Brown rice is why I'm not a vegetarian. I tried being one as a teenager and every book was like "bla bla with brown rice" and I hated it so much I gave up.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 25 May 2023 04:16 (eleven months ago) link
My mistake in hindsight was buying british hippy cookbooks, but anyway.
i'm not exactly allergic to ghee but very much ghee-intolerant. just the smell of it makes me instantly nauseous. one of my friends relentlessly proselytizing for ghee as a magic elixir (he's a bit of a 'new age healer') has not helped. especially since i was standing in his kitchen as he prepared some during one of these sermons.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 25 May 2023 18:52 (eleven months ago) link
i mixed long and short grain brown rice with wild rice, i think each variety required a different cooking time and water ratio. after cooking it in a covered pot with a measured amount of water didn't work out, i boiled it like pasta for a couple of minutes and strained it with acceptable results. i'm a basmati guy anyhow, rice blends aren't worth it.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 25 May 2023 18:58 (eleven months ago) link
I LOVE wild rice (which isn't actually rice) but we're talking 45 minutes there and it's expensive
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:23 (eleven months ago) link
lol k3v
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 25 May 2023 19:48 (eleven months ago) link
Slight off topic but whats the deal with ghee? I keep a tub in the fridge, but its thusly impossible to use as it goes rock hard.
I read South Asian ppl just keep it on the bench in runny form, but wont it go rancid like butter would?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 26 May 2023 00:32 (eleven months ago) link
i keep it at room temp, lasts forever
― call all destroyer, Friday, 26 May 2023 00:36 (eleven months ago) link
I keep it in the fridge and have developed various techniques with spoons and knives for getting what I need but yes it should keep at room temp for a good while
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 26 May 2023 00:57 (eleven months ago) link
i think because many of the dairy solids aren't in there it lasts sort of like oil would?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 May 2023 05:35 (eleven months ago) link
I once threw out some extremely dodgy looking ghee, it had been hidden behind other stuff at the back of a kitchen cupboard for at least a few years though. It keeps fine on the shelf for months ime
― calzino, Friday, 26 May 2023 06:38 (eleven months ago) link
Huh ok I will try keeping it room temp. I like the flavour of it compared to just oil in my curries.
I'm still trying to perfect my curry base masala (the whole spices/onions fried down/garlicginger paste/tomates and spice powders/fry into pasty sauce step). I cant get it quite right and I think cooking down the onions/using more than I am might be why.
But! That is not a rice topic.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 26 May 2023 06:57 (eleven months ago) link
ime temperature doesn't turn butter rancid, exposure to air does
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 May 2023 09:08 (eleven months ago) link
oh and cooking brown rice is mostly just adding extra water in the rice cooker, also brown rice is delicious
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 May 2023 09:10 (eleven months ago) link
made fried rice last night with leftover brown rice, grilled chicken + green onions. didn’t touch the ghee jar :-(
― brimstead, Friday, 26 May 2023 14:18 (eleven months ago) link