Ideas for rice?

Make it with chicken broth instead of water.

Add cashews and/or shelled edamame.

Add fried egg.

Experiment with different types of rice. I love basmati. Jasmine is good too.

I enjoy a green rice w/ chives, parsley, cilantro, and lime. Saffron rice is good, too, if you use good saffron.

Try other varieties of rice -- red, black, purple, etc. I make a nice autumn salad with butternut squash, red/green onions, cranberries or golden raisins, black rice, pumpkin seeds, pomegranate seeds, pecans. Dress with a citrus-herb or balsamic-herb vinaigrette.

Egg rice with cheese for breakfast

Side dishes:

1. Rice with butter, little salt, lot of fresh ground black pepper.
2. In a skillet add half stick of butter. Let melt then add one large onion chopped small. Cook onion till edges turn slightly brown, add more butter, add as much pepper as you want then add the rice. Salt to taste.
3. After adding more butter to onions add an 8 ounce can of drained green peas. Heat the peas then add the rice.

Bonus: leftover spaghetti sauce and meatball over rice.........no cheese.

Make a pot of rice, and cook a gumbo on the side in another seperate pot. When they done serve the gumbo over the rice.

I like to add the roasted garlic Better than Bouillon when I'm making rice

I recently watched a shitload of "rice cooker recipe" videos on youtube.

They are a bunch of quick all-in-one meals that remind you of simple but delicious looking crock-pot recipes.

I cooked one all-in-one rice cooker recipe using chicken stock, seasoned tilapia, whole tomato, sweet onions, butter and seasoning mix. It was simple & spectacular.