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Post by barbieq25 on Oct 27, 2011 21:37:23 GMT
Never had any problems with clumpiness but then if I want it to separate I rinse it in hot water & drain well before serving.
We all have some great ways of working. Love Basmati rice too.
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Post by TheBad1 on Oct 27, 2011 21:58:15 GMT
I've always worked on 400ml of water to about 120 grammes of rice. I'll have to try the cup method.
Tonight it was leek parcels: Chicken filled with cheddar cheese and mushrooms, wrapped in pancetta with leek wrapped around it and baked. With chips (fries) grlled tomatoes and runner beans.
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Post by Helen on Oct 27, 2011 23:52:49 GMT
I tested out the different methods and it seems adding a little olive oil works and not opening the lid, which I tend to do at times.
More testing tomorrow.
Ate cabbage with pieces of fried pork--one of my favorite foods at home.
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Post by lancemcknight on Oct 28, 2011 22:43:34 GMT
One night, my wife and I went to a gourmet pantry shop to learn how to make sushi, and one thing the chef used was a rice cooker. Said it was a time-saver and can hold enormous amount of rice and water. Unfortunately, can't use just any kind of rice, it had to be a specific kind of rice, but I had a blast making my own sushi. I love sushi!
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Post by Helen on Oct 29, 2011 19:30:50 GMT
@lance: I never tried sushi how they make in restaurants since we don't eat fish from stores or in restaurants that are either prepared or not alive(due to our beliefs). We get live ones in the store and they drain the blood and gut and scale the fish in front of us (for extra money, of course). We, however, eat salted fish (similar to sushi I'm guessing) that is prepared with onion and coriander seed and peppercorns for taste. Kind of like this: HERE
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Post by TheBad1 on Oct 29, 2011 20:54:33 GMT
Back to textures ... I love fish but the thought of eating raw fish turns on me. Even if it is cured or fermented in some way. The same as steak ... I tried it 'blue' once - it came back a lot quicker than it went down Tonight I had a plain old cheese and onion sandwich. Lush it was too
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Post by lancemcknight on Oct 30, 2011 13:56:43 GMT
Sushi doesn't always include fish. It is mostly made of seaweed (that's the wrapper) and rice. You can add vegetables, chicken, fish, shrimp, or have raw meat (not recommended). My wife actually was the one that introduced me to sushi, and we both love it! People have the misconception that sushi mean raw fish, that is not necessarily true. It is entirely optional.
Last night, we went out to a Chinese restaurant, and I ordered my customary House Fried Rice, which includes pork, shrimp, vegetables, and of course fried rice! This morning, I had coffee (a must) with toasted peanut butter and apple butter sandwich and a side of banana! Yum, yum.
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Post by venicet on Oct 30, 2011 18:18:22 GMT
great, thanks Lance! Now I want Chinese food! And I just made a HUGE pot of spaghetti sauce! LOL
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Post by barbieq25 on Oct 31, 2011 9:51:23 GMT
Tandoori chicken pizza (that does sounds wrong eh?) with a tomatoes, capsicum, cucumber, beetroot leaves, lettuce, chives, parsley, cinnamon basil, mushrooms & an assortment of radishes or as hubby calls them radii.
Lance the sushi we see here is mostly cooked foods & looks most appetising. I love the wrappers.
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Post by TheBad1 on Nov 1, 2011 22:26:07 GMT
@ Lance ... I guess I showed my worldly ignorance of things I've never tried ;D @ Barbie' ... that pizza sounds nice. East meets West ... Fusion cooking @ it's most extreme I love radii ... nice and peppery in a salad. I used to grow Nastursium flowers just to eat them for the peppery taste Funny to think you're having salads and we're starting to have hearty winter meals Tonight it was Devilled Pork (with extra diced onion, no currry powder) with mashed potatoes, peas and carrots.
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 2, 2011 10:00:26 GMT
The pork chops sound great. Sometimes I spread them with apricot or plum or ginger jam & bung them in the oven to bake. Saves having to watch them & turn them. I do the same with sausages (bangers or snags).
Forgot about nasturtiums-I like to suck out the sweet nectar & then eat the flowers. The seeds are great too.
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Post by Helen on Nov 2, 2011 21:43:45 GMT
Oh my gosh! Pork chops or anything to do with pork sounds soooo good.
We have an inside joke with my family (a Russian-Jewish man, like us, started this joke) that whenever we go to an International store--one in particular that sells mostly European food, we ask for Jewish bacon. They are confused when we ask them for it, but we explain to them that it's actually beef prepared in the style salted bacon would be. Yum!
I ate mushroom soup and beef stroganoff. I ate an ice cream right before so I wasn't that hungry. Darn!
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Post by lancemcknight on Nov 3, 2011 22:21:09 GMT
Collards green, sausage, and potatoes. Plus it's a bit spicy. Cooked by my next-door neighbor. Delicious!
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 4, 2011 8:16:43 GMT
I had to look up collard greens - reckon they'd be pretty yummy.
We are about to have yellow butter beans (from the garden) Italian chicken sausages (baked) & Italian stone ground bread & boiled potatoes. Hubby is cooking! Yay!
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Post by TheBad1 on Nov 4, 2011 21:42:19 GMT
I had to look up collard greens too ;D Apart from broccoli I like all members of the brassica family. (Cabbage, cauliflowers and sprouts) Mmmmm ... cauliflower cheese, mashed potato and bacon sounds like a plan for a meal one night next week. Thanks Lance Tonight it was something people either love or hate ;D Lambs liver (pig is tooo bitter) in a leek and onion gravy (with a few good splashes of balsamic vinegar), mashed potatoes, peas and carrots ... it was offally good
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Post by Helen on Nov 5, 2011 1:29:25 GMT
Oh, come on! I always get hungry reading this thread, but you all give me such great ideas of what to cook.
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 5, 2011 9:44:50 GMT
I am glad the food was offally good...I'd have eaten everything but the peas. I read in a magazine that one mother called brussel sprouts fairy cabbages. I don't care what you call them, the taste generates a gag reflex... Must check to see how my leeks are growing. I love broccoli. Hubby roasted some cauliflower like you do other veges. Interesting texture & very yummy. I thought he was quite mad when he told me It makes me hungry too Helen. I think I might go have some ice cream & tinned lychees or maybe some fresh mango...
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Post by blackpenny on Nov 5, 2011 15:26:49 GMT
We always cut an X in the bottom of brussels sprouts before we cook them. They taste better that way, hubby says it's because it lets the heat in to cook the core instead of cooking from the outside in. Whatever. They don't taste as bitter when we do that.
Liver - don't love it. Tried it once and haven't brave enough to try it again.
Tonight we're going to a friend's for English style fish and chips. And probably lots of wine. ;D
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Post by Helen on Nov 5, 2011 19:23:30 GMT
Speaking of liver, I love it. BUT, it has to be cooked in a special way. What I do, is cut the beef liver into cubes and fry them with onion until they brown and are ready to eat. I also add diced carrots and fry that with the liver. After that, I put it in dough (pizza dough is pretty good) and fold over the meat and pinch the top. Like this: HEREIt's so good!
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 5, 2011 22:58:58 GMT
Ah! Helen, I do something like that with bread dough filled with mince, onion & whatever veges diced fince, soy sauce & rice vermicilli. A Russian woman taught me how. We then deep fry it. Truly yummy.
BP, I must try the X for my hubby but I still will not try them. Plenty of other veges ;D
We had fish & chips last night at the seaside town of Yeppoon after a long walk on the beach with the dogs.
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Post by Helen on Nov 6, 2011 0:14:28 GMT
Yep. The Russian people are famous for making those. I love the ones with mashed scallions and hard-boiled eggs--everything chopped and the scallions salted.
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Post by lancemcknight on Nov 6, 2011 15:40:33 GMT
Liver?
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