Rice Recipes?

annika wrote: Hi,I'm new to this forum, and realized just this week how big a deal this "bird flu thing" could be.  The news stations sure aren't saying a lot about it!  I heard the guy (Michael Leavitt (sp?)) talking about stocking up on tuna and powdered milk, and did some research of my own, and things sure don't look good. I'm going to start stocking up on groceries and basic necessities immediately, especially cheaper stuff (we're living paycheck-to-paycheck and have very little extra money).  Rice is cheap, as well as pinto beans and Ramen noodles, so I'm planning on those for sure.But what can be made with rice?  I would imagine that plain ol' rice would get unappetizing very quickly, but I do know that it's good with beef stew over it.  What else is there?And how can dried beans be cooked with little power/fuel consumption?  We do have camping equipment, including a Coleman stove, but it takes several hours for dried beans to cook.We've just got two people to feed, so at least that's to our advantage (financially-speaking).Thanks!

    
"Basmati " Indian rice improves with age. Very nice with some butter salt & pepper, or add some veggies herbs.

(Google for recipes or go to, http://www.thefoodnetwork.com/ )

Beans can be pre-soaked to cut down on cooking time.

Careful of the Ramen noodles and trans-fats.

You can buy a 50-pound bag of large-flake Quaker Oats for about $20-30$, (it will keep 2-3years in air tight containers). When you cook porridge add a little milk to it, tastes great. I like it with a little salt and butter, or you can add cinamon or anything else you like. Should make a couple of hundred servings.

Pasta stores well and is inexpensive. Another form of pasta is called Cous-Cous. Heat a couple of cans of chicken stock to boiling, drop in a cup of Cous-Cous pasta, a little butter, cover turn off heat, fluff a couple of times, ready in 10-minutes. Easy and cheap. Cous-Cous looks like fine granular sand. Add some raisins leftover meat etc.

Look into other inexpensive grains like Buckwheat (Kasha)


    
    
    
    
    
    

Soak your beans overnight and they will cook faster.   Some of us are experimenting with beans in a thermos.  Stay tuned and we'll let you know if anything works.  Another option is to cook them with charcoal in a dutch oven.  Let me know if you need more info on how to do that. 

There are some good rice recipes on here including one with coconut milk, waterchestnuts and I can't remember what else.  Looked very good.  A good basic rice recipe one is put one can of chicken, one can of chicken broth or water and chicken boullion in with one cup rice and one cup water.    You can search "rice" on this site and come up with lots.  Welcome!

 

Rice can also be made with any juices you pour off of other cans, tomato juice, instead of water can make the basis of Spanish Rice and you can add things of your choice.  Rice can be made using fruit juices for a sweeter taste.  Rice with raisens, sugar and milk makes a sort of pudding.  The Chinese use cold rice, peanut oil, soy sauce and onions as a quick dish, i really like it but it sounds a bit odd.

 I cook the rice in a rice cooker (Wal-mart $20). This is really nice because you measure the water, then you do not have to monitor it while it cooks, it will switch from cooking to warming. Then  I freeze 2 cups in a 1 Quart Ziploc bag. Then it is easy to add anything to the rice- beans, chicken, beef stir fry vegetables etc. The rice can be defrosted in a microwave in 2 minutes, or slowly defrosted in a lunch bag.

I know I am gonna hate myself for this...mojo?  Huh?

Fried rice is really easy. Cook the rice a few days before making it and let it dry out.

Stir fry hot with one tablespoon of seseme oil. Add diced spam and peas after approx 4 minutes and give it another couple of minutes. Mix in soy sauce or salt to taste.

Yum.

Bradley's Dirty Rice

hi,

I did not want to start a new thread so I found this older one about rice. I bought some rice the other day. I put it in ziplock bags. I then bought 5 gallon white buckets from Lowes. I lined the buckets on the inside with brown wrapping paper. I put the bags of rice (in ziplock bags) in the buckets. Does that sound like a good way to store rice? I have gone through this thread searching for recipes. I am looking for simple rice recipes that do not require a lot of ingredients.

Stock up on canned chicken and cream of chicken soup.  Drain canned chicken rinse if enough water is available to remove excess salt (if water is a priority skip this step) heat cream of chicken soup instead of adding a full can of water/and or milk use a half a can of either, heat, add canned chicken cook until chicken is heated serve over rice. You could add vegetables to this if you wish but I have always just made it with fresh boiled chicken that you shred and add to the soup and served vegetables on the side I am pretty sure canned chicken would work just fine in a pinch. My mother was big into EASY recipes and this one about topped the list LOL.

My husband likes leftover rice for breakfast with milk, sugar and cinnamon.

We both love rice pudding made from leftover rice.

There are lots of them out there - I usually opt for the easiest ones I find at the time.

OLD FASHION RICE PUDDING   

1 c. leftover rice
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
2 c. milk
1 tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Combine rice, sugar, butter, salt, flavoring and nutmeg into 1-quart baking dish. Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour, stirring after 15 minutes and again when pudding is done. Then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Place in broiler a few minutes to brown. Serve warm or chilled. Makes 6 servings.
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Another easy recipe

Ingredients:
2 large eggs
1/3 cup sugar
1/4t salt
Beat slightly to mix then
Scald
2 cups milk
dash nutmeg
then add to other mixture then add
2 cups cooked rice
1/2 cup raisins


Directions:
Pour into 1qt casserole and set in pan of water (1 inch deep). Sprilnkle with nutmeg. Bake at 350 F for 1hr and 15 min. Serve warm with cream.

About 6 servings.
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I use the recipes as guidelines and usually add raisins, cinnamon and nutmeg to mine. It's sort of like making bread pudding - never exactly the same twice, but hard to mess up.
    

Thanks everyone for the rice recipes. If you come across anymore just post them here. I made a rice dish yesterday with one of these recipes. It turned out pretty good. 

You can put just about any of your canned goods over rice, like chili, or whatever you like, the main thing about rice and pasta for survival is that it takes the expensive stuff like meat, and pulls out your amount,  you can use one sixteen ounce can mixed with the rice and have a meal, or pasta.

Oatmeal with milk, raisins, and about an inch thick cap of brown sugar!

Add black beans and diced tomatos to rice Quick and easy add any spices you like.

Hi alll,

I tried the old fashioned rice pudding that oknut had instead of using milk I used evaporated milk and it was good and I also added raisins also

Have really started to think through what I would make out of some of my preps if the bird flu hits cause I know I would be sick of beans and rice in no time.  Here's another recipe suggestion....  Shrimp creole over rice using canned shrimp, dehydrated bell pepper and onion (unless I still have fresh ones cause I have a good supply of fresh onion stored) and canned tomato products.

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I was searching for recipes to make Yellow Rice and found a site with TONS of rice recipes

This reicipe I took off another BF site.  I modified it to make it tasty...

Bloody Mary Rice
12oz Bloody Mary mix
1 cup chix stock
1T Hot Sauce, I like Franks, Tobasco will suffice
8T butter
1T garlic
1/2 cup chopped onion
1c rice

Bring everything except rice to a boil.  Add rice, reduce heat to simmer, cover and cook about 30 minutes, or until rice is moist.

Now, the original recipe used water instead of stock.  And it also had 4 strips bacon, and 2 stalks celery.

This rice is easy, and excellent.  It was not nearly spicy enough for me, so I drizzled on more Franks on my plate, but the kids loved it with tacos.

I will use this dish as a side dish, and as a filler to enchiladas and tacos.

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nawty