Tuesday
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The tomatoes continue drying.

This evening was chicken and rice.

The way I cook rice is to put 300ml of white Basmati (I bought a large sack of it in the local oriental-food store) into some oil in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. After coating all the grains in oil and heating for a bit, I put in 600ml of water, bring it to the boil, then close the lid and leave it alone.

Meanwhile I got out the large frying-pan and heated some oil, into which I threw these items, as each was ready:

- two small thinly-sliced onions
- a breast of Sunday's chicken, chopped into small pieces
- two oranges, peeled and sliced thinly
- about a dozen dried apricots, cut into small pieces
- about a dozen cherry tomatoes, halved
- a bag of pistachios. NB it took at least five minutes to get them out of their shells
- some chopped parsley.

I added oil from time to time.

When the rice was ready (I lift the lid from time to time to see whether all the water has been absorbed) I added it to the pan and tossed everything together, then served it. Quite delicious but a bit dry: perhaps I should look into sauces or lubricants that might work with the mix.