The more I work toward healthy eating (and exercise) habits, the more I’m convinced that pre-packaged foods are a major part of the problems we all face. Of course, we can’t get away from them totally — but some are better than others, and (with a little work) the better ones can turn out to be quite tasty.
To be a bit more specific, experimenting with my rice dish has finally paid off with something fairly tasty and versatile!
Like all the other recipes I’ve posted, this can be made with ingredients you can stash in a file cabinet at work — no refrigeration required! It takes 15-20 minutes to prepare, which isn’t that much if you consider how long it takes to drive to a restaurant and get served.
CubeDweller Rice
3/4 c. instant brown rice
1 c. water
5 pearl onions, peeled & halved or 3 cipollini onions, peeled & quartered
3 cloves garlic, peeled & diced*
5 (sun-)dried tomatoes, broken up**
1 tsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp. herb mix (e.g. Mrs. Dash®)
Combine rice, water, onions, garlic, and tomatoes in a microwave pot. Cover (a paper towel is better than nothing) and microwave on high for 7 minutes. Stir in the olive oil and herb mix. Let stand for a minute before eating.
You can use it as-is for a side dish, or with tortillas & your favorite protein source for tacos, or toss in some smoked oysters at the last minute of microwaving for a passable paella.
* I can’t taste the garlic if I press it.
**Finding & adding the tomatoes made this dish happen for me.
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OK, Katie, I’m stumped: how do you make the “more” thing work?
Yum!!
FAR, if you look at the toolbar where you write the post, toward the right side of it you’ll find a cute little graphic that looks like a small rectangle on top of a dotted line on top of a bigger rectangle. That’s the “More” thingee. You just click that wherever you want it to appear, and voila.
FARfetched, you post the best recipes. I am all set to make it, wondering if all the ingredients are present – and then you go and remind us that smoked oysters exist, and suggest that we defile this perfectly fine dish with them.
It’s too bad I’m not trying to lose weight. Between you and Gooserock and his mackerel custards and things, I would be a sylph. Yes, men can be sylphs, if we are secure enough, and I am.
Sylph… sylph… back in my Linux days, I used a mail client called Sylpheed.Um… presses F8, queries the dictionary widget
“2. a mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail. Genus Aglaiocercus (and Neolesbia), family Trochilidae: three species.” Wow… a diabetic hummingbird? Wouldn’t that be teh suxx?
Like I said, it’s versatile — paella is only one thing to do with it. That’s the fun thing about recipes… it’s like hacking, but you get to eat it. Fix it the way you like it & tell us what you did!
That is ME, FARfetched! A diabetic hummingbird! You have crystallized perfectly this metabolic travesty, this endocrine injustice!
Why couldn’t some humorless raw food vegan in original 1968 Birkenstocks get diabetes? They are already eating the perfect diet for it, and LIKING it, as much as they will ever like anything, bless their hearts, they didn’t even like Woodstock.
Hi, FAR — I love this recipe, everything but the garlic. I’m not going to store garlic in my desk at work. I’m just not.
I even like the idea of adding smoked oysters to it and putting it in a tortilla. If Amazing Race wasn’t starting right now, I’d run to the store to buy all the stuff!
kbird how do you expect to keep your desk free of evil spirits if you don’t keep any garlic in it?
Why couldn’t some humorless raw food vegan in original 1968 Birkenstocks get diabetes?
I would have thought a vegan diet would be rather high in carbs to make up for the lack of protein. Seems like all the low/no-meat diets I’ve ever seen tend to be that way.
And aren’t Birkenstocks made of… leather?
Yes. Baby seal, I think.
(spewing water all over my monitor)
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