Favorite Foods and Recipes...

[abcaines]

i forgot to ask if you use a special made rice cooker.... .. most of the people here who make large amounts of rice use them - but they also make smaller ones for smaller amounts... even as small as 4 cups... ...they make cooking rice much easier and eliminates a lot of common mistakes people make... rice cookers are as common as toasters in hawaii kitchens.... even in kitchens of people like us who don;t eat that much rice... .

we have a really big rice cooker that i think cooks about 32 cups of rice at a time - but like i said we don;t eat much rice so it hardly ever gets used... .... it sits on a high shelf in the pantry with 2 pasta maker machines that also hardly ever get used.... we do eat a lot of pasta - but usually buy it already made ... somewhere in that pantry is also a couple of musubi rice molds... but they might be growing hair by now they have been in there unused for so long..... ....my old college schoolmate from japan who became a room mate for a few years left them here when she went back home to japan...

No, just plain old pan. For a time, we were in the habit of buying neat kitchen gadgets but now our kitchen is full of stuff we hardly use.

I reread the instructions on the rice and it said to let it stand for ten minutes after taking it off the heat. I just went to preparing the rice as soon as it came off the stove.

 

[aleshanee]

No, just plain old pan. For a time, we were in the habit of buying neat kitchen gadgets but now our kitchen is full of stuff we hardly use.

I reread the instructions on the rice and it said to let it stand for ten minutes after taking it off the heat. I just went to preparing the rice as soon as it came off the stove.

i fully understand that part - we have tons of kitchen gadgets too.... ....we found some are aren;t really useful and end up being stored in a locker never used or given away.... ... but when it comes to unique or exotic foods we want to try and make we found specific gadgets to be almost essential... ...

a lot of people here in hawaii..especialy newcomers... who didn;t grow up here but discovered they liked spam musubi - found rice cookers and rice molds to be essential in making the final product right...( in a way they found tasty and that didn;t fall apart)... .. ..

the ones who did grow up here and practice old school ways - know tricks that are very hard for the rest of us to learn or even for them to teach....(or at least that;s what they tell us) ...... plus they also know instinctively how to pick the right kind of rice....

..... personally my favorite rice is dark - almost black - wild rices and basmati or indian rice... .... but it;s impossible to make spam musubi or real sushi with those..... and even then we eat them rarely... but still use a rice cooker when we do.....