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what kind of rice would you use for
Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:58:08 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
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> > Sheldon Martin wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:15:02 -0600, "cshenk" >
> wrote: >>
> >> > Hank Rogers wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> cshenk wrote:
> >> >> > Hank Rogers wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > > cshenk wrote:
> >> >> > > > Sheldon Martin wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:47:57 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 6:12:58 PM UTC-5,
> >> songbird >> > > > > > wrote:
> >> >> > > > > > > making an old fashioned rice pudding
> >> >> > > > > > > (with raisins, eggs, sugar, milk, etc.) ?
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > > i don't want instant rice, but some other
> >> >> > > > > > > type, preferably not terribly expensive. i
> >> >> > > > > > > have access to a number of places that sell
> >> >> > > > > > > various rices so a list of preferences is
> >> >> > > > > > > fine too.
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > > as a kid Mom made some rice pudding and i've
> >> >> > > > > > > not been eating much rice the past several
> >> >> > > > > > > years but once in a while i have a fond
> >> >> > > > > > > memory of this dish so i was saying to Mom that
> >> >> > > > > > > the next time she feels like making something
> >> >> > > > > > > we could try this. it was either this or
> >> >> > > > > > > cream puffs (or perhaps both)...
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > > personally, i think i just really like nutmeg
> >> >> > > > > > > and this was the dish that made me really like
> >> >> > > > > > > it the most. otherwise i've always been a fan
> >> >> > > > > > > of sweets, custards and such.
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > > thanks! 
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > Short grain rice, but you still need to rinse it.
> >> >> > > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > > songbird
> >> >> > > > > >
> >> >> > > > > > --Bryan
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > > We use Canilla rice by Goya for all rice dishes, it's
> >> >> > > > > enriched so shouldn't be washed/rinsed or all the added
> >> >> > > > > nutrients will be lost down the drain. Canilla is very
> >> >> > > > > reasonably priced... sold most everywhere in the US. We
> >> buy >> > > > > it in 20 pound sacks.
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> >
> >> >
> >
https://www.amazon.com/Goya-Canilla-...-4&tag=mh0b-20
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Not a bad brand at all.
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > If Popeye buys it, it's the finest in the universe.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > LOL, not quite but it's a decent rice. I wouldn't get it in
> 20lb >> >> > sacks though.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When we first got back from Japan, we averaged 15lbs a month
> but >> >> > that is down now to about 5lbs a month.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We had rice with dinner tonight and tomorrow, our breakfast
> will >> be >> > fried rice with eggs, bulk sausage, leftover stirfry
> veggies >> (mostly >> > purple cabbage, mushrooms, and bell peppers),
> and black >> garlic salt. >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Sounds like might fine chow for breakfast.
> >> >>
> >> >> I buy jasmine rice in 5 lb bags, but it lasts for several
> months. >> >> Favorite is imperial dragon (thailand I think). I used
> to also buy >> >> calrose rice to make sushi, but haven't done that
> in years. >> >
> >> > Jasmine rice and Basmati are good stuff but for just regular
> eating, >> > Calrose is more my style. We make it about 5 times a
> week (works >> > out to our 5lbs a month) and it shows up in lots of
> things. >>
> >> I wouldn't recommend that imported rice, those slant eyed countries
> >> grow rice and everything else in animal and human waste. I buy
> Goya, >> grown in CA. Also buying rice in five pound packages is very
> >> wasteful, rice doesn't spoil and costs a lot less in the larger
> sizes. >> I buy a 20 lb sack and is a better deal even if I give
> away half. >> Where I lived previously there was a large Hispanic
> and Asian >> population, those families with ten kids bought rice in
> 100 lb sacks.
> >
> > Clueless as normal Sheldon. It's called storage space and the bug
> > proofing we required south of you. But then, you will just call us
> > nasty to need basic bug proofing becaue you don't live in the south
> > so have no clue at all.
>
> The PINHEAD IMBECILE never thought to store rice and other food items
> in glass jars. I sure hope you spray your crotch with Flit.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLIT
Sheldon, it is stored safely but I don't have 25 gallon glass jars
hanging about here. I get it in amounts I can safely store as do all
others in the south. Open your mind a crack. You might get suprised
to learn something about the rest of the USA outside your tiny corner
of Northern NY.
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