Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Doug Herr > <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> >> wrote: >> Sonny Carter wrote: >> >>>Amazingly, it does a nice job of cooking >> Zatarains rice, and keeping >>>it warm all afternoon. >> >> Not a good idea. ?Any >> cooked starchy food kept warm for several hours is an invitation for food >> poisoning. ?It's not likely you'd die from it but you'd sure want to. > > I think >> warm is not the right term. ?Hot is more like what it keeps > it. ? It works, >> because Zatarains is not a mushy rice. > > And then, "all afternoon" is a >> relative term in Louisiana. > > > -- >> > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches >> , >> Louisiana > (+31.754164,-093.099080) > > USA > > _____________________________________ >> __________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> for more information > > > If you look at the side of a Zatarain's rice ?box the stuff is not exactly > pure as the driven snow. Ingredients: ?brown rice, dehydrated vegetables > (onion, bell pepper), salt, paprika, garlic, autolyzed yeast, monosodium > glutamate, spices, soy sauce, caramel color, partially hydrogenated soybean > oil, silicon dioxide (flow agent). > Perhaps because they know their clientele is more so people from down there > who like to keep an open pot going. Not foodies from Vermont who are going > to use a solar powered microwave. > > Monosodium glutamate will preserve anything well into the next ice age and > make your sweet and sour shrimp florescent like a pink flamenco. > It is however the one additive I draw the line on. > If its in there I'm getting something else. Zatarains has plain rice too, not in a box. in a bag. I buy five pounds at a time. NO MSG -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA