Spicy risotto with tomatoes, which we received as a gift. It was cold enough to be Minnesota outside and I came home really wanting soup, but we had no ingredients and I was running out of ideas. All you do is cook onions in butter, then open the bag and add the rice mixture, stirring in chicken broth as you go and adding just a little bit of parmesan at the end. Bags of flavored rice are a very convenient and savory form of prepackaged dinners, it seems to me. All you need to do is add a little protein on the side and you have a meal.
(Photo: Duluth, Minnesota, Christmas 2013.)