On 12/16/2014 2:28 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/16/2014 11:40 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>> On 12/16/2014 8:26 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd not want the "real deal". Thats not a recipe I'd consider, it's
>>> definitely a WASTE of expensive wild rice. This Byerly putz is pure
>>> TIAD.
>>>
>>
>> You don't know jack about wild rice. Us native Minnesotans know all
>> about it - and, as Oregonian Haruspex mentioned, the black paddy-grown
>> cultivated 'wild' rice is garbage. The genuine hand-harvested wild rice
>> is far superior and not that much more expensive.
>>
> Yep, the wild rice I have is hand-harvested.
>
>> http://www.bineshiiwildrice.com/GOURMET_WILD_R.htm
>>
>> Wild rice soup is one of the classic uses of wild rice, along with its
>> use as a poultry stuffing, pilaf, and of course, the main component of
>> wild rice hotdish.
>>
>> Also, that wild rice soup is Byerly's signature dish. They're famous
>> for
>> it.
>>
> It's a delicious soup! We tasted it at a restaurant in <gasp>
> Minnesota! Of course, Sheldon doesn't like cream soups therefor no
> one else should like them, either.
>
I spent a weekend recently in New Ulm, Minnesota, when they held their
annual Christkindlmarkt. The market had a small cafe serving
traditional German foods - and wild rice soup, too. Of course. It's
traditional Minnesota fare.