In one bite or two, twist off the top and excavate the peanut butter with your tongue, alternating sips of a soda with crunchy bites of sandwiched cracker or sharing one or two crackers with a less fortunate friend who may not have enough change for the vending machine.
And that red box with big white letters sprawling across the front will forever be stamped in my memory as my first touchpoint with rice.. Photo by Antonis Achilleos / Prop Styling by Christina Daley / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey.A Guide to Rice Types Around the World.
My parents served it alongside, like, three out of six of our weekly meals.The seventh, most sacred day was reserved for Junk Food Friday, but that's another story for another time.My busy parents relied mostly on large, filling dishes that either simmered all day in a slow cooker or could be whipped up with a few jarred or canned ingredients at the end of a long workday.
On a typical night in the Sprewer household you would find us sitting around the kitchen table, late, but together, dining on pot roast, whole roasted chicken (carcasses preserved for leftovers soup), chili, spaghetti, steak and gravy, or fried something or another.Always with a vegetable (often frozen) and a starch which was usually potatoes, cornbread, or—you guessed it—Minute Rice.. We have a person of color to thank for the marvel of modern ingenuity that is Minute Rice.. And honestly, after spending your evening roasting a chicken or nursing a sauce, what working parent has time for a 30-minute-long temperamental experiment in which the rice might turn out mushy or stiff while the rest of dinner is on the table waiting?
So I totally get my parents' proclivity towards Minute RIce.
I still consider myself a fan of the stuff.It arrives in a velvet-lined box and is stamped with Le Creuset’s signature branding, so it feels like a little treat for wine lovers of all experience levels.
Anyone who’s ever opened a bottle of flat next-day bubbly will appreciate this useful tool, and our tests proved it’s a worthy and practical Fave.. KitchenAid Design Series Evergreen Stand Mixer.$800 at Kitchenaid.
KitchenAid’s classic 5-quart.usually needs no introduction, but the Evergreen Design Series has made us fall in love all over again.