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Brown rice, white rice
I like brown rice, Mr Limey likes white rice. Is there any way to prepare a dinner involving rice for us both without using two pans for the rice?
I know you inventive Dwellars will come up with something. It may even be practicable! |
Eat dinner under a brown lightbulb. The white rice will look brown.
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Do you have a microwave? Individual bags of rice, problem solved :p Alternatively, boil in the bag in a pan of water. Uncle Ben's boil in the bag rice is bloody lovely.
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Have either of you tried wild rice?
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Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice is the bomb! Yeah, I'm no help but I needed to say it. ;)
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switch to quinoa? is good
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Don't be ricist!
Cook the brown rice and white rice in one pot, then separate the grains after cooking. |
Grow rice which is brown on one side and white on the other. Arrange the grains on your plate according to preference.
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Put 3 cups of water in the pan. Bring the water to boiling. Put the boil-bag with brown rice in the pan. When the bag is done, remove it, and measure out 2 cups of the still-boiling water. Put that water back in the pan and add a cup of white rice and cook it normally. |
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Gouge his eyes out and tell him it's white. He'll know it's not, but he'll know not to argue.
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Sorry, I should have said "boil-in-the-bag" is not an option (I don't think. I'll have to try to do a cost/benefit analysis of extra power on heating two pans vs cost of boil in bag sort ... hmmm. Meanwhile I have quite a large bag of white rice to feed him in the meanwhile!)
I know you'd have some great answers! Keep 'em coming! And yes, wild rice is fab, but Mr L doesn't think so. In fact at the local farmers' market today I noticed that I am drawn to the unusual veg (purple spuds), but Mr L no likeee. Perhaps I should just blindfold him. |
Make up a big batch of the white and freeze it in individual serving sizes - like freezer bags, that you could then microwave when you want it.
OR. Maybe there is such a thing as a mesh bag that you could cook his white rice in the same pot as the brown (obviously increase the amount of water), then just take out the white rice when its done since it cooks faster than the brown rice. |
Make your own boil in bag rice with some cheese cloth. Make a pouch filled with brown and a pouch filled with white, and boil.
I've never done this, but it should work. You might even be able to reuse the cheesecloth. |
compromise and use Basmati!
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Alternate and learn to tolerate each other's choices?
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glatt is a genius.
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Buy two of these:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html...t_adv_XSG10001 They are $20 each and you can cook consistently good rice with around 30 seconds of preparation. |
Do they work equally well with long-grain, short-grain, and brown rice?
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More importantly, do they work equally well with these kinds of rice:
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I think you missed one.
Don't most rice cooking requirements fall into the three categories above? |
Probably. I was just messing around with a list of rices. There are so many! Who knew? :)
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Or you can just tell Mr Limey to stop whining and eat what he gets served !!! :)
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I have had one for a few years now and I have no problems with it. |
I really want a rice steamer. A purchase I keep forgetting about. I've numerous containers of rice in my cabinet but I never use it except for a few certain recipes.
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I knew you guys would have plenty of supremely inventive answers!
For practicality I'm favouring the low-tech, cheesecloth bag approach myself. I'm trying to use fewer utensils, DanaC, glatt and piercehaweye45, I'm afraid, and anyway, I already cook consistently good rice with arould 30 seconds of preparation :). I've tried Zip's method, but frequently it just isn't worth the hassle. Likewise Pete, sometimes eating white rice is easier than persuading, y'know? And Jim - Quinoa?!?! The very name is wierd, I'll eat it, but I fear it's more persuasion for Mr L!! Probably my favourite idea is ZenGum's, but arranging them on the plate? Can't we train them to lie down the right way up?? Gouging his eyes out would also probably create more problems than it would solve ... Thank you all so much for helping me to see this in a different (brown?) light! |
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In my house, whoever does the cooking gets to pick the ingredients. So if I cook, we eat brown rice. If he cooks, we eat white.
Simple...don't like what I cook? Make your own. |
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Shouldn't we be calling it african-american and irish-american rice?
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All rice has, or should have, an equal place on this planet no matter what it's colour or physical dimentions. Shame on you bigots and haters. |
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As usual, we forget all about the Native American rice. Driven off their own land and now only available if you have a reservation.
Hmmph. |
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Try frying the brown rice after its cooked. I put veggies in with mine, and the kids now prefer brown rice over the white rice. Its a completly different texture and taste. As I am sure you know :)
Or... try frying the white rice BEFORE it is cooked. Simply brown the dry rice with a splash of olive oil in the bottom of the pot you are going to cook it in. Then cook it normally. This gives it a different taste, closer to brown rice without the texture difference as much. |
I have a very tasty brown rice recipe. Saute chopped broccoli in olive oil until tender, then add cooked brown rice and sprinkle liberally with parmesan cheese - I like a LOT of cheese. Also, I cook the brown rice in beef broth and add several shakes of Maggi seasoning. You can make it really rich by adding some butter to the pan when you add the rice.
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Eh: risottos.
I like cooking quinoa with chicken stock. Makes it quite like a pilaf. |
I love quinoa!
I am happy to eat it with raw veggies. Must put it on the shopping list. Oh, except Mum & I are sharing evening meals and she don't like it. Damn her and her grain and pulse prejudices! I love the chew-factor of brown rice. As with quinoa (although without the protein) I am happy to have it as the main ingredient. I'm honestly not a fan of white rice. It could disappear into Room 101 and I would not miss it. I don't hate it, like bananas or peanut butter, but I would not choose to eat it. Given my druthers I have a naan with curry and any bread option available with chilli. And prawn crackers with Chinese. Nom nom. |
White rice!!!!!
MMMM I have always loved white rice........ I dont (And havent ever) liked Brown...... |
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