On 2/12/2016 3:50 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:30:40 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2/12/2016 10:11 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>>> On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8:50:16 AM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:50:07 -0700, Janet B >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:51:40 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>> I like canned spanish rice.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I bought some many years ago that was good. Can't remember the
>>>>>>>>> brand or where I was living when I bought it. But the only kind
>>>>>>>>> I can find now in a can isn't good.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have never noticed canned rice. Could be they don't sell it
>>>>>>>> here. I *do* recall a rather nice small can at HEB in San Antonio
>>>>>>>> Texas that was a premade 'spanish rice' seasonings. You added it
>>>>>>>> to cooked rice.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fortunately for me I have a rice machine (small unit) so even if I
>>>>>>>> don't feel like cooking, that one is easy. If I'm really lazy, I
>>>>>>>> ask my daughter to make it (grin).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I most likely bought it at the military commissary and as I'm sure
>>>>>>> you know, they often sell things that you can't get elsewhere. But
>>>>>>> how can you do Spanish rice in a rice machine? How would you brown
>>>>>>> it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Smile, you make the rice then brown it if that particular recipe calls
>>>>>> for browning at all. Fact is there are so many varieties of 'spanish
>>>>>> or mexican rice' that it's very possible you are used to making it
>>>>>> almost rice-a-roni ish where you brown the rice in butter then add the
>>>>>> water and seasonings?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Others use fresh cooked rice which is then lightly stir fried in butter
>>>>>> and olive oil then added spices and tomatoes are added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A simple sort that is soft and works well is to make a batch of rice
>>>>>> (you'd want about 3 cups yield at least) then add Ro-Tel (or a store
>>>>>> knock off) and heat then serve. Some heat the ro-tel separate in the
>>>>>> microwave then use it to top the rice. While not haute cuisine, it's
>>>>>> simple and fast and in your house may be more effective since people
>>>>>> could chose to top the rice with that or something else.
>>>>>
>>>>> The dish is a pilaf and is thousands of years old. Pilaf exists every
>>>>> where in the world and is made according to local traditions Generally
>>>>> the basics are rice is 'browned' in a fat, cooked in a broth and
>>>>> meats/vegetables are added. Rice a Roni, a rice and pasta dish is
>>>>> still a pilaf.
>>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>>> Pilaf is one of the most widely consumed dishes on the planet, most
>>>> every ethnicity has a basic version, frying the grains is not
>>>> manditory, most ethnicities do ny fry the rice prior to adding liquid,
>>>> in fact most rice that's fried is fried after cooking in liquid, as in
>>>> Chinese Fly Lice which is technically a pilaf.
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf
>>>
>>> Asians don't ever cook rice in any kind of broth. I suppose some might
>>> but I've never seen it happen. Fried rice is prepared with pre-cooked
>>> white rice. I suppose some trendy restaurants might use brown rice but
>>> I've never seen it. There is jook, which is a popular soup made with
>>> rice but it's always made cooked white rice. Asians are unabashedly
>>> unoriginal when it comes to cooking rice.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Some Asian places here do offer brown rice or even brown fried rice but
>>> they are the Americanized places. Asians don't put salt or fat in the
>>> rice either. My friend was horrified when I told her how I made rice as
>>> she only ever makes the Japanese style.
>>
>> Asians would be surprised to learn that some Westerners don't wash their
>> rice before cooking. It's just not in my DNA to follow that practice.
>
> Thats because rice grown in the US is clean, imported rice is
> disgustingly filthy with human and other animal excrement. I won't
> buy imported rice. Asians are the most disgustingly filthy people on
> this planet... the vast majority of Asians go from birth to grave
> without ever bathing.
>

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