One of the first things I learned to cook on top of the stove was rice! Rice and pinto beans doctored up with browned ground beef, with cornbread on the side?
We gonna get a big ol' sausage
A big ol' plate of ranch-style beans
I could eat the heart of Texas!
The one piece of cooking equipment I bought myself, new, was a rice steamer. It does veggies too, but once you've grown used to how good rice tastes from a steamer, you can't eat it out of a pot any more.
Hmm, we'll have to negotiate about the beans but the rest sounds great.