Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Risotto Last Night Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 08:17:02 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <8iusel-e6h.ln1@anthive.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 00:17:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="08ba5f934cfdd21d18b025287a4da622"; logging-data="2317878"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kmmERUZbFzLTfGXhoPFiJ" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nuIixOKeJ6yGC4dnHMh0H5wU/zk= Bytes: 2454 On Thu, 8 May 2025 21:43:31 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton wrote: >On 2025-05-08, Bruce wrote: >> On Thu, 8 May 2025 10:10:55 -0400, Dave Smith >> wrote: >> >>>On 2025-05-08 5:13 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote: >>>> On 2025-05-08, Hank Rogers wrote: >>> >>>>> It has almost no taste, unless there's added stuff, but it provides >>>>> carbohydrates, and can be a good food if you're feeling sickly. >>>> >>>> I like the taste of plain, white, unsalted rice. Not as an >>>> entire meal, but as a foil for other dishes. I don't get that >>>> at home, because my husband likes butter and salt in his rice. >>>> We eat at east Asian restaurants often enough to satisfy my >>>> desire for plain rice. >>> >>>I find plain white rice pretty darned boring on its own. I like to have >>>it with a nice spicy dish that will add nice flavours to the bland rice. >> >> That also applies to potatoes and pasta. They're a starting point. > >Either of which is fine with just butter, salt, and pepper. No >need for a spicy dish. Butter, there you go, one of the great flavour enhancers. Not on their own. -- Bruce