Well, that was a wash.

Thought I'd give it a try. Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
stock, etc. Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. This
strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
it. OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
not have been impressed the first time, either.

For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
is about 8/1.

nb

On Oct 21, 4:33*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *notbob > wrote:
> > Well, that was a wash.
>
> > Thought I'd give it a try. *Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
> > hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
> > stock, etc. *Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. *This
> > strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
> > it. *OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
> > not have been impressed the first time, either. *
>
> > For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
> > is about *8/1.
>
> > nb
>
> Sounds like that should have worked!
> The part of the miripoix you missed was black pepper, carrots and
> celery. Do you think that might have helped?
>
> Maybe a bit of MSG...
> --
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>
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One should be able flavor anything without using that crap MSG!

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:03:57 GMT, notbob wrote:

> Well, that was a wash.
>
> Thought I'd give it a try. Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
> hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
> stock, etc. Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. This
> strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
> it. OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
> not have been impressed the first time, either.
>
> For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
> is about 8/1.
>
> nb

possibly the jasmine rice was the problem. i think plain white rice is
what's usually used.

your pal,
blake

blake replied to notbob:

>> Thought I'd give it a try. Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
>> hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
>> stock, etc. Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. This
>> strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
>> it. OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
>> not have been impressed the first time, either.
>>
>> For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
>> is about 8/1.
>
> possibly the jasmine rice was the problem. i think plain white rice is
> what's usually used.

The "jasmine" aroma would have cooked out, but it should still have tasted
okay. My initial guess would be that it had too much ginger; an excess can
give what might be called the "butt-crack" smell and flavor. It might have
been fixable by adding additional salt and maybe a squeeze of lemon juice.

Besides that, congee is pretty bland by nature; it's possible that notbob's
tastes have changed so that he now dislikes that degree of blandness.

Bob

notbob wrote:
>
> Well, that was a wash.
>
> Thought I'd give it a try. Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
> hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
> stock, etc. Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. This
> strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
> it. OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
> not have been impressed the first time, either.
>
> For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
> is about 8/1.
>
> nb


Why did you use jasmine rice? Plain rice would have been nicer. Try it
again with unscented rice. Cook the rice without any additions other
than water. Use the other things as toppings. Eat with Chinese fried
bread :q

blake murphy wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:03:57 GMT, notbob wrote:
>
> > Well, that was a wash.
> >
> > Thought I'd give it a try. Jasmine rice in homemade chicken broth, 8
> > hrs in crockpot, add ginger, garlic, grn onions, cold chicken from
> > stock, etc. Smelled like butt-crack, tasted not much better. This
> > strange, cuz I made it about 7-8 yrs ago and don't recall disliking
> > it. OTOH, this is the first time I've made it since then, so I must
> > not have been impressed the first time, either.
> >
> > For anyone else wanting to try, the water to rice ratio for a crockpot
> > is about 8/1.
> >
> > nb
>
> possibly the jasmine rice was the problem. i think plain white rice is
> what's usually used.
>
> your pal,
> blake

That's been my experience in restaurants and at the homes of Chinese
cooks. The toppings give character to the dish.

On 2010-10-24, Arri London > wrote:

> Why did you use jasmine rice? Plain rice would have been nicer.

The thought crossed my mind. Maybe next time.

nb