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Re: Brown rice in recipes calling for white... & common sense cooking with PCOS
From: Koolaide (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:52:03 -0500 (CDT)
Hi there, you may want to check out dr.mirkin.com. He is a doctor whose
wife is a dietician and has loads of great recipes for healthy eating as
well as diabetics. She uses so much rice and unrefined stuff it's
great. Have a peek, they even have a cookbook out. For the record,
brown rice is not the same as wild rice. It's wild rice you are looking
for to use in place of white. It's almost black in colour and tastes
really really nutty. It's awesome. I use double the water to rice
ratio and add some chicken or veg. stock to the cooking water and it
does cook for appr. 1 hour. I always drain and rinse before I serve it
cause I don't like the slimy bit ! Hope this helps some. Take care,
Bonnie
At Mon, 14 Oct 2002, anonymous wrote:
>
>OK, this is only peripherally related to PCOS... but some of you might
>know the answer so I'm asking. :-)
>
>I have this THEORY - and maybe if I could just get off the caffeine for
>more than 2 weeks at a time, I could actually test it - that a lot of
>our problems, as well as a lot of the problems of other Americans (with
>regard to our being the fattest nation on the planet) don't have to do
>with our eating carbs, or fat, but rather, bad types of both. Everything
>we eat is refined, or altered, or full of weird ingredients... unless
>you cook most things yourself ... and I think that THAT is our problem.
>So, just so no one says, you shouldn't be eating carbs anyway, Jodi...
>I'm just making clear that THAT is my theory. :-)
>
>Having little else to do now that we've moved besides be the best
>housewife in the world (not so easy since we need to buy a new
>sweeper... but other than that I've been doing very well, thank you) I
>have been cooking up some good, wholesome, healthy dinners. Tonight I
>want to make porcupines. In case you haven't eaten these, they are
>meatballs with rice in them cooked in a tomato sauce, usually a
>tomato-soup based sauce. Using lean ground meat is easy, using tomato
>sauce in place of corn-syrup filled tomato soup is easy... but what if
>I used brown rice instead of white? I have only ever made these with
>white rice, as every recipe I have ever seen for these calls for white
>rice.
>I have always wanted to use brown, but never wanted to find out until
>dinner is ready that this was a very bad idea.
>
>So... since these things cook for over an hour, which is long enoough
>to cook brown rice... it seems it should work fine. So, any bets on
>whether or not this will work? Also, anyone interested in a little
>common sense recipe exchange? It's easy to find low-carb cooking web
>sites... but I am not interested in low-carb cooking. I don't think
>it's natural. It's easy to find diet recipe web sites... but I don't
>think most of those are so great either. And then it's easy to find all
>vegetarian web sites, which use natural ingredients... but it seems
>like people who willingly eat meat are not interested in eating brown
>rice... and people who willingly eat brown rice do not willingly eat
>meat. I think I am healthier as a meat eater, so don't want to just eat
>a vegetarian diet again. What I'd like to do is find out what sort of
>back to basics, real-life-ingredients recipes other cysters find to be
>good from a PCOS standpoint, food that can actually be put on the table
>and willingly consumed by a husband who thinks Hamburger Helper is
>actually good eatin'. (And OK, I admit myself that some of the flavors
>aren't that bad... but I'd rather cook something up myself, something
>similar, but minus all those weird ingredients!!!!!!!) So, good recipes
>ladies? What about a PCOS cookbook to raise funds for PCOSA? (I've
>really got some time on my hands here, heh... and I know I'm not the
>only one finding this eating thing to be a puzzle!)
>
>- jodi
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