finnally! my brown rice and beans came out perfect.Thanks to Melina and Johnathan(my sister in law and her husband).
In my house hold we are only eating eating whole grain brown rice. The difference between brown rice and white rice is that it has a lot more nutritional value than white rice.
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It is also has a very different cooking process than white rice. And I finally got it down.(yay! no more hard rice or mushy rice!)So the ratio of rice to water is 1:2. So Ray and I usually add 1 and 1/2 cups of rice to the pot then I add 3 cups of cold water. Then put the fire to medium high until the water starts boiling.( don't wait til the water starts evaporating like when cooking white rice, this was the mistake that I was doing) Immediately cover the pot with a tight lid and put the fire very low. Make sure the lid is very tight, and if its not I put aluminum foil and a heavy plate on top. And in 50 minutes the rice should be nice and fluffy.

So on Monday Melina came over and showed me how she makes her beans. So once I got the basics from her recipe..I created my own habichuela recipe yesterday. So I did one pound of red kidney beans, which is the the small bag. I used a deep pot and filled it up with about 12 cups of water. I added 3 pieces of ham hock to it. I had it under medium high heat for about 3 hours, adjust the heat so its a nice bubble all through out.
The beans should be soft enough that when you take one between two fingers and squeeze it, it should easily break apart. Once the beans are very soft. then we are ready to prepare the sofrito.

1/2 TSP of: sea salt, powdered oregano, onion powder, garlic powder, sea salt
1/4 TSP of black pepper
6 cloves of garlic
1 red onion halved
half a green bell pepper
3 small pieces of ham hock
2 TSP of tomato paste
1 TSP of white vineger
2 sprigs of cilantro chopped


In a sauce pan saute all the ingredients. Add like a 1/2 cup of the beans into the saute pan and stir. And then add everything that is in the saute pan into the pot that has the beans. Now take out 1/2 cup of the beans and mash in the pilon. Add that back into the beans and let the beans simmer in very low heat. And then ur done!