Only vaguely related, but Kev and I were visiting his dad this past summer and his dad has been trying to eat healthy and chose steamed white rice as a side.
In my head I was thinking that sounds incredibly boring but good for him for picking the most healthy option.
About two bites into his rice, he's like "This is really bad. It's so bland." as if it didn't occur to him what steamed white rice was before he ordered it.
Then he proceeded to ask if he could use my salad dressing to give it some flavor, so he ate white rice with balsamic vinaigrette and I ate a dry salad because I’m a team player.
@DemocracySpot@RickiTarr He didn't want to ask the server for anything else to make the boring white rice taste less boring because he was embarrassed. Poor guy.
I just thought it was funny how he was so SURPRISED that his plain steamed white rice was bland.
@Alice Bahaha Once I was out to dinner with my in-laws, She ordered Anti-Pasta, then complained it had no pasta. He ordered a Mushroom Cheesesteak, then complained it didn't have meat. I had to try so hard not to laugh.
@Alice@RickiTarr seriously, though. Some options we use around here for tastier, healthy rice include (not necessarily all together unless you're the YOLO type): nutritional yeast, a dash of fish sauce, lime juice, finely chopped cilantro, toasted sesame oil, a tomato paste/dill/lemon juice combo, seasoned nori, rice vinegar, galangal, and olive oil blended with fresh or roasted garlic and black pepper.
@BetaCuck4Lyfe Protip and also probably blasphemy to some people but white rice that's been refrigerated and reheated is actually healthier (because the starches get changed during this process). So enjoy those reheated leftovers!
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Have you tried black rice? It's similar to brown rice and you cook it the same, but it's loaded with anthocyanins and has a slightly better glycemic index. I think it has a touch more flavor than regular brown rice as well.
Ah, okay. I was wondering if it was the same thing. And yeah, I think that is a marketing ploy, too.
It's pretty tasty.
My favourite rice, though, is genji mai.
(I'm also the weirdo who has like six types of rice at any given time, though, no black rice at the moment. Jasmine, basmati, arborio, mixed wild, red, and genji mai.)
@Gigi@TheGreatLlama@BetaCuck4Lyfe@Alice I never thought about how much rice I keep until just now lol. No red right now, but everything you said plus sushi rice, and sweet sticky rice.
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Ah, I usually have a lot of rice on hand, but it's normally just the one varsity. I'm cheap and I hate running out of things, so I buy rice by the sack and keep the extra in a food grade bucket with one of those screw lids. I'm not a prepper, I'm just bad at keeping track of things like that so I'd rather only run out every year or two.
@RickiTarr As child we mixed rice with some type of dark brown sugar. But now I would say yuck ! What you not do is put ketchup in it. It taste better how it on the picture.
@RickiTarr as a person who loves ketchup, please don't do this. Putting ketchup on plain rice is a violation of 29 world treaties and the Geneva convention.
@fmhilton Ketchup on Eggs is like my favorite thing to put on eggs (second is tartar sauce to make deviled eggs). Super tasty! Discovered the taste when ketchup on my hashbrowns accidentally got on my eggs. @patrickhadfield@RickiTarr
I have cooked eggs with garlic and also sprinkled parmesan on top. I think I've had them every way possible. I lived on eggs for a while. One gets creative. 🙂
I haven't had a good breakfast burrito since I left San Francisco 15 years ago. I live in a small town in the south and I can't find one. The fast food ones? Please.
@RickiTarr Rice is one of the foods I chose when I'm actually craving a ton of salt. By the time I'm finished with white rice, people mistake it for brown rice due to the soya sauce pool.
@RickiTarr SO, IN THE MOVIE THE LIVES OF OTHERS, THERE'S A SCENE WHERE AN EAST GERMAN STASI OFFICER EATS A PLATE OF RICE AND KETCHUP ALONE IN HIS SAD LITTLE APARTMENT. THE DIRECTOR LATER SAID THAT HE CHOSE TO HAVE THE CHARACTER EAT THAT MEAL BECAUSE IT WAS THE SADDEST DISH HE COULD THINK OF.
@RickiTarr I'm a person that doesn't like ketchup on anything, probably because we only had "catsup" as a kid and a really sweet variety. But I tolerate it on a burger, maybe on bad meatloaf or a cheap dry steak if nothing else is around. But rice?!? I like a lot of things on rice, to be sure. There are any number of spicy sauces that I love on it. But not ketchup.
@Badger_AF@RickiTarr we're just piling on on how we make white rice taste better but also my wife is like look white rice has a natural sweetness y'all can't appreciate!
A little salt and pepper really pops on Jasmine rice
As a kid, Minute Rice and margarine was a treat
I understand your outrage, but I was a child of barbarians. We treated rice like potatoes. The rice in our house was overcooked and boiled, Minute Rice was light and fluffy. I preferred it when it was made
Rice generally was rare, though, I had mashed potatoes nearly every night until I left home. Rice was much more common thereafter and my tastes changed.
Does anyone remember boil-in bags? Pre-cooked, frozen sliced meat (turkey, chicken, beef) with brown gravy in a plastic packet. Boil the packet in a pot of water, and pour it over rice. Loved that. Fast, cheap, savory, salty af. I'd probably try that again over steamed rice just to see if it's still tastes good - if I could find them anymore, gone out of style I suspect.
I admire prepping, but I can't generate enough enthusiasm. I'm an eat-to-live sort, not a live-to-eat sort.
If I'm cooking something more complex than a sandwich, I often make enough to eat twice, that's about my limit, unless it's a crockpot thing, then 3-5.
And I'll eat it for a week, like a hunter-gatherer or something.
My motorcycle broke down a few weeks ago, waiting on parts, so I've been living out of the freezer and cans for a while now. Nearly out, but I'm good for a few days still. I don't eat much, so it's easier for me than most.
@RickiTarr@swordplay@grumpasaurus@Badger_AF I like to go back to the original: Indonesian sweet-salty soy sauce, named... kecap. Or: kécap. Or: ketjap. Probably the origin of the English word “ketchup”.
@RickiTarr I don't know how I'd feel about American style tomato ketchup on rice, but I could see some of the other variations being interesting. Also pickle, particularly Branston Pickle or some of the walnut variations.
@autolycos@RickiTarr from Wikipedia "Branston Pickle is made from a variety of diced vegetables, including swede, carrots, onions and cauliflower pickled in a sauce made from vinegar, tomato, apple and spices.[9] Branston Pickle is sweet and spicy with a chutney-like consistency, containing chunks of vegetables in a thick brown sticky sauce."
That sounds like it could go very nicely on rice.
Edit: 'swede' is more commonly called rutabaga in the US, reminiscent of turnip. Think firm root vegetable.
@fencepost@RickiTarr@autolycos Branston Pickle is excellent, although I’m more likely to eat it with a nice cheddar and crusty bread. But heck, why not rice?
@RickiTarr Savagery! I love ketchup, but if I'm lazy and going to do some white people shit to rice I'm going to put either butter or cheese on it.
Or if I'm feeling slightly less lazy I'll turn it into fried rice. Which for some reason I didn't realize was extremely easy to make until a few years ago.
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Have you tried Japanese curry? You can find it in international markets. I have bought it in a package of 4 squares. It's very good.
@RickiTarr I had to take a moment to collect myself when I read that. However, I will say Chick-fil-A sauce on rice is really good (and really not good for you as I found out 😬).
@RickiTarr Reminds me of this, from Farewell to Manzanar, which every LAUSD kid had to read in junior high school. I've never forgotten it:
They issued us army mess kits, the round metal kind that fold over, and plopped in scoops of canned Vienna sausage, canned string beans, steamed rice that had been cooked too long, and on top of the rice a serving of canned apricots. The Caucasian servers were thinking that the fruit poured over rice would make a good dessert. Among the Japanese, of course, rice is never eaten with sweet foods, only with salty or savory foods. Few of us could eat such a mixture. But at this point no one dared protest. It would have been impolite. I was horrified when I saw the apricot syrup seeping through my little mound of rice. I opened my mouth to complain. My mother jabbed me in the back to keep quiet. We moved on through the line and joined the others squatting in the lee of half-raised walls, dabbing courteously at what was, for almost everyone there, an inedible concoction.
@RickiTarr here in Spain we cook rice like in a thousandths different styles (and only one is authentic paella!), and many of them include adding mashed tomato or tomato sauce. No ketchup, at least in original recipes, but yes, tomato sauce.
I remember when I was a child my mother preparing rice on a long tray with a topping of tomato sauce along the center and mayonnaise along the sides. And it was one of our favorite dishes (there was tuna and other ingredients below the rice, btw).
@RickiTarr interesting, but this is Spain, so it fits. Maybe tomato use as a sauce was not very popular? Or maybe sauces weren't popular, just condiments: oil, vinegar, spices, added directly to food as seasoning or when cooking, with no "sauce" intermediate. I think of other countries around the Mediterranean, and I start thinking that in Europe maybe it's the other way, colder countries might have been more adept to the concept of long-life sauces (besides Roman garum and such).
@RickiTarr@precariousmind Maltese here. We only use premade sauces with junk food such as burgers, fries and maybe Chinese food (non-authentic kind). So we're pretty much the same here. I know I said I ate rice with sweet and sour sauce in a reply earlier but I only did that because my flatmate at the time was foreign. Were they Maltese, they would've somehow informed my grandma who would've proceeded to rise from the dead, tell me that I needed to eat more and smack me across the head.
Also, ketchup (or more correctly ketjap) is used on rice in South East Asia though it has nothing to do with tomatoes and is basically a type of fermented (I think) soy style sauce
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