Beans and Rice

[Amish Heart]

That'd be pretty easy. I'm sure there's a pork and beans recipe for canning out there. And beanie weenies just have the hotdog or vienna sausage in them. Probably the hotdog would hold up better when pressure canning.

 

[sonya123]

Mostly noodles, LOL. All kinds of noodles, ramen noodles, bean noodles, rice noodles, sweet potato noodles, etc. If it is like soup (like ramen) I don't eat it, but dry noodles I will. Chicken feet, which I DO NOT EAT, PERIOD. She cooks home cooking types of things like Chinese meatloaf (uses ground pork, onions and tofu), Oxtail pot roast (pretty close to American pot roast but with Chinese spices). Fried rice, Hakka eggs (scrambled eggs cooked with bean paste.) She is Hakka, which is the second largest Chinese group in Taiwan behind the Taiwanese.

I use the rice cooker for steaming potatoes, pork buns, dumplings, etc. I even use it to "boil" eggs.

I would probably love her cooking , well except the chicket feet...lol. Those go to the dogs. I Love Chinese food , especially dumplings ( with pork and cabbage in them)

 

[Weedygarden]

I could ‘google’ but curious what ya all think about rice.

And yes - I listen to Dave Ramsey. I like the way he sees things, and on multiple levels. So… I get that the two are prescribed as a cheap diet. And, good for prepping, but he doesn’t go there.

I’m fine with beans, and the high protein agrees with me an my high metabolism… but the only rice I like is egg fried rice.

A few years ago I bought a 10lbs bag of rice - cheap. It went to waste.

So anyway, looking for thoughts on storing rice for a prep, and what to do with it, and what it’s good for.

I am trying to understand how rice went to waste. Was it brown rice? Brown rice will go rancid.
I store rice in 5 gallon buckets and in half gallon canning jars. Add an oxygen absorber and it should last for at least 30 years.

I honestly do not eat much rice, but I use it for special meals, certain foods, such as red beans and rice, or when I do my New Years meal of black eyed peas, collards, rice, smothered steak and corn bread. The rice is good as the first thing on the plate, and then the steak and gravy over that, or even the black eyed peas with it.

 

[OldSchool]

I am trying to understand how rice went to waste. Was it brown rice? Brown rice will go rancid.
I store rice in 5 gallon buckets and in half gallon canning jars. Add an oxygen absorber and it should last for at least 30 years.

I honestly do not eat much rice, but I use it for special meals, certain foods, such as red beans and rice, or when I do my New Years meal of black eyed peas, collards, rice, smothered steak and corn bread. The rice is good as the first thing on the plate, and then the steak and gravy over that, or even the black eyed peas with it.

That was way back when I didn't know much about it. It might have still been good, I didn't check it. It was stored in a broom closet and I wanted to use that space and didn't know what to do with it. Now I know that being white rice, it was probably still good.

Since that post - I've learned to cook rice and liked it every time.

EDIT: Now that I know how big a 10 pound bag of rice is, or rather how small... It was much more. It was the size of a 40lbs bag of salt.

 

[Magus]

I could ‘google’ but curious what ya all think about rice.

And yes - I listen to Dave Ramsey. I like the way he sees things, and on multiple levels. So… I get that the two are prescribed as a cheap diet. And, good for prepping, but he doesn’t go there.

I’m fine with beans, and the high protein agrees with me an my high metabolism… but the only rice I like is egg fried rice.

A few years ago I bought a 10lbs bag of rice - cheap. It went to waste.

So anyway, looking for thoughts on storing rice for a prep, and what to do with it, and what it’s good for.

Its good for soups, stews, stuffings, pudding, and beans or black-eyed peas. you can also poach eggs on top of it or fry it with eggs, you tube has hundreds of recipes.

 

[Jim Costa]

However, I discovered you can't add rice to soup and then freeze the left overs.
The thawed rice tastes like a powder.

 

[Magus]

I eat lots of rice myself. I use it as a filler in about everything: soups, stews, stuffing, grits substitutes, and cat food.

Now I have this recipe for bean patties that's really great in winter.
three cups of mashed pinto beans, very dry.
A cooking spoon of bacon lard.
2 eggs.
1 cup of Bisquick.
1 cup of meal.
1 cup of minced red onion.
2 Jalapeno peppers, minced.
Slowly mix and add bean broth back to it until you have something like biscuit dough.
Dust your kneading surface with flour and roll out the dough until 3/4 an inch thick, then cut out your patties with a tuna can and fry in lard until brown.

They go great with Mackerel/Tuna patties and potato pancakes.

 

[RJ2019]

I like rice. Maybe I should use it more often than I do, but I don't. Fried rice, rice and veg, with fish, in soups, I've even used it as filler for meatloaf (I don't do gluten so no breadcrumbs). When my dog was sick I used it as part of his dog food recipe. I like the versatility of rice and I do store some. Last summer I finished a bag bought around 2020, it was a 20lb bag, so I don't go through a ton but it does get rotated through, very slowly.

 

[sonya123]

I like rice. Maybe I should use it more often than I do, but I don't. Fried rice, rice and veg, with fish, in soups, I've even used it as filler for meatloaf (I don't do gluten so no breadcrumbs). When my dog was sick I used it as part of his dog food recipe. I like the versatility of rice and I do store some. Last summer I finished a bag bought around 2020, it was a 20lb bag, so I don't go through a ton but it does get rotated through, very slowly.

we go through a 20 lb bag in about 2 months ( 3 adults)
I actually like rice better than pasta

I use leftover rice to make soup, it's just rice boiled until it dissolved, add chicken boulion cube, and some chopped green onion and a egg.
( this is soup before the main meal, not the full meal)