On 13/02/2016 12:54 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> 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
>>>> ...
>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> > wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Man, I love this place!

I think Brooklyn hasn't set foot out of the US. Most Asians I know bathe
MORE than twice a day. My wife is absolutely OCD about cleanliness!

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