anybody here ever try to make a rice for sushi without buying sushi rice, i have a short grain rice i kinda wouldnt mind cooking up

You can use regular short grain rice. Here's a recipe from Alton Brown:

foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/sushi-rice-recipe

@Jolenealaska thanks

sure thing!

think i should also further rinse the rice before starting

oh

wait

thats actually the first step

herp de derp

haha

now what should i put in the sushi

Presumably raw fish

anything out of the ordinary you've tried and liked?

hides

heh, not a sushi fan?

Be sure to use kosher salt or just over 1/2 the amount of table salt. The first comments to the recipe make that clear.

Never had the stuff. ;p

My favorites are eel and California Roll

ha, i probably wouldnt have listened to him on the salt anways, i cook so much rice that wouldve stood out to me as wtf

@Jolenealaska ikr, really wishing i had avocado right now

LOL the reviews are worth a look, 1 poor guy is really getting exasperated.

you mean heveneranton

yea lol

@Catija You introduced a blog in one of your answers, I failed to find it in my bookmarks, could you post a link to it?

I remember it being about soft peaks and stiff peaks, but I may be wrong

@Gigili This? joepastry.com/category/techniques/whipping-egg-whites

o/

Hi Baby!

hi there

how goes it

Meh. I have a doctor's appointment in the morning. I don't wanna.

did you hear about your MS treatment btw?

It's not approved yet, but it's looking good for summer.

sweet!

Lots of lab work and 2 sonograms first.

But if the kind of stuff they're making sure isn't happening were happening, I'd probably feel sick. I don't.

cool, sounds very promising

Yep, I'm hoping for it. The studies are promising. Of course no one has data as far as what happens after 7 years, but that's just the nature of the beast.

who dares wins eh?

Something like that!

I am sure looking forward to being able to buy groceries next week. I'm hungry.

Have you ever had a tamale?

nope

think we've talked about that before

you need to buy things that will stretch to make big meals that you can then freeze and have till the next time you have money

giant vegetable and bean-rich stews

Probably, there's a type I've never made or tried on ATK. I'm just torturing myself looking at it. I'm also watching Law & Order. Colm Meany is guest starring,

Tamales are actually very thrifty, just not very healthy.

o/

I am going to get rice, beans and canned veggies ect at Sam's Club next week too,

Hi Stephie!

@Jolenealaska I have similar plans, a local store has a big anniversary sale. 10% on everything.

@Stephie morning

Gotta love a sale!

Well, guys, I have an appointment tomorrow, so I should get to bed. Have a good day and weekend!

Night. Take care

today's spirit animal:

@ElendilTheTall good find! Many of us seem like that today. TFIF.

And I'll go home any minute, I just have to clean up my desk and deliver some paper stuff.

That's darling!

No chance of sleep anytime soon

Why? Doesn't kitty help you?

Kitty has shown herself to very trainable. She is a great bed partner now. I'm just on an off-kilter schedule

And.....

... I'm out!

About time. I get paid for 20 hours a week and I worked 29 this week.

And only because I could shift a few meetings I managed to stay under 30.

Thanks out to Jefromi on advice to get profiles merged. Looked silly having two with the same name and the way they seemed randomly linked. Thanks all around to mods and most members for the way the site is run. Having tried admin duties elsewhere before: You are all far better than me with dealing in a fair and reasonable manner.

@dlb thank you for the kind words!

dealing with people kindly is a challenge indeed. I like to think we are getting better at it with time.

@dlb that happens a lot to new users. If you got them merged, you're above the curve ;p

@dlb woohoo having suggested merging to plenty of people before it's nice to see someone actually do it!

and thank you for the rest too.

@dlb Well thank you! What a nice thing to see when I'm just popping in.

Note to self: Stay away from the Nutrition proposal. No good can come of it.

not even... good nutrition?

@Jefromi It has a lot of questions already that are what I consider "questionable"... pseudo-science sort of "nutrition".

I'm shocked, shocked.

... pretty sure I'm getting some sarcasm there...

@Catija but yes, I agree that they need to think about how they will ask people to support their answers, and what they will do about cases where people try to cite blogs etc that are cherry-picking studies, and what they'll do about questions where multiple people post conflicting answers, with or without evidence

and realistically, the answer probably can't be anything but "we have no idea, that sounds impossible to deal with"

Yeah. The problem for me is that nutrition is an actual field but a lot of things a nutritionist probably wouldn't consider part of their field would potentially be covered on that site.

@Catija limiting it to things a nutritionist considers part of their field probably doesn't even help, because it's still going to get answers from amateurs

@Jefromi Sure but that's where voting and deleting comes in... if it's not supported by data, it doesn't stay. Cooking is pretty lax when it comes to requiring anything more than personal experience... which is fine since sometimes that's sufficient... but if you're trying to be a more scientific site, you need to back up your answers.

@Catija It's very optimistic to think that voting and deleting will actually work for things like that.

Nutrition is full of, perhaps dominated by, questions which have data to support multiple widely-held, conflicting viewpoints.

People can have completely unproductive arguments even when they are providing evidence.

@Jefromi It's only optimistic if I think the site could ever succeed... which I don't. If it's truly a matter of scientific nutrition, I would think it'd be on topic over on health, where dietetics is on topic.

My point is you said "the problem is [a slice of the scope]" - but I'm saying, I think the core scope is problematic, even if there's some that's worse.

Oh, yeah. That's definitely true. I'm sure that if you go to three different dietitians they'll all give you different recommendations... we still can't figure out if cholesterol is good or bad.... or if there's "good" and "bad" cholesterol... and which camp do eggs fall into... is gluten killing us?... blah blah blah.

Yeah, but it's worse, because it's not just professional disagreement, it's amateurs armed with a study that supports their view.

... "study"...

the studies themselves are often totally fine, it's the conclusions drawn by amateurs that go off the rails.

That's fair. I've seen a lot of clickbait articles circling Facebook that take a tiny chunk of a study and make it out to be the main point... and then miss the entire findings.