I love rice as much as you do. In my country, Venezuela, we also cook rice with coconut for some dishes. Most known is a sweet rice, but at the east side cook white salty rice with coconut to eat for lunch along with some proteins, plantain and beans.

The rice you cooked looks very tasty, I agree with you rice is a very versatile cereal.

Fresh homemade pasta surely doesn't look exactly like factory pasta but I assure you it's very good to eat.

Best wishes in the challenge