10-28-2024, 07:39 PM
(10-27-2024, 03:53 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: Hello I am making beans and onions and rice again today and it made me think about this thread. I have no garlic this time so I may just use a sprinkle of garlic powder does anyone have strong opinions on that? Also I had to return a bag of rice to the grocery store because I got sustainable non-gmo white basmati rice instead of organic sustainable non-gmo white basmati rice, hahaha such a hippy; I found it in the bulk section much cheaper! Bulk foods are great at the fancy grocery stores because they are much cheaper than the preweighed but they are not recommended at the cheap grocery stores because they are low quality. For example I just got two pounds of granola at like half the price of the boxes on the shelf! Also I have a lemon to add this time.
That is all, I am just ranting pro forma performa because I want to hear some more secret recipes!
There are many occasions where I prefer garlic powder over fresh. I usually only use fresh if I am carmelizing them with onions. When you buy your rice, or dried beans, or flour or corn meal or corn starch, or dried pasta, put it into a ziplock and let it sit in your freezer for 24 hours. That makes the onboard weevil eggs expand and kills them. Products treated so will never develop flour or food weevils. The weevils don't "find" your food, they are born into it. Their eggs are a byproduct of food processing. People who live in predominantly cold areas don't have to fuss with this. Fortunately for us, weevil eggs are good healthy protein, because we've all been eating them all our lives. I hope this insight hasn't been upsetting to anyone.
