What are you eating?

[David75]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.
Buy lots of frozen fish from a good frozen food chain.
Have a 50lbs sticky rice bag
Buy some vegetables/mushrooms/other once a week.

In the morning, remember to choose the fish you wish to eat at night, put it in the fridge to slowly defrost.
In the evening, prepare one of the vegetables, cut it in long and thin. If these are mushroom, just cut them no bigger than dices
Clean rice
Dry fish a little as it should be quite wet from defrost.
Put rice in the cooking bowl
Put the veggies and fish in the steam basket.
Turn the rice cooker on
When it stops, stir the rice, wait another 10 minutes on keep warm mode.
Serve.
The evening part of the preparation is around 35 minutes all included.
The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

[shinta|hikari]

Curry and udon are fine even when dieting, as long as they aren't loaded with fatty ingredients. It is all about portion sizes and eating smart.

[Animeniax]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.
Buy lots of frozen fish from a good frozen food chain.
Have a 50lbs sticky rice bag
Buy some vegetables/mushrooms/other once a week.

In the morning, remember to choose the fish you wish to eat at night, put it in the fridge to slowly defrost.
In the evening, prepare one of the vegetables, cut it in long and thin. If these are mushroom, just cut them no bigger than dices
Clean rice
Dry fish a little as it should be quite wet from defrost.
Put rice in the cooking bowl
Put the veggies and fish in the steam basket.
Turn the rice cooker on
When it stops, stir the rice, wait another 10 minutes on keep warm mode.
Serve.
The evening part of the preparation is around 35 minutes all included.
The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

This is basically how Asian families have lived for the past thousand years or so. I'd gotten away from it and started eating too many frozen American foods. I think I'll give this simple method a try though...

[rockmanj]

Friend of mine invited me over to his place for thanksgiving and oh man... his girlfriend's pie is the best pie i've ever eaten. Ridiculous.

Must be a hell of a friend

You guys must all have incredibly strong stomach. Pork should generally not be kept that long even while deep freeze.

You can actually consume frozen pork within 2 years, but the muscle tissue is so damaged it is tasteless and hard to eat. Add to that, I don't eat meat; other members of my family ate it.

Lately I have been eating a lot of noodles, specifically, "chewy noodles", a cold korean noodle dish that is oddly filling. I feel like I eat one serving and I am full for the day.

[shinta|hikari]

Dinuguan.

It is a Filipino dish made of pork liver, intestine, fat, all cooked in blood.



It has a bit of vinegar in it, so it is a mildly sour but deeply flavoured dish. It is a must try if you ever visit the Philippines. It is perfect with rice, or puto, a steamed sweet bread made with rice flour.

[Kraco]

There are some blood dishes over here as well, but I never learned to eat liver. It always tastes bad in my mouth. In fact even meat that has a kind of liverish nuance, like horse meat, doesn't suit my tastes.

[shinta|hikari]

Liver cooked well does not taste "raw" which is probably what you are talking about. If you fail at preparing it, it can be pretty bad.

[Buffalobiian]

Goose liver is pretty damn good, but you've got to be in the mood for a rich, buttery-smooth tastebud overload.

I don't think I'll mind blood dishes much. Not so sure about intestines though.. For some reason that organ has never been particularly entertaining for me. I might be persuaded into giving it a go though. It's certainly not at the bottom of the list. That belongs to penises.

[rockmanj]

Goose liver is pretty damn good, but you've got to be in the mood for a rich, buttery-smooth tastebud overload.

I don't think I'll mind blood dishes much. Not so sure about intestines though.. For some reason that organ has never been particularly entertaining for me. I might be persuaded into giving it a go though. It's certainly not at the bottom of the list. That belongs to penises.

I have had grilled intestines, which were really good. I had an aversion to it at first, but it grew on me

[erika08]

I'm eating barbeque chicken and vegetables salad because I love vegetables with lots of dressing,,

Ssikkek Korea BBQ

[Animeniax]

Starting a month ago, I decided it was time to eat something easy, fast, good to eat everynight.
Cheap rice cooker with steam basket is my cooker.

The results are stunning considering the $US25 rice cooker and the overall simplicity. Juices from fish and veggies mix very well with the sticky rice. Truth be told, sticky rice goes with almost anything, I had stunning results with traditional french cuisine.

The idea is that with a fairly low food cost, low cost cooker, fast preparation time, I can have light good and nice dinners every-night.

Of course, I have an expensive rice cooker that does not include a steamer. I have a standalone steamer but then that's more cleaning and you lose the flavor from the steamed fish and vegetables dripping on the rice as they cook. I could spend $50 on a new rice cooker/steamer but not sure it's worth it. Progress isn't always as progressive as we'd like it to be.

[David75]

I've had a so called advanced rice cooker. Too slow! And rice wasn't always that good.
Decided to try the incredibly simple (simplistic) rice cooker since the risk wasn't that high with its very low price.
Changed my everynight meals as I described before.

Should the thing last only a year, that would'nt even be a problem... But my guess is that it can last quite a long time since it
really is very low tech.
My guess is that I'll break the glass part or something before it malfunctions. That then will just be another 25 dollars

[Kraco]

That then will just be another 25 dollars

Did you order it from the USA or Canada (since you state the price in dollars)? Even if you say the appliance itself was 25 dollars, the shipping must have been as much on top of it.

I have sometimes considered getting a rice cooker, but I doubt I will any time soon, even though your description of its extended use in addition to simply cooking rice sounds very intriguing.

[Animeniax]

@David75: I assume you're cooking for 2, so what size rice cooker do you use? I plan to buy Zojirushi NHS-10 6-cup but the steamer pan looks too small.

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[Buffalobiian]

If your rice cooker doesn't have a steamer pan, just buy a steaming rack and a holey steamer bowl (or just a metal sieve)..

My mum doesn't know how to cook rice without a rice cooker. I just found that really funny.

[Animeniax]

I don't think those would work with my rice cooker. There's an internal sealing lid that would be compromised by a steamer pan/rack that rests on the lip of the internal cooking bowl. I'd like to find a steamer pan that sits further inside the cooking bowl, which is 8in/20.3cm in diameter at the lip.

It's funny how serious I'm getting about making this work... I really do need to improve my diet to include more rice and steamed food instead of oily, fried, and microwaved prepared food.

[David75]

25 dollars was a basis, truth is it was 19.90€ and was at a local store.

6 cups cooker is fine for 2. Remember it's for the evening and the intake should be lighter. Most of the intake has to be at breakfast and lunch.
Its true that I could use a larger steamer pan, But I have enough room for 2 portions of fish and carrots, mushrooms or any other easy to cook vegetable.
As Buff said, some steam basket are the correct size to fit the bowl top and have more room. Never tried that as I do with what I have. Problem would probably be with steam not being hot enough to cook everything the larger the pan gets. I don't know if you have a hardware store with such product in your area, that would help. Thankfully, the chinese/asian community in Paris and its region is quite large and we have great stores. Although I did by my cooker in a non chinese based department store...

The model you show really looks like the one I have, better brand for sure and the inox pan certainly is added value compared to the plastic one I have.

Consider that one maybe?
http://www.amazon.com/Aroma-ARC-743-...3843792&sr=1-5

I know this is not a japanese brand and not a brand at all when compared to zojirushi...
But it's got the qualities you need and room for steaming vegetables.

[Animeniax]

While my search for a steaming pan that will fit/work with my rice cooker continues in pursuit of healthier eating, I made this this weekend:

202791.jpg + bratwurst2.jpg + 2801245-shredded-cheddar-cheese-on-a-white-plate-and-background.jpg = DELICIOUS.

[rockmanj]

While my search for a steaming pan that will fit/work with my rice cooker continues in pursuit of healthier eating, I made this this weekend:

202791.jpg + bratwurst2.jpg + 2801245-shredded-cheddar-cheese-on-a-white-plate-and-background.jpg = DELICIOUS.

I like how you found the limpest sausages I have ever seen for a photo. No salad or anything to make you you are getting the fiber you need?

[Animeniax]

You like your sausages thick, rock hard, and manly, do you?

I get my fiber from other sources (hopefully). This meal was all about flavor.