Black Rice, Red Rice, Brown Rice and Wild Rice, this has to be my favorite mix ever. If I am eating just one kind, it tends to be grown in the USA Red Rice.
Don’t you just love a food that you can take in its dry state and with cooking create something 3x the volume. Whole Rice is a very healthy food, if you don’t like brown rice, I would highly recommend trying some of the different kinds available, I love! wild rice, but I don’t like the price tag that goes with it.. Red Rice is as close as I can find to getting that firm rice with a nutty flavor that wild rice has but with a much lower price tag, I have never found red rice as cheaply as I can find plain white rice but I can find it cheaper or equal in price to good quality Uncle Bens Long Grain Rice.
I don’t consider Minute Rice to even be food, its like eating wonder bread and thinking that that its a healthy food.. Good quality whole grain rice is like the difference between a good whole grain bread vs cheap white bread. They are a world apart.
I don’t own a rice cooker but I do have what I call my rice pot, its a hand me down, I got it from my momma when was 19 and its a small brown bean pot, It makes a perfect pot of rice if done correctly, at its max it will hold 2 cups of raw rice, or 6 cups of cooked rice
2 cups of rice, 6 cups of water, a pat of butter, a bit of salt, and typically some dried garlic and herbs. Always remember to wash your rice first and to do so until the water runs clear before putting it in the dish. I always start with cold water, and then into a oven at 350 for 2 to 3 hours depending on the kind of rice being cooked.
FG Basic Rice Dish
- One Pot of Cooked Rice- Listed Above
- One small onion- Peeled, Finely diced
- One Clove of Garlic-Peeled, Finely diced
- One stock of Celery-Washed, sliced in half and finely Diced
- Then I just start looking in the fridge for possable extra’s like
- Mushrooms
- Peppers
- Cabbage
- Green Onions
- carrot
- Raddish
- Fresh Chopped Greens
Once I have what I am going to use as my veggies, I put a little oil in my cast iron and cook up the onion and garlic, then add the rest till just softened, and then typically add a pat of butter, and then mix that with my rice and serve.
Breakfast-Homemade Bacon, Herbed Oven Fries, Eggs with Nettle and Pinnapple Smoothie
Lunch-(which was the heavy meal of the day) was Herbed Oven Fries, Lamb Hamburger, mushrooms and onion, with the leftover gravy from the chicken dinner.
Supper-Pancakes
Drinks-Water, Tea, Hot Chocolate.
So what is your favorite kind of Rice? Have you tried Red Rice? What’s your favorite way of serving it? Do you make old fashioned Rice pudding?
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We love rice. Tried the red but didn’t think it was anything special other than pretty in a rice salad. They sell it at our bulk food store and I love to try new things there. Use a rice cooker as my stepmom was Korean and she made sure we had one! DH doesn’t like brown rice; says too much chewing but he does love basmati and jasmine. So many good things you can do with a pot of rice….I love leftovers with a lot of real butter for lunch. Not low carb for sure but filling and quick as I always have some in the frig and do up extra to freeze supper size bags. DEE
My DH does not care for brown rice much either but thankfully he does like the red or the mixed blend. I like rice with a touch of butter but I typically make that one with sliced fresh green onions in at the same time.
I dont think I’ve ever had butter on rice! I love fluffy hot rice, you only need a tiny bit of tasty sauce for a yummy meal. Spending a little time in Thailand was an education in how little sauce you actually need. A very frugal meal, though I know, not sustainable for 100 milers.
I will agree with you about just how little of a good sauce you need to add that extra umph to the dish.. Were you just visiting Thailand or were you over for a job?
Rice as a food other than rice pudding was something we never had a lot of. My mother said that in the war, rice was one thing they could get plenty of as other things were rationed. Apparently they ate rice every way mom could think of but when my brother Ron was born they needed more coal for heat so traded a bachelor that lived down from us-rice for coal as he lived in a granary and didn’t need his full coal ration. Anyway the only rice my mother still loved was rice pudding with cream and cinnamon or chocolate rice pudding.I like it sometimes with cocoanut and it is decadent if you add a can of cocanut milk in when you cook it and then a cup of cocanut at the end. If you then add a can of crushed pineapple drained you then get what my children used to call not really rice pudding.mom
Hi Mom,.
Thanks a amazing piece of family history, Trading Rice for Coal.. I can’t help but think I need to take a little time for research at some point to find out, why in Canada, one of the largest producers of grains, including wheat etc would have lots of basic rice during rationing, a food that does not grow in our country and would need to imported, while food that was grown locally was taken and rationed..
I remember that recipe, for your fancy fruity rice pudding, we will have to make it when you come for your visit.