With food prices headed for Low Earth Orbit, I'd quietly get it to someone who needs it.
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What do you do when you come face to face with an old nemesis?
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If there is a lot of rice and unopened packages, just donate it to a food bank, a senior services place, or something similar. Do a search online and find out who is collecting food.
I love Basmati rice with a little butter.
I love Basmati rice with a little butter.
When confronted with too much rice, start more threads on TB. That's what most people do right?
Nonono - make one of those transparent resin bass bodies, filled with rice. Every time you play you'll be dominating your nemisis.
Donate to homeless shelters. Prepare it and hand out to homeless. Just don't throw it away.
During Covid, my brother gave me 200 pounds of rice, so that I could survive if Armageddon occurred. He also gave his girlfriend 200 pounds. Unfortunately he piled hers in front of her garage. He called Me and asked me to go retrieve hers. Now I had 400 pounds . I gave a few 25 pound bags to friends who like rice. The 4 50 pound bags I removed from his girlfriend's driveway all went to a local senior center. They also took probably 6 25 pound bags. Getting rid of rice is a piece of cake,
OK, I did not have "Talkbass thread about rice" on my bingo card for this week.
If you don't want it, +1 that you can donate it.
But "filler food?" Uh uh. Lettuce is filler food. That stuff is just crunchy water for you to pretend you're eating something. Zero nutrients.
Actually, rice is miracle food. It's pretty much the single most efficient way to get calories out of the soil to feed a population with. In southeast Asia, there were medieval "rice kingdoms" built on the stuff. It was so efficient compared to other forms of agriculture, that rulers' power was measured not by the amount of land they had to farm, as in most parts of the world, but by the amount of labor they could mobilize to work the rice paddies. When there's famine somewhere in the world, one of the main things aid agencies send there is bags of rice. It's just that efficient.
If you look at cuisines from those parts of the world, the key is that you don't eat rice just plain by itself. Like most starches, it's a platform for spices and sauces. When I'm cooking it as a side, I'll usually at least cook it with some bouillon of whatever the meat is, to match it. My mother-in-law was from the Phillippines, and there chocolate rice was a favorite (I'll admit I never really took to chocolate rice myself, but it shows the flexibility of the stuff).
If you don't want it, +1 that you can donate it.
But "filler food?" Uh uh. Lettuce is filler food. That stuff is just crunchy water for you to pretend you're eating something. Zero nutrients.
Actually, rice is miracle food. It's pretty much the single most efficient way to get calories out of the soil to feed a population with. In southeast Asia, there were medieval "rice kingdoms" built on the stuff. It was so efficient compared to other forms of agriculture, that rulers' power was measured not by the amount of land they had to farm, as in most parts of the world, but by the amount of labor they could mobilize to work the rice paddies. When there's famine somewhere in the world, one of the main things aid agencies send there is bags of rice. It's just that efficient.
If you look at cuisines from those parts of the world, the key is that you don't eat rice just plain by itself. Like most starches, it's a platform for spices and sauces. When I'm cooking it as a side, I'll usually at least cook it with some bouillon of whatever the meat is, to match it. My mother-in-law was from the Phillippines, and there chocolate rice was a favorite (I'll admit I never really took to chocolate rice myself, but it shows the flexibility of the stuff).
Trains are efficient too, but I wouldn't drive one to work.
I was never a fan of rice, but I tolerated it. Hated cleaning the pan afterward, though.
Until I read somewhere that a good way to keep the rice from sticking to the pan is to drop some oil in the water before heating it.
The first time I tried using oil, I forgot how much to add, so I added a couple of tablespoonfuls [edit: of olive oil]. Probably more than I was supposed to.
But:
Not only did the oll make cleanup effortless, but it also made the rice actually taste good. Now I have rice one or two times a week, versus once every couple of months.
Until I read somewhere that a good way to keep the rice from sticking to the pan is to drop some oil in the water before heating it.
The first time I tried using oil, I forgot how much to add, so I added a couple of tablespoonfuls [edit: of olive oil]. Probably more than I was supposed to.
But:
Not only did the oll make cleanup effortless, but it also made the rice actually taste good. Now I have rice one or two times a week, versus once every couple of months.
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I used to not really like rice either. Until my deer departed mother in law showed me how to cook it properly AND which bag to buy. 3 Ladies Jasmine rice is the best there is and you can't convince me otherwise.
Use those boxes of rice as white elephant and other kinds of gag gifts.
Nemesis foods for me? I absolutely will not eat lima beans, celery, organ meats, or surströmming for any reason. There are plenty of other foods I don't like but I can still drive'em into me if I need to.
Nemesis foods for me? I absolutely will not eat lima beans, celery, organ meats, or surströmming for any reason. There are plenty of other foods I don't like but I can still drive'em into me if I need to.
To the OP:
Maybe donate it to someone in need of food, or give it to a friend that likes rice?
To add to the rice discussion:
The best rice comes from Northeast China, there's no contest. Sometimes you could mix it with a bit of beans or Thai rice for even more flavour.
There are infinite ways to cook with rice. A few that comes to my mind: steam rice with pineapple, fry rice with smoked meat, or grind it into flours and make rice noodles. Overall rice has a more neutral taste than wheat, so there's more room for the improvisation of other accompanying food.
Maybe donate it to someone in need of food, or give it to a friend that likes rice?
To add to the rice discussion:
The best rice comes from Northeast China, there's no contest. Sometimes you could mix it with a bit of beans or Thai rice for even more flavour.
There are infinite ways to cook with rice. A few that comes to my mind: steam rice with pineapple, fry rice with smoked meat, or grind it into flours and make rice noodles. Overall rice has a more neutral taste than wheat, so there's more room for the improvisation of other accompanying food.
