Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig wrote:
> On Feb 26, 10:31 pm, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>> On Thu 26 Feb 2009 09:18:01p, sf told us...
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:38:54 -0600, phaeton >
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'm
>>>> just curious because I eat rice probably 2-4 days a week on average. No
>>>> particular reason, other than I really like it.
>>> My brother is one of those white boys who for some crazy reason
>>> absolutely loves rice - and it wasn't a family staple. Rice isn't
>>> very high in my book of "must" eats either. Out of a hundred, maybe
>>> it's a 5.
>>> In any case, I married a rice eater... the kind that waxes nostalgic
>>> saying "Remember when we used to have rice?" after not eating it for
>>> less than a week. <sigh>
>> Most of my life I would barely eat ordinary plain rice except at Chinese
>> restaurants. I did like rice pilaf if it was loaded with other things.
>> However, in the past few years I find myself literally craving plain white
>> rice served with brown gravy. It's also one thing David really likes, so
>> we have it at least once every one to two weeks.
>>
>> I have always like a well made rice pudding, however.
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright
>>
>> "One man's meat is another man's poison"
>> - Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.
> ===================================
> Where do you "get" the brown gravy? And please don't tell me what
> Oscar says to Felix in The Odd Couple . . . "It comes with the meat."
> Lynn in Fargo
> Always in search of good gravy . . . without cooking the roast (pork/
> beef/chicken/turkey etc.


Does the brown gravy that comes in jars count? I see that a lot. I had
a roommate that would cook up a bunch of noodles and mushrooms and pour
this stuff on it. I tried it once, and it didn't change my life, but it
wasn't awful either. I've also seen packets of "just add water".

As for me... I'm certainly one of those crazy white boys that loves
rice. We had it sometimes as a kid, like with kidney beans or jambalaya
or such, but not every day. Somewhere around 7 years ago I started
really getting into the whole "beans and rice" thing, which I still
love. But in cases where I already have a 'main' course, I will make
couscous 1/10 of the time, and rice 9/10 of the time. Short grain, long
grain, jasmine, brown... i love it all. But especially jasmine rice.
Even in the case of sushi, i'm not so much into the types of rolls
that just have the nori wrap and no outer ring-o-rice. Pickled rice is
pretty much the reason I eat sushi.

All the Hmong and Vietnamese guys I work with freak out in the lunch
room when they see a crazy white boy eating rice as often as they do.
It's funny stuff..

-J