Rice is Nice.

I write out a menu every week, and every week I include rice in at least two meals. It's easy and versatile and it only takes 20 minutes.  The basic recipe is as follows:

What you need: sauce pan with a lid, rice, liquid of your choice

1 part white rice to 3 parts liquid **1C uncooked rice = 3C cooked rice**
Bring to a boil
Boil one minute
Reduce heat to low and cover
Leave it alone for 15 minutes
Toss with a fork and serve

Now, that is totally basic. The "liquid" can be water, chicken broth, tomato sauce, 1/2 milk- 1/2 water... It's up to you. Add sugar, add cinnamon, add butter, onion, garlic...
Whatever makes you happy.
My favorite is to use 1 (8oz) can of ya to sauce, 2C chicken broth, 1C rice, 2 cloves garlic minced, 1/2 onion finely diced with a dash of salt and taco seasoning, cook as above- serve with any tex-mex dish.
My husband has been known to cook up the sweeter version late at night by using milk and water then topping with cinnamon and sugar. (Add some condensed milk, nutmeg and a hot oven and we're talking rice pudding that makes my knees weak, but that's another day).