PICK A STARCH: Pasta/Noodles vs Potatoes vs Rice

p'daydo

Don't much but when I do it's far more likely to be noodles.

pasta, especially if we're including noodles in there.

gnocchi, the best of both pasta and rice!

um potato rather

but seriously I eat more rice than either of the two.

brown rice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1ddrT7HPc

Oh please, potato in the twinkling of an eye (and half a stick of butter).

i hate potatoes.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CvmWwMISlO4/TIuxK3LZSwI/AAAAAAAACUA/Q9y0Iy76Nz8/s1600/605a6401b435151b_Paula_deen_quiz.xlarger.jpg

^^^favorite ingredient is the potato

she is also made of potatoes iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTapJYlawU

cant choose wont choose

potatoes can be many things and eaten at every meal

how is this even a contest

i have an entire cookbook devoted to potatoes fyi

i agree but rice

gotta be taters imo.

I did cook these potatoes once that we're very tasty, this is harder the more I think about it.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dbn91hwsi7Q/TiHd6dUaoVI/AAAAAAAABMQ/Ofni_B1ixqs/s1600/5938982647_8f34a6474d.jpg

RFI: delicious ways to cook potatoes that don't involve frying

bread > pasta > potatoes > rice

rice can be many things too fyi

Noodles are definitely included in the pasta category, selfheadslap for not mentioning that.

I don't know why I started a poll question that I can't answer, but this is impossible.

like who drinks potato milk? NOBODY

I think I eat all 3 about equally? I am eating (halal cart-ified) rice right now but I think that's the easiest to rule out. pasta makes better dishes, but potatoes in their various greasy brunch forms = voting potatoes

for nutritional soundness & overall utility: rice
for TEXTURE & just b/c I really enjoy cooking w/ it: pasta
for sheer deliciousness (when fried & heavily salted): potatoes

I'm torn.

I would imagine either the russians or the irish have invented potato milk and still occasionally drink it

dyao:

mashed
roasted
au gratin
scalloped

but rice milk is terrible!

http://www.oocities.org/athens/academy/1974/pictures/pictures/moloko.jpg

^potato milk, in a fashion

Congee, rice balls, rice pudding, that ball of sticky rice I put at the bottom of a bowl of tom kha
Baked potatoes, home fries, french fries, garlic mashed taters
luscious slurpy noodles in chicken soup, pad thai, fettucine with clam sauce

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

where do rice noodles fit into this equation?

rice milk is awesome you mad

it is, how you say, a DREAM

rice noodles fall under 'potato'

where do rice noodles fit into this equation?

excellent question btw

God I love all of them. f I HAD to pick one it would be pasta. I love pasta a lot. I could probably eat it every day and never get sick of it. Mmmmmmm. Glorious pasta.

I'd say rice noodles are more noodle than rice, but the floor is open to arguments

Starches are the best.

QUINOA

would have chosen bread if that was an option; failing that, rice (which has breakfast capacities unfairly overlooked by many)

which one of these can also make a delicious cereal AND desert

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2394065351_f84cc9d60d.jpg

potatoes have breakfast capacities far beyond what rice can offer

rice, easy

I am way into potatoes and have at two points in my life practically lived on them, they're marvelously versatile and a joy to cook with. So useful - water from boiling potatoes can be used in bread or in stock - one could spend all day listing the uses for the potato.

But rice is greater. Voted rice

Hoping for a 3-way tie tbh

Rice pudding, home fries, bowl of pho with noodles all valid breakfast options

I don't think we've had this specific question before

not quite:
Rice Vs Noodles

RFI: delicious ways to cook potatoes that don't involve frying

― dayo, Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:16 PM (13 minutes ago)

almost all of the good ways fyi

Aimless, you philistine! Different pasta shapes affect the taste and the way they carry sauces and other add-ons!

― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:54 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I would really like a study done on this. spaghetti-o's win, right?

voting pasta cause its my favorite starch for eating AND cooking

i make a mean rice pilaf but otherwise am woefully inconsistent. pasta is easier imo

Depends on the sauce or what you're putting in it, dayo

what's the best pasta shape for picking up chunky tomato sauce?

but I consider that the various add ons and sauces are not inherent, but exigient, phenomena

Rice maybe served plain but it is almost always eaten in conjuction w/something else, like bread to a Frenchman. Potatoes may be eaten unadorned if need be, but I have never seen a potato loving ppl serve them that way if they have their druthers and whether it's broth or sauce or meatballs or whatever, if we're going to platonize pasta/noodles, they should be considered with and not without whatever inevitable else they'll be served with even if it's just salt and butter.

dayo, maybe penne or orrechiete; some kind of pasta where the chunks can snuggle. Finer sauces are better with finer noodles like spaghetti or fettucine. I'm very far from being an expert and most of my Italian cooking is vegetables.

Which is funny, because every mom in the USA for the last 50 years has put chunky tomato sauce and/or bolognese sauce over spaghetti.

In the interests of full disclosure, M. White and I have "a past" and philistine is not the worst he has called me. (scowls at M. White, bares teeth, growls)

Furthermore, I am quite happy eating plain brown basmati rice as a side dish and do so fairly often.

chunky tomato sauce w/ spaghetti is such a lose. I'm always left with a big puddle of sawce.

I would eat a plain baked or roasted fingerling with just salt if it was of good stock to begin with

Real bolognese isn't very chunky and as with their pizza, Americans sauce too much.

I would eat a plain baked or roasted fingerling with just salt

Did this last weekend. It was delectable.

That puddle of sauce is the payoff, if you have a nice garlicky crust of bread for dipping/wiping.

Real bolognese isn't very chunky and as with their pizza, Americans sauce too much.

otm x 3

if you have sauce left other you either had too much sauce or not enough bread

man it is rare that I have spaghetti with bread

this is a relevant thread btw

PASTA SANDWICH

I like sauce better than pasta. The sauce (plus cheese) is the GOOD part, the pasta is just a vehicle for it.

Dayo, maybe use a potato?

mashed potatoes and tomato sauce... with pasta. has this been attempted before??

I like to like my pasta and I mistrust any dish where its so smothered that it's just a vehicle. I've been eating a lot more whole wheat pasta and soba recently, too.

mashed potatoes and tomato sauce... with pasta. has this been attempted before??

Some college dorm, surely

More than any of these, though, I eat bread (for cheese) and I'm really liking farro a lot these days.

can pasta handle sweet as well as rice can? never fond of pasta in ice cream/jelly.

There's no need for any sweet starches, that's what ice cream is for.

sweet noodle kugel

The very idea of it repulses me.

sweet noodle kegels

There's no need for any sweet starches

my coconut rice pudding disagrees completely

Rice pudd totally grosses me out. So does flan, for that matter, so does that classic French dessert with carmelized sugar on top, so does any vanilla-and-egg flavored smushy thing.

http://epicute.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/oeufs_costarde.jpg

i did the pasta tasting menu at babbo once and they had an amazing pastry-like sweet pasta dessert dish

i didn't think that jimmy fallon ice cream with potato chip balls in it would be yummy, but it was. but spaghetti in my horchata...? nope.

Fuck I don't want to be all Cpt Lorax and try and make a choice in this poll 10 mins too late, so have to choose now.

It's potatoes vs rice/risotto for me here. Rice/risotto is the food of Gods, and I couldn't choose between those two as a mere eating commodity. So, thinking of my grandparents who busted their asses during famine trying to cultivate and reap potatoes, I will vote that, in honor of them.

(but no man ever take away my risotto from me...)

Hoping for a 3-way tie tbh

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:30 PM (1 week ago)

me too. i think i voted for pasta but i literally live off of all 3.

so wrong

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

huh that was weird. I saw the results before the System posted.

it's obviously the potato

Slightly surprised.

tubers 4 lyfe

http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/3/31/Swamp_Thing_Vol_2_43.jpg

I'm a potato partisan but but this showing for rice is ridiculous

It got my vote.

WmC: Coconut rice pudding sounds really yummy. That is one thing I forgot, you can make sweets from rice but not potatoes, unless it's that sweet potato, brown sugar thing I am not a fan of.

Yeah WMC I know you posted the coconut rice pudding recipe once before but I don't remember where. Pls link again?

weird i thought ilx would go for rice big

I think I started from this one --

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Coconut-Rice-Pudding-109236

-- but fiddled with it and made it a bit easier. Basically I use 2 cups of cooked rice, 4 cups of milk, and a can of Coco Lopez cream of coconut, with a pinch of salt. Simmer together low and slow for 30-40 minutes until it's thick, add the vanilla at the end, as well as a bit of cinnamon if you like. Looking at some other recipes online, I might leave out the cinnamon and throw in a small chunk of fresh ginger while it's cooking next time.

potatoes (not good plain)

― remy bean

this is some crazy talk! you are obviously not putting enough salt in your boiling water. plain rice/pasta, even salted, doesn't have the depth of flavour that a plain potato has.