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I buy Indian Basmati in the ten-pound burlap bag. If it is less than $2 a pound, it's not all that great and doesn't have much aroma, but the cheap Basmati is still nicer than Arkansas rice.
I eat rice about three times a week, usually with red beans or chicken curry.
I was raised by parents who in turn were raised by Deep South parents. That means we had three items on a regular basis: rice, sweet tea and black-eyed peas. Seldom were potatoes served, in fact, the only time I remember them were at Thanksgiving and with meat loaf.
I seldom, if ever, buy potatoes. But rice, that's a staple item that's never absent. I even prefer Cream of Rice hot cereal over any other.
Just bought a 20 LB bag. Now the options of pan gravies to top it off. Tomato gravy from fresh garden tomatoes is a favorite too.
Nomad, are you speaking of southern style tomato gravy? I have only had it once, in southern Mississippi, and never got the recipe!
I love basmati, arborio, and jasmine rice, not to mention brown rice.
Not too keen on the boxed, processed stuff, would rather do it myself and spare myself the chemicals and what not.
I could eat rice every day!
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I read decades ago that when toddlers are given the choice of foods to select from, over the course of a week they will select a healthy diet for their physical needs. As adults, IF we are in touch with ourselves and not completely driven by market advertising, AND our bodies have had access to healthy diets at some time in our lives, we will do the same.
The clincher is the part that follows my "AND," because the body learns what foods supply it with the nutrients it needs, in any degree. That means that if you only ever get calcium from the minute level of that included in the tiny bit of cheese in Cheetos, you will crave Cheetos when you need calcium. Sad, but true.
The good news is that your body is always paying attention to what foods supply what it needs. So, if you concentrate on eating nutritious, healthy food, in time it will crave the foods that give you the most nutrition for the effort spent. In your case, you didn't mention the specific rice, so I can only give a general idea of what you might be hungry for, based on rice in general, (with info pasted below the link):
The gross composition of rice and its various milling fractions was given in Table 14. It shows that rice is rich in energy and is a good source of protein. Table 15 showed that rice contains a reasonable amount of thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin E and other nutrients. It does not contain any vitamin C, D or A. Because of the quantity consumed it is the principal source of energy, protein, iron, calcium, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin in Asian diets.
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