What rice do you use

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Since daughter moved in last year she got me onto jasmine rice. I love the stuff. I used some brown rice but didn't like it all. We ran out of jasmine and we only just got it a week or two ago. I'm having rice with kebabs tonight. I also have arborio for risotto .
Do you have a go to rice?

Russ
 
Right now I have a big supply of Basmati grown here in SE Texas. Most rice grown in Texas is some form of long grain rice. I like to buy as close to home as I can, when possible.

CD
 
I use all kinds of rice. I like to make blends or buy rice blends and blend them even further. There are times when I like white rice by itself and brown rice by itself. But my favorite thing with rice is a rich blend of several rice types.
 
caseydog said:
Right now I have a big supply of Basmati grown here in SE Texas. Most rice grown in Texas is some form of long grain rice. I like to buy as close to home as I can, when possible.

CD
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I only just found out Texas grew rice. The last place I would have thought of? I think you may have mentioned it lately???

Can't imagine Bali rice fields in Texas ? Bali has amazing fields.

Russ
 
rascal said:
I only just found out Texas grew rice. The last place I would have thought of? I think you may have mentioned it lately???

Can't imagine Bali rice fields in Texas ? Bali has amazing fields.

Russ
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Texas is so large, that it has a little of everything in terms of climate. SE Texas is prime rice growing land, as well as sugar cane. The Rio Grande valley is a big citrus growing area, including their famous Ruby Red Grapefruit. East Texas is dense forest, while West Texas is rocky desert. North Texas is open prairie -- my home is built on what was probably once a cotton field.

CD
 
Rice is grown in the USA in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisianan and California.
 
flyinglentris said:
Rice is grown in the USA in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisianan and California.
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Um, Arkansas is the number one rice producer in the US, by a very large margin. Louisiana and California are on par with Texas -- Missouri rounds out the top five. Don't know where you got Minnesota and Wisconsin.

CD
 
caseydog said:
Um, Arkansas is the number one rice producer in the US, by a very large margin. Louisiana and California are on par with Texas -- Missouri rounds out the top five. Don't know where you got Minnesota and Wisconsin.

CD
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Minnesota and Wisconisn are well known for rice, especially long grain wild rice.
 
I currently have generic medium-grain white rice, Arborio rice, some kind of Mahatma blend for fried rice (jasmine and long-grain), and Minnesota wild rice.

We ate rice only one way when I was growing up - rice pudding. That was it. No fried rice, no risotto, no rice in soups or as a side dish, no rice-a-roni, just rice pudding, and it's still my favorite way to have it.

Most of the time, I just make white rice in the rice cooker for a side because my wife likes it, and then I use the leftovers for fried rice or rice pudding the next day.

Oh, I left out rice crispy cereal. We had that. :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
I currently have generic medium-grain white rice, Arborio rice, some kind of Mahatma blend for fried rice (jasmine and long-grain), and Minnesota wild rice.

We ate rice only one way when I was growing up - rice pudding. That was it. No fried rice, no risotto, no rice in soups or as a side dish, no rice-a-roni, just rice pudding, and it's still my favorite way to have it.

Most of the time, I just make white rice in the rice cooker for a side because my wife likes it, and then I use the leftovers for fried rice or rice pudding the next day.

Oh, I left out rice crispy cereal. We had that. :laugh:
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I have never gotten into wild rice. I just don't like it. It is a texture thing, I think.

When I use white rice, it is almost always in a gumbo, or with chili, or in some other way covered with something with a strong flavor. I don't think I would be able to tell the difference between a Basmati and a Jasmine rice in a bowl of gumbo.

CD
 
caseydog said:
Texas is so large, that it has a little of everything in terms of climate. SE Texas is prime rice growing land, as well as sugar cane. The Rio Grande valley is a big citrus growing area, including their famous Ruby Red Grapefruit. East Texas is dense forest, while West Texas is rocky desert. North Texas is open prairie -- my home is built on what was probably once a cotton field.

CD
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Sugar cane I found weird as well, driving through Queensland cane from eye to eye. It's massive there.

Russ
 
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