On 9/12/2012 8:40 AM, tert in seattle wrote:
> anyone eat mixed congee? do you eat it chilled, heated, room temp, other..?
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> http://www.ftupet.com/upload/mixedcongee.jpg
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> I'm thinking it needs a side of bacon or sausage, and some toast
>

It's an interesting product. I've never seen a soup like that before so
I don't know what would be appropriate as a side. My suggestion is that
you use the product to make vegetable beef soup. I'll check it out if I
ever see it in the store.

Congee is a comfort food over here but we call it jook or chook, never
congee. We'll typically make it with leftover thanksgiving turkey. We'll
make it when someone in the house is ill. I used to make it for my
mother-in-law when she was having a bad day. For a sick person, adding
finely chopped ginger is a good idea. Mostly you just boil some leftover
rice with some chicken or turkey stock. I like to add shitake mushrooms
and celery, if I got it but the sky's the limit. It should look like
rice porridge - not bean soup though.