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klsiegel320Sigh...nice to have a quiet, peaceful day once in a while. Of course, there's nothing much to tell, on a quiet, peaceful day...I've done a load of laundry, run the dishwasher, made my dinner, taken the garbage to the dumpster and fetched the mail (or rather checked the empty mailbox), done my weekly backup of files, and now I'm typing the not-quite-daily LiveJournal entry.
A couple months ago, when I first moved into the corporate apartment, I made a trip to World Market. This place is a cross between Pier One and BJ's, with a food department. And in this place, I found a package of "Forbidden Rice," described on the package as a delicacy from China that once upon a time was cultivated only for the Emperor. It's black rice, described as having a soft nutty texture and flavor.
What the package doesn't tell you is that this rice turns the water you're cooking it in purple--very purple. And boiling rice tends to splatter...
So anyway, I bought this rice. To go with it, I got a jar of tikka masala sauce, and sauteed up some chicken, then simmered it in the sauce for a while while the rice finished cooking. My original thought was that this would be an exotic blend of flavors and textures.
What it looks like is very tiny black beans with Chicken Tikka Masala over it...and the red yogurt sauce just doesn't work as well with deep purple rice as I'd originally thought...
Gotta say, it tastes pretty good. Just look kinda awful. Sigh...
That really is about all; as long as I don't brood on the things I can't change, it's not too bad. Oh - and my husband who was supposed to come down tonight had me reschedule his trip for next weekend, because he wasn't really just too happy to fly through the remains of Isabel. Turns out his flight was only delayed about half an hour, and that was because of runway closings due to repaving, and from what I can see on the weather maps, they'd've been flying well eastward of most of the nastiness.
On the other hand, it turns out that this weekend there is so much going on in Atlanta that we're expecting gridlock - four local college football games; Braves v. Marlins; and a host of other stuff. So maybe it turns out to be just as well.
That really is about all, for now. More later.
A couple months ago, when I first moved into the corporate apartment, I made a trip to World Market. This place is a cross between Pier One and BJ's, with a food department. And in this place, I found a package of "Forbidden Rice," described on the package as a delicacy from China that once upon a time was cultivated only for the Emperor. It's black rice, described as having a soft nutty texture and flavor.
What the package doesn't tell you is that this rice turns the water you're cooking it in purple--very purple. And boiling rice tends to splatter...
So anyway, I bought this rice. To go with it, I got a jar of tikka masala sauce, and sauteed up some chicken, then simmered it in the sauce for a while while the rice finished cooking. My original thought was that this would be an exotic blend of flavors and textures.
What it looks like is very tiny black beans with Chicken Tikka Masala over it...and the red yogurt sauce just doesn't work as well with deep purple rice as I'd originally thought...
Gotta say, it tastes pretty good. Just look kinda awful. Sigh...
That really is about all; as long as I don't brood on the things I can't change, it's not too bad. Oh - and my husband who was supposed to come down tonight had me reschedule his trip for next weekend, because he wasn't really just too happy to fly through the remains of Isabel. Turns out his flight was only delayed about half an hour, and that was because of runway closings due to repaving, and from what I can see on the weather maps, they'd've been flying well eastward of most of the nastiness.
On the other hand, it turns out that this weekend there is so much going on in Atlanta that we're expecting gridlock - four local college football games; Braves v. Marlins; and a host of other stuff. So maybe it turns out to be just as well.
That really is about all, for now. More later.
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Purple! rice
Date: 2003-09-24 08:13 pm (UTC)