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[Solifuge]

Minor sad, minor sad. Primary cook person in house said cook "lots" of rice, when queried as to how much would be good idea for company.

Turned out I was the only person interested in eating rice. Which I'll probably be eating for the next two-three days. Not really a bad thing, per se, but I wasn't expecting to cook breakfast for people and end up cooking my full diet for the next few sunrises

Most of what I eat when I'm on a tight budget is rice. If you want to mix it up, make some rice pudding for breakfast (raisins, eggs, milk, sugar, and cinnamon will do it). For dinner, make fried rice (butter, eggs, veggies/meat, soy sauce). I've also made a cheese/spinach quiche-like dish, a tuna-melt cassarole, and tomato-cream soup, all with rice as the featured grain. It's surprisingly flexible.

[Frumple]

Oh... yeah, I've (regularly) mixed rice with pretty much everything else I eat. This particular batch was jasmine rice mixed with eggs, and about 3/4ths flavored with cheese and some leftover ramen flavoring -- rest was put aside in case someone wanted some plainer stuff. Breakfast rice is rice with eggs, bacon, and cheese added, but no one was interested in eating the rice so the bacon didn't get mixed in. Along with whatever else I feel like, heh.

I generally eat on about two USD per day (little more if I'm adding stuff beyond whatever the base is), less if I'm particularly desperate or particularly inactive that day. Maybe offset a little by the vitamins (I really need to get some more of ) I try to keep up with to offset the malnutrition risk eating mostly grain entails.

It's a side thng, but eating out often drives me a little crazy. I see a five dollar meal and think "I can eat for three days for that price." S'nice not to have to deal with preparation and taste something different, but it's still something my brain can't stand to do more than once or twice a month, max. More than that and it starts bothering me.

[Skyrunner]

Short or long grain rice? :3

[Tellemurius]

Ill stick to my eggs benedict for my breakfast as i never been of fan of rice in the morning unless its soup when im sick.

[SirAaronIII]

Rice is great. I cooked some rice yesterday, but it was terrible because I put too much water in.

[Lord Shonus]

Am I the only person that aboslutely loathes rice in almost any form?

[Frumple]

Probably not the only one. There's gotta' be, like, two of you. Somewhere.

But yeah. Cheap, filling enough, goes well with a lot of stuff. Like potatoes. Rice is my other potato.

[Trapezohedron]

Rice is absolutely delish, at least for me.

Nasi goreng nanas, anyone?

[Tellemurius]

Probably not the only one. There's gotta' be, like, two of you. Somewhere.

But yeah. Cheap, filling enough, goes well with a lot of stuff. Like potatoes. Rice is my other potato.

Yet you wonder why the government doesn't support the usage of rice in school cafeterias.

[Frumple]

I have in fact never wondered that. I have seen cafeteria "food" bend forks. I have't thought of public school cafeteria food as edible in... over a decade? More accurately, I didn't even know that. Which government, and why?

Anyway, they totally had rice in th'collage cafeteria occasionally. Was pretty low qual stuff (as in, I've bought better for less than a nickel to the measurement unit), but it was there.

[Tellemurius]

I have in fact never wondered that. I have seen cafeteria "food" bend forks. I have't thought of public school cafeteria food as edible in... over a decade? More accurately, I didn't even know that. Which government, and why?

Anyway, they totally had rice in th'collage cafeteria occasionally. Was pretty low qual stuff (as in, I've bought better for less than a nickel to the measurement unit), but it was there.

Just US government and school districts and what not. The stuff is cheap so its not like they are blowing a ton of cash on it plus it is healthier than potatoes. Schools can definitely get some better quality man.

[Skyrunner]

High school cafeteria uses absolutely garbage long-grain rice that's too fluffy and has a bad aftertaste :x
No wonder why it's always with strong sauces (General Tso's, buffalo sauce) or mixed with other tastes (fried rice, rice bowl).

I repeat: do ya'll eat long or short grain rice? :3
Short is stickier and more taste imo

[Blargityblarg]

I tend to eat long-grain rice at home, because that's what we buy (except for when it's arborio and I make risotto), but I do enjoy the shorter-grained stuff I get in Chinese restaurants more.

E: It really does depend on what kind of food it's going with. Shorter grain is more east-asian, longer is more subcontinental.

[Tellemurius]

High school cafeteria uses absolutely garbage long-grain rice that's too fluffy and has a bad aftertaste :x
No wonder why it's always with strong sauces (General Tso's, buffalo sauce) or mixed with other tastes (fried rice, rice bowl).

I repeat: do ya'll eat long or short grain rice? :3
Short is stickier and more taste imo

Jasmine, sweet, long, short, brown i eat it all

[Frumple]

Why limit self to just one?

Mostly long grain, though, and mostly transitioning toward primarily brown. It's generally less expensive around here than short grain, hence the bias.

Still. Eat both happily. Short makes for interesting variance, and I do very much like it, but long's used more culturally here, usually, so it's easier to get.

Probably should nab some short next time I go shopping, though. Variety!