A new favorite rice recipe:
Carrot Rice, a name which really totally fails to do it justice. Some butter-soaked onion, peanuts, ginger, and grated carrot. I added some raisins as well, and it's amazingly delicious (and cheap! I love delicious + cheap!).
Sometime soon, I am going to have to buy another semi-annual Giant Bag of Rice. I've finally gotten down to just what fits into a Tupperware cereal-saver bin.
Speaking of Tupperware! The party last night was actually pretty fun. Hosted by Sam, and Kate had her first time doing all the presenting (she's going to be an official Tupperware person, it looks like), Amanda (ex-PF crew) and Erin (PF crew), and a handful of Sam's female family members. My
cupcakes were loved by anyone who tried them (thanks YET again, Heidi!). I spent a liiiittle more than I'd planned to, but I'm really happy about what I bought (plus, it helps Sam'n'Kate out).
I ordered a handful of basic oval containers for my poor overloaded cupboards, a couple of containers actually designed for the freezer (yay soup-making!), a container that I was promised will KEEP MY VEGGIES EDIBLE for more than two days. The veggie-keeper, I'm actually really psyched about - I was informed that it will actually keep bagged salad fresh for like a week, instead of the 1-2 days it usually survives once opened. Though Tupperware prices look steep at first glance... a) After like two weeks, the veggie thing will pay for itself. I'm miserable every week about how many veggies I have to throw out because they've gone bad before I could finish them up. b) Most of my Tupperware are hand-me-downs from my mom, and they still work beautifully. (Some beige lids are looking a little grubby after so many years, but that's purely cosmetic.) Tupperware is like on par with china, it's stuff you invest in for the life of your kitchen.
I also. got. SOMETHING TO CHOP ONIONS!!! The
Tupperware Quick Chef. In like a minute, it made home fries out of three raw potatoes, with like no effort. It does not need to be plugged into anything. It has like three easily-washed pieces. It has a LID THAT CLOSES TIGHT and does not let onion fumes out. A liiittle pricey, but again, the lifetime thing. And the way my recipes have been going, I am going to get a LOT of use out of it. I've made a few salad dressings via Heidi lately, and they're insanely good, but using my blender to make them was pretty inefficient. Also, you can use a different attachment and do things like whip cream in this puppy. (Neither Kate nor her supervising sales rep could tell me if you can beat eggs to stiff peaks with it, buuuut, we shall see.) And make ice cream!!! So many amazing ice cream recipes I've seen this summer, and I've had nothing to make them with. This thing will do a soft-serve style, which is plenty fine by me.
...wow. I did not mean to go on so long about it. lmao. If I knew enough people around here, I probably could have signed up to host a party. Buuuut, everyone I know is PF crew, and they've had three parties to choose from in the last month already. I think it's pretty well overkilled.
After all the ordering was done, and most family filtered away, Amanda and her mom hung out and talked with Sam and I awhile, then Kate and Sam talked shop with me putting in my two cents now and again. It was actually kind of nice. I suppose it's good for me to get out and talk kitchen with other women now and again. (Tom.. is totally underwhelmed by the Tupperware thing. He thought I was totally nuts when I told him about it.)
In other news, now that Tom's down in NC, he's thinking about staying an extra day or two. His dad's knee is in pretty rough shape (surgery is going to happen in the near future), and, it sounds like he's pretty lonely down there. This is just as well for me - I polished off any potential remaining food-budget for the week at the Tupperware party, and Tom gets tired of rice pretty quickly. ;p
Labels: being social, cooking, life in general, product whoring
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