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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 31, 2012, 02:21:55 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11578437
Oh my.
You know, I'm not kidding when I insist that Lu is an improvement of several magnitudes over, as the driving force behind the cooking and baking primitives, than the sullen hate-filled Mrs. Alfred Packer had been.
cbayer (105,014 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Lucinda's perfect rice
I have struggled with rice for a long time and sought the advice of Lucinda.
Last night I made it exactly as she instructed and it was perfect.
Here are her instructions:
1 1/2 cup water
1 cup rice
1/2 tsp salt
1 tablespoon of butter
Put it all in a pot, bring it to a boil and give it a quick stir, then turn it down to low, cover and leave alone for 20* minutes.
At 20 minutes, take off the lid for just a few seconds to let steam escape, and turn off the heat. Recover right away, let sit for 5 more minutes, then fluff.
*It can go as long as 25 minutes before you let the steam out if you like really dry rice.
I do use jasmine rice instead of basmati, but thats our preference, and I cook it in a regular stainless saucepan with glass lid though the video suggests a heavier pan.
Thank you, Lucinda. Probably most people know this already, but I was doing it all wrong.
Lucinda (14,842 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. I'm so glad you like the way it turns out!
It's always perfect for me when I do it this way. Not one failure ever. Nice and fluffy.
cbayer (105,014 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. It was perfect, Lucinda, and I am so pleased.
I served it with a great thai chicken curry that I made.
We will be eating it again tonight, and I can not thank you enough for the lesson.
:cheers:
Lucinda (14,842 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. I found the technique on the web a while back...just passing it along!
Have a great dinner!
hobbit709 (21,918 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. If I'm making rice for a chicken dish.
I cook the rice in chicken broth instead of water.
pinto (92,403 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Congrats! Nothing like really good rice. My disasters usually end up in soup.
Or mixed in the dog dish if my sister's Dachshund is here.
HopeHoops (29,981 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. As Mollie Katzen said - "You don't check in on it every two minutes to see if it's still there."
It has to steam.
northoftheborder (2,381 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Can't remember where I heard this hint, maybe here, but I have great success with....
...the suggestion to leave the top on the rice when done for 5-10 minutes. Somehow, the rice is much fluffier and less sticky when I do this. I never knew this hint, and I've been cooking for ages and ages and ages!!!!!
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Rumors continue to swirl that DUmmy Lucinda is in fact a mole.
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Rumors continue to swirl that DUmmy Lucinda is in fact a mole.
Well, Lu, who reminds one very much of a kindly old grandmother whose body's too large to hold the love she has for others, manages to illuminate us about food without injecting any hate, rage, bitterness, spite, and Godphobia into the discussion.
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Well, Lu, who reminds one very much of a kindly old grandmother whose body's too large to hold the love she has for others, manages to illuminate us about food without injecting any hate, rage, bitterness, spite, and Godphobia into the discussion.
Well, now, that pretty much cinches it.
A real person with those attributes could not participate in a site that's based on hate, rage, bitterness, spite, and Godphobia.
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Well, now, that pretty much cinches it.
A real person with those attributes could not participate in a site that's based on hate, rage, bitterness, spite, and Godphobia.
This isn't going to get franksolich any brownie points with the fecund grasswire primitive, who's linked franksolich to everything from her own failure to open a pie-and-jam shoppe to murder of the red round one to getting the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive fired from her job to creating www.electstevedawes.com to driving Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, away from Skins's island.....
.....but really, Lu on her bad days is so much better than Mrs. Alfred Packer ever was on her good days.
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Skul's rice recipe...
water
rice
heat
Eat when soft. Hey, it works for me.
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Fluffy rice is for fags, just sayin'
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Skul's rice recipe...
water
rice
heat
Eat when soft. Hey, it works for me.
Gotta add a pat of butter to it when it's done. Separates the kernels.
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Add 1/4 cup of water and its the cooking instructions of the bag of rice! Genius!
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Gotta add a pat of butter to it when it's done. Separates the kernels.
Nah. Then the stuff falls all over the place when you try to eat it.
It's a lot easier when it's all stuck together. :-)
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Fluffy rice is for fags, just sayin'
Sticky rice. Dash of vinegar. Cover and cool over night.
VIOLA!!!! Sushi rice. Or use for fried rice. Yeah I know--old habits die hard.
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Sticky rice. Dash of vinegar. Cover and cool over night.
VIOLA!!!! Sushi rice. Or use for fried rice. Yeah I know--old habits die hard.
Damn straight skippy.
Use some hot n spicy vinegar or soy sauce to add a spice to life . Although I usually steam my rice.
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Can these sooper jeanuses figure out how to make toast?
Rice? Really rice?
Humanity would be so much improved if the lot of them (-moles) were eliminated from the gene pool.
RICE? My God.
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Nah. Then the stuff falls all over the place when you try to eat it.
It's a lot easier when it's all stuck together. :-)
Yep, I like the sticky rice and I eat a lot of rice.
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Well, Lu, who reminds one very much of a kindly old grandmother whose body's too large to hold the love she has for others, manages to illuminate us about food without injecting any hate, rage, bitterness, spite, and Godphobia into the discussion.
Awwwww, she sounds sweet.
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Awwwww, she sounds sweet.
That's probably why Chrome Dome and Sherlock grasswire don't hang around in the cooking and baking forum much any more.
They don't want a gracious hostess who's sweet; they want a hostess who Hates.
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That's probably why Chrome Dome and Sherlock grasswire don't hang around in the cooking and baking forum much any more.
They don't want a gracious hostess who's sweet; they want a hostess who Hates.
Having so much hate isn't good at all for people, you end up getting a mean look on your face.
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Can these sooper jeanuses figure out how to make toast?
Rice? Really rice?
Humanity would be so much improved if the lot of them (-moles) were eliminated from the gene pool.
RICE? My God.
I know, the staple food of about 2/3rds of the world, many of whom cook it in a pot over an open fire, and the Dummies are so impressed that they've found the "secret" to making it.
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Awwwww, she sounds sweet.
Franksolich has got to be the nicest person on the internet.
Might be the nicest person I've ever met.
I try to be like Franksolish. I only succeed for 1/3 of the day.
After I wake up and check CC for the latest DUmp news, my nice takes a hike.
To see why, go here... www.electstevedawes.com
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so, they gush over themselfs because thay can boil water and cook rice. wow.
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so, they gush over themselfs because thay can boil water and cook rice. wow.
Most gifted and talented people in the history of the universe, just ask them, can't figure out the intricacies of boiling water and measuring. Is it any wonder they are life's losers? NO.