Home and Living general advice thread

I only ever cooked rice with water but if you have chicken broth handy, using that (or any sort of stock or bouillon cubes) helps make rice less bland, I've heard. Depending on if vegetables are available maybe also add like, some onions (diced, cooked in a pan with a bit of oil)? For pasta, a lot of it depends on what you have available. Adding parmesan and olive oil (or butter, I guess) would be pretty basic and make it less non-tasteless but olive oil's mad expensive.