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Try This: Umeshiso Maki Sushi

Have you ever had umeshiso maki sushi? The next time you are in a sushi bar, ask the chef if they can make it for you. It's a simple maki roll with two fillings; umeboshi pickled plums and fresh s...

Making a pot of rice to serve with dinner is nearly automatic. But having plain rice day after day can get...well...a little boring, don't you think? That's why we've started experimenting with adding...

Recipe Recommendation: Kyoto Foodie's Roasted Chestnut Rice

Recently, I came across a post on Kyoto Foodie (one of my new favorite food blogs!) about a seasonal dish called yakikuri gohan, or roasted chestnut rice. The ingredients were few and simple, and see...

Five Ways to Eat: Brown Rice

Do you eat brown rice? Or is it only white rice for you? We love brown rice, and even though it's not completely interchangeable with white rice, it has pleasures and merits all its own. Here are a fe...

Do You Wash Your Rice Before Cooking?

Personally, I've never washed my rice before cooking, but I've seen other people insist that this step is essential. So, I'd like to ask you, dear readers: do you wash your rice before cooking? If s...

How To Make Chirashi At Home

Chirashi, also called chirashizushi (ちらし寿司) is one of my favorite Japanese meals. The word "chirashi" means "scattered," so this is basically a big bowl of rice mixed with fish, vegetables,...

What's The Difference Between Jasmine and Basmati Rice?

For a long time, I thought jasmine rice and basmati rice were the same thing, and I am certain I am not alone in this misconception. It was only recently that I discovered they are two different rice...

Making Horchata: Which Rice Is Best?

Last week's post on aguas frescas gave us a mean craving for Mexican-style horchata, a refreshing drink made with rice, cinnamon, and sugar. We decided to try making a batch at home and wound up makin...

Five Ideas for Leftover Rice

As much as we adore a steaming pot of freshly cooked rice, we've always had trouble mustering much enthusiasm once it crosses into the land of leftovers. Sure, there's fried rice, which can be delicio...

Quick Tip: Try Mixing Grains!

At a recent dinner party, a bowl of grains was passed around and when it got to me, I couldn't for the life of me figure out what grain it was. After trying a few bites, I finally (and somewhat sheepi...

Good Use for Leftovers: Arancini

As the picture suggests, these are nothing more than fried rice balls, and they are a great way to use leftover risotto or even plain white rice. Most of them have a surprise inside. Do you know what ...

Recipe Redux: Breakfast Poha with Coconut

This recipe has been on my mind for a long time — over a year, in fact. It was published right here on The Kitchn as part of a kitchen tour: Devesh and Tara's Spice Pantry. It just looked so goo...

Massa Organics: California Whole Grain Brown Rice

We have almost 500 people signed up for The Kitchn Cure and Week One's assignment has them cleaning out their cupboards. I was wiping my shelves down last night and remembered how much I love my brown...

Pantry Organization: Storing Many Half-Empty Bags in One Large Container

Here's the thing with storing rice and grains: We love the look of vintage glass jars or uniform plastic canisters, but we can't fit more than a few in our narrow cabinets. Bags smush down more easily...

Good Question: Help Me Enjoy Brown Rice

Monica recently switched from white rice to brown, but she's not enjoying it very much! Can you help her liven up her rice? Recently, as per my doctor's recommendations for a weight loss plan, I swi...

How Do You Reheat Rice?

As we waited for our leftover white rice to reheat in the microwave yesterday, we started to ponder the question of reheated rice. We almost always use the microwave to warm up leftovers, but it often...

Look! Sexy Rice Cooker Design

We frankly never thought we'd be calling a rice cooker sexy. But this design concept from Sang Jang Lee really deserves the description. In fact, it was designed to be sculptural and decorative as wel...

Recipe: Lemon Rice Pudding

If you like rice pudding at all, this is for you. When I first read this recipe in Laurie Colwin's More Home Cooking, with her description of how the lemon peel dissolves into the slow-cooked, creamy,...

Recipe for Frugal Times: Muhjadarrah

Muhjadarrah is an Arabic dish, made with a few, very basic ingredients: rice, lentils, onion and oil. That's it! It will go a long way towards satisfying many of your New Year's culinary intentions...

Recipe Recommendation: Mushroom Casserole from 101 Cookbooks

You know how sometimes you see a recipe, or even just hear someone talking about it, and you just know you're going to have to make that for yourself very soon? That was this mushroom casserole recipe...

Recipe: Hot and Sour Mushroom, Cabbage, and Rice Soup

It's soup weather. We are about to start yet another pot, but only because we just finished off this yummy soup. It came straight out of odd ingredients in the fridge and an instinctive craving for ca...

Good Product: Trader Joe's Wild Rice

When we talked about our love of wild rice a few months ago, several of you mentioned buying it at Trader Joe's. We looked for it the next time we were in the store, and sure enough, there it was!...

Harvest Time: How To Thresh Rice

Did you know that over 450 million tons of rice are consumed every year? It's a daily staple for millions of people, and after maize, it is the second most consumed cereal grain in the world. Our gall...

Harvest Time: Rice in Japan, China, and Bangladesh

Rice is a beautiful crop. We had a hard time choosing photos to show here; there are so many beautiful images of that ancient food staple and its harvest. Here are just a few shots of rice and some of...

Look! Arborio Rice at Trader Joe's

We're not sure if this is a new product or if it's been there all along, but we were excited to discover arborio rice on a recent shopping foray to Trader Joe's!...

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