I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

"notbob" wrote in message
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I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Put it in a bowl. Add a teaspoon of water per cup of rice. Cover tightly
with waxed paper. Nuke until the waxed paper's almost falling apart. Burn
the bejeezus out of your hands removing bowl from microwave. Perfect.

Hi, I don't where you get the rice pudding recipe. But is sounds very
much like the way we make sweet steamed rice in my home town. But we
don't use the leftover rices to do that. We use the "sticky rice", and
with the ingredient that you mentioned, and also suger and honey. It is
great!!

Leftover rice is ferfect for fried rice.


On 11ÔÂ10ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç2ʱ55·Ö, notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

"notbob" wrote in message
...
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Everything sucks when you're a jerk.

On 2006-11-10, wrote:

Leftover rice is ferfect for fried rice.

Maybe I'll try that next time.

nb

cybercat wrote:
"notbob" wrote in message
...
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Everything sucks when you're a jerk.

meow

notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Rice is awesome!! A big bowl, really hot, with a little real butter
and a dash of salt. Yum-um-my! I could eat rice every day, and in
fact, used to (fried rice with veggies).

-L.

"-L." wrote in message
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notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Rice is awesome!! A big bowl, really hot, with a little real butter
and a dash of salt. Yum-um-my! I could eat rice every day, and in
fact, used to (fried rice with veggies).

-L.
He's talking leftover take out rice it's a whole nother critter. Rice I
make at home always great ... day of or day after. Take home rice I throw
out too. The next day it just sucks.

Lynne

notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice

I think Chinese take-out rice is an abomination -- Rice was something
I never enjoyed when I was younger because of the way it was served.
Now I'm amazed at the variety that is out there. My current favorites
are a couple of brands of jasmine that I can pick up locally.

The thing is, rice is so inexpensive and easy to prepare, I wouldn't
bother with poor quality left-overs. But if I had to use some up, I'd
go for the stir fry... lol

wrote:

Leftover rice is ferfect for fried rice.

I always thought it kept pretty well.



On 11ÔÂ10ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç2ʱ55·Ö, notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

nb

Sort of depends on the take-out, but you could tried flied lice cakes.
Might
need to add an egg and they're still hell in the pan. Crispy!

Abe wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

You expected better from leftover rice? Not only that, but leftover
rice that probably had some Chinese restaurant aroma to it?

It would totally depend on the type of restaurant. If it is a place that
shovels out "General Tsos Chicken" to mostly non Chinese customers you
can expect mediocre rice. But there are lots of Chinese places that do
serve/include good quality rice.

notbob wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

I don't think very good rice pudding can be made with already cooked
rice. Left over Chinese take out rice is really only good for fly
lice, or in tomato soup... even before it was cooked it already
absorbed all the pungent cooking aromas of a Chinese kitchen, none of
which the delicate aroma of vanilla bean will cover. I almost always
end up tossing that left over rice out into the yard for the birds...
you wasted like $5 worth of ingredients, not to mention all your time
and labor, attempting to salvage like 3¢ worth of stale rice.

The problem with pudding is it really doesn't pay to go through all the
trouble to make it from scatch for only a serving or three, and it
doesn't store well for more than a day or two so making a tubful is not
a good option unless you have hearty eaters about. The last time I
made tapioca pudding from scratch I prepared six quarts, not realizing
how filling that stuff is, couldn't eat much more than like a cupful at
a sitting... I was lucky my next door neighbor had a passle of grand
kids visiting that day and they all love tapioca pudding, so none got
wasted.

You need to keep some snack puddings around...
JELL-O makes an instant rice pudding mix:
http://www.kraftfoods.com/jello/main...family_pudding

Sheldon

George wrote:
Abe wrote:
I was thinking I could do something with the leftover rice that came
with my Chinese take-out, as I hardly ever eat it. I'm not a big rice
fan. I'm always craving something sweet late in the evening and I've
always like puddings but am usually too lazy to fix any. But, I saw
something about rice pudding and ....well, you can figure the rest.
So, I did it. Raisins, real vanilla bean, cinnamon ...the whole nine
yards. Even let it chill. Guess what. Still tastes like suck-O
leftover take-out rice. YUK! (I tossed the whole batch)

You expected better from leftover rice? Not only that, but leftover
rice that probably had some Chinese restaurant aroma to it?

It would totally depend on the type of restaurant. If it is a place that
shovels out "General Tsos Chicken" to mostly non Chinese customers you
can expect mediocre rice. But there are lots of Chinese places that do
serve/include good quality rice.

What good quality rice... every Chinese restaurant I ever went to uses
the same ordinary inexpensive long grain rice anyone can buy for $20
the 100lb sack. Rice is very prone to absorbing odors regardless what
variety (I try to buy rice in plastic bags ratehr than woven sacks or
cardboard boxes, but I doubt even that helps), it absorbs every odor it
comes in contact with (I place rice into sealed glass containers as
soon as it arrives home) Any rice used in Chinese cooking will even
before it's cooked have already absorbed all the pungent aromas of the
Chinese kitchen... naturally you're not going to notice when eaten with
Chinese food... but any time I've had that cardboard container of LO
rice in my fridge over night I can smell it as soon as I open my fridge
in the morning, that odor reminds me to immediately toss it out for the
birds... bet you've never seen a murder of squinty eyed crows fressing
rice with chopsticks! LOL

Sheldon wrote:

I don't think very good rice pudding can be made with already cooked
rice. Left over Chinese take out rice is really only good for fly
lice, or in tomato soup... even before it was cooked it already
absorbed all the pungent cooking aromas of a Chinese kitchen, none of
which the delicate aroma of vanilla bean will cover. I almost always
end up tossing that left over rice out into the yard for the birds...
you wasted like $5 worth of ingredients, not to mention all your time
and labor, attempting to salvage like 3¢ worth of stale rice.

I have used leftover rice, usually Basmati, for pudding many
times. It is passable, better than most rice puddings I have been
served, but not as good as a batch made from scratch and using
arborio rice.

My wife doesn't eat rice. I find that it cooks better in batches
big enough for at least four people. I usually make a batch and
then reheat it by putting it in a serving size Pyrex bowl
inverted on a plate an nuke it.





The problem with pudding is it really doesn't pay to go through all the
trouble to make it from scatch for only a serving or three, and it
doesn't store well for more than a day or two so making a tubful is not
a good option unless you have hearty eaters about. The last time I
made tapioca pudding from scratch I prepared six quarts, not realizing
how filling that stuff is, couldn't eat much more than like a cupful at
a sitting... I was lucky my next door neighbor had a passle of grand
kids visiting that day and they all love tapioca pudding, so none got
wasted.

You need to keep some snack puddings around...
JELL-O makes an instant rice pudding mix:
http://www.kraftfoods.com/jello/main...family_pudding

Sheldon