The Frying Pan

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Cascabel

00:01

I like calrose fwiw, but it's probably more available here

and I really like the texture, I use it in a lot of cases where I would've used long-grain rice

5 hours later…

Journeyman Geek

05:33

@Catija there's a bit of science there

basically different types of rice have different hardness based on a protein

adding more water makes it mushy not softer

.... this feels like I need to ask my mom

also, rice cookers pretty much make it impossible to make rice wrong :D

Mom says add more water

Normally its 1:2 ish, but you can go up to 1:5

(by volume. )

Catija

Yeah... I’m talking more water as in... I make three cups... I fill the bowl a little bit past the line for 3... so possibly within the margin of error. Just... a hair over.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, that's probably hardly a difference

trying to write an answer but part of it is in a National Geographic article I read years ago, and we probably threw out :/

Catija

It seemed fine. I didn’t rinse it and used only water and salt and it got about the right stickiness.

Journeyman Geek

(I'm too lateeee)

... salt?

Catija

Still useful to have.

Unsalted Plain rice is gross... good for curry or with other stuff but as a dish... meh.

Journeyman Geek

05:46

Well you usually have it with a side

or mixed in with stuff

Catija

I have heard that Americans salt all sorts of weird stuff.

Journeyman Geek

Cascabel

salt is so good

Journeyman Geek

Well we feed our babies rice and yellow dahl. or Rice, milk and sugar

Cascabel

I had undersalted food growing up but I have learned

Catija

05:47

I eat white rice at Chinese restaurants with soy sauce on top.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija we went the other way

we salt stuff a lot and cut back

Our pickles though...

Catija

I like salty rice.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, we salt it later

Cascabel

I made a pasta salad with a bunch of stuff but including salted capers and yummmmm

Journeyman Geek

@Cascabel high BP in the family so... we kinda slowly tapered back

I do...sometimes... sneakly....

Cascabel

05:48

yeah that is fair

Catija

We had Thai for lunch. Great green curry. Lots of sauce. I put the rice into the curry.

Cascabel

ughhh curry is good too

Journeyman Geek

there's this thing. Its chillies marinnated in butter milk and deep fried

the commercial one is salty.

You fry em in ghee and its kinda the whole "Its so damned sinful you feel guilty but totally worth it" atop yogurt rice :D

Cascabel

I was on a medication for a while that gives some people salt cravings and I don't think it really did that to me but it was a handy excuse sometimes :)

oooooo fried chilies yes

Catija

I wish the Thai here were a bit better, though. It was amazing in Seattle growing up.

Journeyman Geek

05:50

@Cascabel If you can find a tamil-run store...

Cascabel

I wish my favorite thai place hadn't closed grrrrr

Journeyman Geek

oh ffs

OF COURSE its on amazon

Cascabel

what

Journeyman Geek

amazon.in/Urban-Platter-Dried-Chilly-Milagai/dp/B014RIL5O0

> Try a delicious 4-cheese Italian Risotto (made with Urban Platter Arborio Rice) and top up with a dozen of Fried Curd Chillies. YUMMA-MIA!

Catija

There’s a vegetarian Indian place here I got amazing okra ... better than southern fried okra.

Journeyman Geek

05:51

.... whut?

Oh, .in

do they cross ship?

Cascabel

whoa

well there's a zillion indian stores around here hopefully one of them has tamil stuff

Journeyman Geek

@Catija We love our okra :D

Cascabel

okra okra okra

Journeyman Geek

@Cascabel I'm not entirely sure if the obsession with yogurt rice and toppings is a tamil bramin thing.

(which may be easier or harder)

(small subcommunity of a linguistic subgroup. But... pretty passionate about our food :D)

Catija

It was part of a platter of some sort... 4 little bowls of different veggie dishes, paratha, soup?

Journeyman Geek

05:55

they always serve stuff with sides. All the sides :D

I would suspect they'd server paratha with some kinda kurma?

Catija

It was a meal, though.

Not like Korean side dishes.

Thali?

Journeyman Geek

possibly!

In the south we call that meals :D

(short for set meals. Yes. in english)

Catija

Hee hee.

Cascabel

ooo thali ooo banchan

Catija

I like the potato chunks... with the sweet sauce they’re soaked in.

I haven’t been to Korea House in way too long.

Cascabel

05:59

I used to live pretty near there!

A long long time ago

Catija

Oh yeah?! Nice! That’s the best Korean place I’ve found here. They were closed for renovations for a while but reopened. Looks a lot nicer.

Cascabel

A bit off of spicewood springs just on the other side of mopac

We went to the Serrano's over there way way more than Korea House though, I missed out

Journeyman Geek

I'm not sure if that's directions or a recipie ._.

Cascabel

It's cool it's still there!

Journeyman Geek

@Cascabel nothing worse than losing a restaurant that's been there for ever ._.

Cascabel

06:03

I knowwwww

both of the pizza places I grew up with are gone

Journeyman Geek

We lost Happy Realm a few years back :/

Catija

I don’t think I’ve been to serranos.

Cascabel

not that I'm there ever anymore anyways, but

Journeyman Geek

Was this old chinese place with anchient aunties as waitresses who spoke little english and monks as cooks

Cascabel

I remember it being reasonably good tex-mex, not incredible, but affordable and good

Catija

06:04

I’m not sure Swad is still open. They were so good but really hidden.

Cascabel

(Serrano's that is)

Journeyman Geek

they demolished the building it was in and everyone retired

Catija

That’s too bad.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah :/

place was literally unchanged since the 80s

Catija

Andy is worried about the coffee roasters he goes to getting closed because the owner retires.

3 hours later…

Stephie

09:01

@Catija he could switch careers? ^_^

2 hours later…

ElendilTheTall

11:23

@Cerberus Cerb <nod>

Journeyman Geek

12:10

The Singapore pancake man

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4 hours later…

Stephie

16:21

@ElendilTheTall Hi! I‘ve been wondering all day what an appropriate phrasing with regards to Brexit may be. „Condolences“? Not „congrats“, of course.

5 hours later…

AIQ

21:17

Stephieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hellooooo!!!!!!!!!! That's my first attempt at Pad Thai. hmm I didn't have any peanuts and shrimps ... Went with just chicken ...

Cascabel

22:01

@AIQ that looks gooooood!!

I appreciate how much green there is too

AIQ

@Cascabel Oh thanks very much. :D I am on a mission to learn how to cook thai and vietnamese food at an okay level.

1 hour later…

AIQ

23:08

@Cascabel Well, I am on a budget, I can't afford all the necessary items/ingredients now. Spinach is sooooooo expensive. And they become so little when cooked haha. I used spinach, broccoli, and green onions. I forgot tofu.

I also couldn't find any dried shrimp - may be I should have gone to a different grocery store ...

Cascabel

@AIQ I know I've seen those in a lot of asian stores around here (not specifically Thai)

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