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Skriven 2014-03-22 20:07:43 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11160 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: rice  was: Books and reading
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Hi Nancy,

 NB> buy it  RH>> in bulk (which is most of the time), I'll measure it out
 NB> in set
 NB>  RH>> portions, bag them and put them in another container in the
 NB> pantry.  NB>> Makes sense... especially from bulk....  :)

 RH> I could just leave it as bulk but figure this saves a bit of time and
 RH> is also neater than having to measure each time I cook some up. (G)

 NB> I do similar with oats for oatmeal... especially since at the moment
 NB> we are each eating it as single portions... just add to a cup of
 NB> water, and cook away... ;)

Steve measures his oatmeal out from a snap lock box, then cooks it. It's
a bother for me to have to figure portion, then carb amounts that early
in the morning so I buy instant oatmeal for me. Nutrition counts are
already figured so I don't have to do the maths. (G)

 NB>  RH>> Come time to cook it, I just have to dump contents of one or
 NB> more bags  RH>> into the rice cooker, add water to the right level and
 NB> punch the start  RH>> button. And, of course, wait for it to finish
 NB> cooking. (G)
 NB>  NB>> No rice cooker here... so it's either regular pot on stove or
 NB> nuke  NB>> it...

 RH> I've been using a rice cooker now for about 15 years--on my 3rd,
 RH> always upgrading--and would rather do it that way. Bought some brown
 RH> Minute Rice when we were in temporary lodging with a small kitchen area
 RH> in Savannah. Big mistake--it didn't taste that good and it was more of
 RH> a pain to cook than "toss into rice cooker, add water, punch a button
 RH> and forget" as I was used to. But, we lived to tell about it. (G)

 NB> I would think so.  ;)   Only thing I've used the boxed "instant" for
 NB> (generally brown, also) has been to toss into something at close to
 NB> the last minute to take up extra (generally unexpected) liquid... But
 NB> that
 NB> doesn't happen enough lately to justify having any on hand...
 NB> especially since it tends to get infested or go stale long before I
 NB> need it
 NB> again... (G)  I just keep the regular brown rice on hand for cooking,
 NB> and the microwave brown rice in the freezer for when I should have
 NB> thought about the regular an hour ago...  (G)  I've not had counter
 NB> space for any extra appliances, anyway... nor cupboard space to store
 NB> them off-counter...

We've got small appliances shoehorned in all over the kitchen. We also
bought a Rubbermaid (?) cabinet unit to store most of the lesser used
ones. The ones used more often are in the cabinets under the counters
except for the George Foreman grill. Haven't found a good place to stow
it and we use it often enough that it stays by the stove. Of course the
Keurig, Kitchen Aid and toaster stay out all the time.

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Ruth
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