunately I'm usually not a low effort cook, so most of my ideas for veggie additions to this meal aren't as simple as 'just throw this in'. xD

[doodlemancy]

hahahaaaa i'm glad it sounded good enough to fixate on! i am a high-effort cook from spring to fall and a low-effort cook all winter lmao

spinach would be peeeeerfect i think. like baby spinach. that's easy to toss in. i like to throw it into pasta roni, sometimes along with some gently-fried mushrooms if i'm feeling fancy.