new place to buy long grain rice

When I was cooking for my family I used rice as a filler in my burritos and enchiladas--also leftover potatoes. Burritos are great for using leftovers! I also used rice instead of noodles in casseroles like tuna, beef and cheesy chicken and broccoli casseroles. Any dish that uses potatoes or noodles can use rice instead. I also add it to soups like you do. I remember a long time ago I came across a recipe for porcupine balls, which was meatballs that contained uncooked rice. You put them in the crockpot with beef broth and they were done when the rice was tender and you could see it sticking out from the meatballs.

First the price of the rice you have mentioned is very cheap, I wonder how we can afford that here. As far as I can tell, 30/Kls is the cheapest price here in the Philippines. Sorry I haven't been to market for a long time. Filipinos love to eat rice toppings, but in the province they use to make sticky rice stuffed with coconut and sugar, they call it BIKO. Other local delicacies made from rice are suman, palitaw, unda-unday, champorado, arroz caldo, and many others.

That's a good price! And to have it from the US makes it even better. I'll have to look for it at our Dollar Tree. I use rice quite a bit because I don't care for potatoes every day. I use it in soup and stew, in skillet meals and casseroles as well as things like Spanish rice, rice pudding and so on. If you look online you should be able to find a lot of recipes using rice.

I use brown rice, so I am not sure that would help me, but you know, I read an e mail about shopping in America. It seems there are tons of items made or grown in America that are cheaper than imports and if we would just be sure to read the labels we would be sending people back to work in America. It almost seems like you have to have a data base in your head about prices to know what to buy where.

I make a chicken type stew with rice that is quite tasty. In a pot, soften an onion with olive oil, then add tomato, and then chicken, cut into smallish pieces, stew until about half done add water waite for it to boil and then add rice, when both rice and chicken is cooked serve. You can flavour with your preferred spices, add vegetables like peas, carrots or mushrooms. I don't follow a strict recipe. I really enjoy eating rice with curry, both chicken and beef curry. The advantage of curry is that since it can take a long time to cook you can use harder but often tastier meat for the meal, the advantage of harder meat is it is often cheaper. I often use rice as a side dish, plain or with various other ingredients, it is a very quick and tasty side dish.

I too have been changing my normal brand of rice. For many years I have stuck with the same brand but with times being a bit hard I have opted for selecting the cheaper brands. I was not aware that the Dollar Stores were carrying rice so I will have to take a look around here. I do like my regular one but since I do not only make white rice I have found that my herbs and spices really have not made a difference as to which one I do purchase. We live an learn, lol.

I never really used a lot of rice until after making a trip to Asia. I live three years in China with several trips to Thailand during school breaks so I wound up eating lots of rice while there. I do occasionally eat rice here, but don't have the proper equipment to cook it right. If I make a soup or stew I will include a cup of rice or something but other than that I don't use it much. I know it is a good filler and perhaps once I run out of turkey I will start using it more. Happy thanksgiving!!!