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I never liked minute rice, or Uncle Ben's (was he canceled?), I much prefer regular rice. It usually takes as long to cook as my steak or hamburger and tastes better. I could never get Minute Rice right. I cook though, I almost never buy anything but the raw ingredients for food.
I never liked Minute Rice either. Rice from a box is a gloppy mess. I prefer to cook my own rice, whether Texas long grain, or the usual short grain rice. I don't like Basmati rice either, it tastes to me like somebody sprayed perfume on it.
Minute Rice was the only thing Ma Paco made when I was growing up. I was so used to that brand that I didn't much care for "real" rice on the few occasions I had an opportunity to eat it. She usually served it with country-style steak and poured gravy all over it. Later, when I grew up and moved away from home, I started eating regularly-prepared rice dishes and came to love practically all of them: brown rice, curry rice, Spanish rice, rice and black beans, rice and red beans, rice pilaf, you name it. To this day, rice is a main staple of the Paco household; we eat it at least three or four times a week.
The last time I had Minute Rice, incidentally, it struck me as tasting like moist confetti.
There was one other rice dish I got to eat when I was young and went to visit Grandma Paco. She would make it with milk. It tended to be somewhat gooey, but it was rich and delicious, and we almost always had some kind of beef or turkey gravy to go with it.
I never liked minute rice, or Uncle Ben's (was he canceled?), I much prefer regular rice.
ReplyDeleteIt usually takes as long to cook as my steak or hamburger and tastes better.
I could never get Minute Rice right.
I cook though, I almost never buy anything but the raw ingredients for food.
I miss the 1980's.
ReplyDeleteI never liked Minute Rice either. Rice from a box is a gloppy mess. I prefer to cook my own rice, whether Texas long grain, or the usual short grain rice. I don't like Basmati rice either, it tastes to me like somebody sprayed perfume on it.
ReplyDeleteMinute Rice was the only thing Ma Paco made when I was growing up. I was so used to that brand that I didn't much care for "real" rice on the few occasions I had an opportunity to eat it. She usually served it with country-style steak and poured gravy all over it. Later, when I grew up and moved away from home, I started eating regularly-prepared rice dishes and came to love practically all of them: brown rice, curry rice, Spanish rice, rice and black beans, rice and red beans, rice pilaf, you name it. To this day, rice is a main staple of the Paco household; we eat it at least three or four times a week.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I had Minute Rice, incidentally, it struck me as tasting like moist confetti.
There was one other rice dish I got to eat when I was young and went to visit Grandma Paco. She would make it with milk. It tended to be somewhat gooey, but it was rich and delicious, and we almost always had some kind of beef or turkey gravy to go with it.