Rice

Rice Salad

June 1, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

A friend invited me over for lunch the other day and served a delicious rice salad made with a mix of wild and long grain rice, cooked chicken, feta cheese, red onions and a lemon and olive oil dressing. It was really good! I had some friends over for dinner on Saturday and wanted to [...]

Spanish or Mexican Rice

September 27, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

A red rice goes nicely with Mexican food and in the past I’ve relied on this recipe, which is good. I wanted to kick it up a notch though and was making  a larger batch than normal for a wine tasting party so I found this version in one my old standby cookbooks, Desperation Entertaining!.  [...]

A new way to cook rice

April 14, 2005 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I’ve read this idea plenty of times and finally set out to try it. Rather than carefully measuring the water for rice, bringing it to boil then turning it way down low and cooking the rice, I brought a large pot of water to boil and added the rice. I let it boil, stirring occasionally [...]

Rice–Plain old white rice

May 25, 2004 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

When I was growing up we almost always had potatoes with dinner. Sometimes we’d have a baked spaghetti and meat sauce kind of thing, or maybe lasagna, but the primary carb was definitely potatoes. Boiled, baked, mashed, scalloped, fried. And they were good! But I remember plain boiled white rice as a rarity, something to [...]

Coconut Rice with Red Beans

April 7, 2004 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I made the Coconut Rice and Beans from The Minimalist Cooks Dinner by Mark Bittman tonight, but the ratios seemed off to me so I adjusted things without even waiting. The recipe in the book calls for 1 and 1/2 cups of rice and I suspect it is supposed to be 1/2 cup. Here’s what [...]

Rice Pudding

December 2, 2003 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Another favorite from The Supper Book. I’ve been searching for a great rice pudding recipe for some time. It has to be creamy but not pure mush, sweet, and rich-tasting. The last recipe I tried was a crockpot recipe and it was horrid. First, there was way too much milk for the small amount of [...]