What are you cooking/eating right now?

[Little lunch]

Just had chicken curry and brown rice, mum made it.
It was ok, it stopped me from being hungry anymore.

[Joods]

Fried potatoes, country style and ham steaks for breakfast.

[c172]

Dang! I ran out of almond milk, so no bran flakes with my Morningstar sausage patties. Wheat thins instead. 

At least I hit the grocery store this afternoon.

[abaris]

Slice of belly meat, cut to small strips, Champignons, hacked fine, tomato, sliced, peas and rice. All stewed for one to two hours in a pot with a bit of butter on top, peppered and salted, of course. Served with a generous bit of Parmesan on top, still hot, so it can melt.

Simple and cheap recipe by my mother.

[rado84]

In an effort to lower the quantity of cigarettes I smoke daily, I just ate a huge salad (about 3 pounds) and the same weight of fried potatoes.

[The Grand Nudger]

I've been on a home-made pilaf kick lately.  Made it so many ways.  Salsa pilafs, chicken and peas an carrots, beef pilaf, orzo/no orzo, vermicelli..different rices...roasted red peppers and garbanzos, peanut butter pilaf (not kidding, try it).  Garam masala pilaf, salmon and cilantro.....soooo good.

Really makes a difference on my dinner time bottom line with the army I'm feeding, it's filling..nutritious...and totally made from scratch, so, delicious.

[Whateverist]

Just made a big ass batch of gazpacho w/ 5 pounds of marked down heirloom tomatoes, 3 ears of sweet white corn, 1 lg sweet white onion, 1/2 large sweet purple onion; 3 jalapeño peppers; 3 grilled & skinned red bell peppers; 1 c good olive oil; 1/2 c red wine vinegar; 2 euro cucumbers, 1 bunch of radishes, 1/2 a jicama. We'll be eating it for a week. Nom, nom, nom.

[Little lunch]

I've been on a home-made pilaf kick lately.  Made it so many ways.  Salsa pilafs, chicken and peas an carrots, beef pilaf, orzo/no orzo, vermicelli..different rices...roasted red peppers and garbanzos, peanut butter pilaf (not kidding, try it).  Garam masala pilaf, salmon and cilantro.....soooo good.  

Really makes a difference on my dinner time bottom line with the army I'm feeding, it's filling..nutritious...and totally made from scratch, so, delicious.

Pilafs are definitely one of the best ways to cook rice, especially risotto, in my opinion.
I've recently discovered Jasmati rice, a hybrid of Basmati and Jasmine.
Apparently it's been around for a while but I'd never heard of it.
It's quite good. Still love my brown rice the best though. :-)

[Whateverist]

I've been on a home-made pilaf kick lately.  Made it so many ways.  Salsa pilafs, chicken and peas an carrots, beef pilaf, orzo/no orzo, vermicelli..different rices...roasted red peppers and garbanzos, peanut butter pilaf (not kidding, try it).  Garam masala pilaf, salmon and cilantro.....soooo good.  

Really makes a difference on my dinner time bottom line with the army I'm feeding, it's filling..nutritious...and totally made from scratch, so, delicious.

Pilafs are definitely one of the best ways to cook rice, especially risotto, in my opinion.
I've recently discovered Jasmati rice, a hybrid of Basmati and Jasmine.
Apparently it's been around for a while but I'd never heard of it.
It's quite good. Still love my brown rice the best though. :-)

Love risotto but have a hard time not turning it to gruel.  Any tips?

[abaris]

Love risotto but have a hard time not turning it to gruel.  Any tips?

I posted my risotto recipe right above. You have to make it boil, with the right amount of water, which is about a 4th of the added amount of rice. When it boils, you have to draw the pot to a different hotplate which you have preheated at the lowest setting. Maybe one or two notches above the lowest settings, depending on the amount of water. You cover the pot with a lid and let it stew till all the water has evaporated, which is usually one or two hours. So start early and have patience.