"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 9/14/2013 1:39 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 06:00:14 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/12/2013 6:15 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> Seems like in this house, when I don't have rice cooked, somebody
>>>>> wants it.
>>>>
>>>> lol that's life)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Cooked rice freezes well. IIRC, Julie has a freezer. So cook a bunch
>>> and freeze portions.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Um, how long does it take to cook rice, 20 minutes? Doesn't get any
>> sillier than stocking up ones freezer with cooked rice. I can see
>> freezing some left over rice but I'd not deliberately cook rice to
>> freeze.
>>
> I don't know about Julie or why she can't cook rice when someone in her
> house wants some. Speaking for myself, I was preparing enough rice for
> several meals and freezing portions of it to take to work for lunch, as a
> side dish.

Because when they want it, they want it right then. They don't want to wait
20 minutes. They also won't eat instant. Angela ate it for a couple of
years, telling me there was no difference. But now she notices the
difference and won't eat it. I don't blame her.

I used to buy the precooked in the thick plastic bags. Until I had the
incident! I was preparing dinner for Angela and opened a pouch of it.
First there was a foul smell, then black liquid seeped out. I looked in at
the rice and it was totally black. And this was brown rice. Not black
rice. Seems that some sort of miniscule hole or something happened to the
bag and the contents went moldy. I tossed all of the other pouches that I
had and never bought that kind again. Those took 90 seconds to cook.
>
> For example, if I made a chuck roast or beef tips with gravy, I'd have a
> packet of cooked rice to go with it. (Of course I also portioned and
> froze some of the meat/gravy.) Add a portion of frozen vegetables. Nuke
> it, there was a complete meal for lunch. Most everyone else went to
> Burger King or some other fast food place. Homemade lunch is better!

But this isn't when they want rice for dinner. This is when they want a
snack all of a sudden.

I know that you can buy frozen cooked rice. I wouldn't do it unless I was
out and buying food for a sick person and they needed to eat right away.
Then I might buy one portion and make it as soon as we got home.

I no longer have the freezer in my garage. Okay it is there but doesn't
work. So I have limited freezer space. I am currently going through 5-6
boxes of strawberry pops per week. And I dislike having to go to the store
every few days to get them. So I leave room for those, some frozen potato
products, and some meat and faux meat. There are currently some other
vegetables in the freezer but when those are used up, we are going back to
canned. We all like canned and I have plenty of room for that.

I wonder why there is not canned rice? Somebody used to make it. Mexican
or Spanish. I bought it at the military commissary. It was not bad. Of
course from scratch is better.