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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

I love rice - white , not brown! To PerkvMac... I always order fried rice when at a Chinese restaurant and take the plain white rice supplied home and place it in my freezer in about 1/2 cup - 1 cup portions. Great to add to homemade chicken or beef soup, use as a filling for stuffing green peppers or salisbury steak. Once I learned to cook rice properly, I never again resorted to the Uncle Ben's Instant version. I make a rice pilaf mix with dried onion soup mix, basil, parsly, and rice which is always ready 20 minutes after I decide to have rice for dinner.

martinscot at 12:46PM on 03/17/08

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

In descending order......filet mignon, porterhouse, bone-in ribeye, T-bone and any steak that happens to my plate!

martinscot at 6:17PM on 12/26/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

filet mignon, medium-rare, sherried mushrooms....MMMMM

martinscot at 2:29PM on 12/21/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Heritage Smoked Ham

This ham sounds incredible! Our local Wegman's Market has a wonderful oat/apple whole-grain bread and that - with a good mustard - and a thick slice of this ham would be pure HEAVEN!

martinscot at 3:56PM on 12/19/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Garrison Confections Ultimate Chocolate Cooler

With all of the "DARK" affectianados, I almost hesitate to state that I prefer a good, rich milk chocolate but that's the sad fact.

martinscot at 1:47PM on 12/15/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

Always has been ....always will be..... filet mignon!!!!

martinscot at 2:24PM on 12/14/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage

Valley Inn in Clarence, New York....can't be beat!!

martinscot at 5:00PM on 12/11/07

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Heritage Smoked Ham

mix grainy mustard with real mayo; spread on whole wheat bread ; add that wonderful ham and a crisp leaf of lettuce. Divine!

martinscot at 4:38PM on 12/05/07

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

@wookie - That is a relief!

crazyspice at 1:30PM on 03/18/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

Rice seems so innocent. Its mild, its white, its starchy, it goes with so many things.
Hmmm, I've never known anyone who wouldn't eat rice except one of my dogs. I had to give her plain, poached skinless, boneless chicken and white rice for a few days (stomach issues). She ate all the chicken and pushed all the rice onto the floor. I was amazed at her muzzle dexterity.

btw, I'm NOT comparing you to my dog! ;)

wookie at 12:48PM on 03/18/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

Cassandra, a corpse...really?

ThatGirl153 at 12:15PM on 03/18/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

@All - I will stick with pasta, but thanks for trying.

@ChelleyD01 - Wow! That is a new description for me.

@ccbweb - Just think, with me not eating rice, there will be more for the Billions who really depend on it.

@Southern_bella - Thank you for not letting me be "All Alone"

@fuuchan - What can I possibly add to that!

crazyspice at 7:38PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

@crazyspice - hahah, bad rice is pretty bad, all right...

fuuchan at 7:16PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

@fuuchan - Coagulating rice, ugh!

crazyspice at 6:58PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

Nothing wrong with not liking a particular food.

However, really good rice is completely different from take out rice, or boxed rice.

I grew up eating rice, but even I can't stand take-out rice (gluey, mushy and clumping together, soaked in its own sweat in those paper cartons which are TERRIBLE for keeping food in, by the way).

Boxed rice frequently has this weird plasticky off-taste. I couldn't eat the Chinese food at my college cafeterias because it was always that prepackaged stuff.

Even restaurant sushi rice isn't that great unless they've just prepared a fresh batch that hasn't been coagulating.

fuuchan at 6:50PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

Check out Lundberg wild rice blend. You may become a rice convert!
www.lundberg.com

Catharine56 at 6:14PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

My SIL has a Japanese mother. They both make rice with every dinner. My brother does most of the cooking, but even if they have spaghetti, she makes (and they all love and eat...) rice. I think it's cultural and habit, as well as what tastes good and/or comforting to you.

My ex and I went fishing one time and caught one blowfish. Not enough to cook. We left it in a bucket of water on the porch. Next morning there were all these "worms" in there. A fisherman could probably say what they actually were. That night, we went out for Chinese and the sprouts looked just like the worms. I couldn't eat. Just that one night, though. I eat them all the time now.

PerkyMac at 1:16PM on 03/17/08

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True Confession is good for the Soul. My dilemma?

My husband didn't care for rice because all he was exposed to, being from Middle America, was Uncle Ben's. I told him, no wonder you can't stand rice, I wouldn't even feed that to a dog. Well, I'd never feed a dog rice anyway...but that's besides the point.

When he moved in with me, he began liking rice because it was REAL rice -- medium-grain Kokuho Rose...no, I don't work for Kokuho!

I don't mind Jasmine rice or sticky rice, but I can't stomach fried rice, seasoned pilaf, basmati, or brown rice because they are typically too strong in flavor or are salty. This defeats the (my) purpose of having the rice to begin with -- as an offset to salty or strong flavored foods.

Haha -- that remark about maggots reminds me of a childhood story my mother told me that occurred when she was ~5 years old. Her older sister was distraught after finding a corpse with maggots. At dinner, as soon as my aunt would pick up her rice bowl, my mother would whisper, "maggots."

In the end, both of them wouldn't be able to eat. My aunt would lose her appetite and run off to puke. My mother got scolded severely and sent away from the table. She admitted that she got a kick out of that a few times...

Cassaendra at 1:04PM on 03/17/08