-=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Joe Mackey on 01-24-09 17:04 <=-

Happy New Year!  (Lunar, of course)

 >   I never shifted sides.  I was always against instant rice.  I do admit,
 > for purposes of full disclosure, of having cooked and eaten it, but it
 > was not a pleasant experience and something I don't care to repeat.

 CS> I saw some instant rice once in the raw stage.  It looked like someone
 CS> had fuglied it's butt end and it had a butt on both ends...

Nasty stuff, particularly by itself...  but I have used it in things
that need something to soak up lots of liquid fast... like in my taco
"casserole" when it's too runny...  I've had the instant brown rice on
hand... but I don't use it often enough for it not to go stale or buggy
on me... 

ttyl      neb

... Sects!  Sects!  Sects!  Is that all Monks think about?