Why am I buying rice cereal for Sofia? I can cook a 7 course meal every holiday, puree everything from green beans to butternut squash but for some reason I can't cook rice! My rice either comes out sticky like glue that you could use to spackle a wall or hard kernels of rice that you can chip a tooth on. It's a running joke in my family that I can cook pretty much anything except rice. I once made a spanish meal for friends and the rice came out so sticky I sent my husband out to buy chinese white rice hoping they couldn't tell the difference. Growing up as a child I remember eating several meals with rice. Rice and beans, rice and chicken you name it we had it with either white or yellow rice never brown rice. I didn't even know brown rice existed until I went away to college and wasn't under my mothers rice spell. I finally learned how to make rice from a friend that informed me she just uses equal parts water to rice and simmers for 20 minutes. Wow after all these years I never heard of an recipe formula so simple. It has comes out perfect every time!

While I was researching the various stages of appropriate foods to feed Sofia I came across homemade rice cereal.  I immediately went to the site and was amazed how easy it was to make rice cereal!  I will admit the first time I tried to make rice cereal it was a disaster....shocker!  I was starting to fear that my rice history was repeating itself. I attempted to grind the rice in the Beaba machine and but it was still chunky and thick.  I cooked the chunky rice and then tried to puree it after but I made spackle again!  The recipe recommends you grind the rice to a powder the Beaba, blender or food processor don't grind it fine enough so what did I do...bought another kitchen appliance! I purchased a bullet blender, the kind you see on infomercials at midnight that can grind pretty much anything including the kitchen sink.  You can also use a coffee grinder if you have one just make sure you clean it really really well, the last thing you need is a caffeinated baby! I bought one for 20 bucks at Walmart and it works wonders.  It turns any grain from rice, oatmeal even barley to fine powder the perfect consistency to make all those boxes cereal grains for your baby. This recipe is fool proof trust me if I can make rice cereal considering my awful history so can you!

Short Grain Organic Brown Rice

Water

1. Grind 2 cups of rice

2. Boil 1 cup of water

3. Add 2 tablespoons of rice while constantly stirring making sure to avoid lumps

4. Let rice simmer for 8-10 minutes

* I make the rice in single 2 tablespoon portions you can store the rest of ground rice in a container for future use and make it as you need it. You can also add more water if you want a thinner consistency.