On 9/13/2012 3:05 AM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:14:51 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/12/2012 8:40 AM, tert in seattle wrote:
>>> anyone eat mixed congee? do you eat it chilled, heated, room temp, other..?
>>>
>>> http://www.ftupet.com/upload/mixedcongee.jpg
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Exactly. It's amazing the cr*p they stick a random word on and then
> stupid white people think that's what it is in real life. I used to
> do the chicken broth and ginger with rice for my kids when they were
> sick and DD says she still craves it when she doesn't feel well.
>

It is a word that I'd like to stay away from. An interesting thing about
the soup is that cooking rice and salt creates a substance similar to
MSG, at least that's what I'm tasting. It's kind of a neat thing.