Did I ever tell you about the day I was trying to make rice water, which is an old home cure for colic? You just boil rice in a lot of water and then strain the water off and put it in a bottle. But I was so wasted with exhaustion that I wasn’t vigilant enough, and the water kept getting absorbed and I’d end up with a huge pot of cooked rice, nice wet cooked rice and not one drop of rice water. So I’d try again, and the exact same thing would happen. Luckily Steve dropped by. He ate three or four massive bowls of the rice, with butter and teriyaki sauce. I never did get that rice water made.
