"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 2/27/2019 5:40 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 2/27/2019 2:57 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 1:12:42 PM UTC-5, notbob wrote:
>>>> This attempt at eating rice was not a huge success. It merely
>>>> buttressed my "meh" attitude towards rice.
>>>
>>> Perhaps your taste buds requires a good deal of stimulation. I love
>>> plain rice, unsalted, unflavored, unadorned.
>>>
>>> I also like it other ways, but plain is my favorite.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> I used to eat rice for breakfast. I picked that habit up when we lived in
>> Thailand. It was one thing I could cook for myself at the age of nine (no
>> microwaves back then). After cooking it I'd add butter, salt and a tiny
>> bit of pepper. I got tired of that years ago.
>>
>> Plain unadultered rice is entirely too "meh" for my tastes. But hey, we
>> all have our differences.
>>
>> Jill
> As a kid, rice was rare. I could not see any use for plain rice. It was
> something to be used as a carrier for gravy, not eaten "as is" at all.
> Three of our grandkids spent a few years in Hawaii and father of one is
> Asian. They would have plain rice, by choice, all day.
>
> I do like risotto though.

My mom made Rice A Roni. *Shudder*. She also made Chicken Amandine that was
baked on a bed of rice. I liked the rice and almonds in that. The chicken
itself? Not so much.