Crock Pot Rice Recipe

Go ahead and judge me, I can cook and bake all sorts of things but I am a horrible rice cooker.  I even, oh my I can't believe I'm admitting this, have a rice cooker and I can't make rice in it.  I tried twice, it was awful.  Really it is my husbands and for some reason it just doesn't like me.  So when I was at Stephanie O'Dea  reading her 365 Slow Cooker recipes and came across rice I thought "I can totally do this."  So I did and it turned out pretty good.  I printed out the recipe when I was meal planning so all I had to do was go to the back of my House Journal and start cooking.  

Here is the recipe  from her 365 days posts:

Rub one tablespoon of butter around the bottom and sides of the crockpot

Add 1 cup of rice

2 cups of water

Pinch of salt

Cook on high for 2-3 hours checking every 45 minutes.  Stephanie's was done after 2 hrs and 15 minutes.  Mine was done after 2 hours.  I could tell after the second checking that  it didn't need another complete 45 minutes.  I also modified it by adding a chicken bullion cube at the first 45 minute check because we were having chicken and I wanted it to be extra yummy.  I also used short grain brown rice.  

It got mmmm's and every one ate it.  Jack shoveled it in his mouth, which always makes a mother proud.  I made a roasted, butterflied chicken, salad and a baguette.  It was a yummy meal.  Definitely keeping crock pot rice on the menu.