How Do You Cook Spanish Rice

Growing rice paper plants is a piece of cake if you live in a climate with relatively mild winters free of long, hard freezes. Pull suckers as they appear. Rice paper plant () is a shrubby, fast-growing perennial with gigantic, tropical-looking, palmate...

Nobody voluntarily eats rice for three meals a day! But for those who must subsist on rice, the effects of malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies are horrifying. Straight Vitamin A can be obtained from any animal product, especially things like calf liver...

You can do this at any temperature between 350 and 500. As the seasoning layer builds and matures, however, you'll find that foods release more easily.If you are cooking over an open fire or coals, coat the bottom of the OUTSIDE of the pan with liquid...

No pre-packaged deli stuff here, she does it all from scratch. Cooking is a natural extension to our gardens and along with some fabulous gardeners, we have some very talented cooks here as well.

Like most flowering shrubs, Plumbago grows most vigorously and blooms most profusely with regular pruning.Plumbago shrubs produce clusters of five-petaled blooms.Prune Plumbagos regularly to maintain shape and form, and to prevent them from outgrowing...

Then I remember that every other person that populates these cities, states and countries—all 7 billion of them, from the cashiers at the local grocery store and the baristas at my favorite coffee shop to the scientists in Antarctica and the monks in...

Names aside, the advantage of soda recipes over fermentation is time. For kids especially, ginger beer is a better than soft drinks; with a choice of recipes ranging from quickly-made ales through to traditional fermentation, there are options for the...

All rights reserved. I cannot tell you those answers; maybe you can tell me. To release the seeds, rub the pods between your fingers until the seeds fall out. Other uses for fresh basil include some of my favorites, such as in toppings for homemade Garden...

In my zone 8 garden, rosemary is an evergreen bush.The ‘ARP' cultivar is said to be the hardiest in zones 6 to 7.It can be used straight or mixed with other herbs for an aromatic bath.It is used as a sore muscle soak or to relieve cold symptoms.You...

The essential oil can be used straight for athlete's foot, bug bites and onburns. As it dries in my home, I enjoy the fragrance, as well as the comments from family and friends, "I love the way your house smells!"

I added a cathead biscuit and that man was wholly devoted to me for life. But it also taught me to appreciate the simple joys of good eating. The long, lankywhich surrounded our country home were more like companions to me than trees.

We can make hominy out of dried yellow or white corn, the taste has very little difference and the process and nutritional value is all the same. Also in the southwest, they grind small hominy until it is very fine and use it for tamale and tortilla dough.The...

After pouring off most of the drippings, we place the tender, wet greens in the pan on top of the bacon and cover them long enough for steam to permeate the leaves and seal in the flavor of the bacon.

If you are lucky enough to have a food dehydrator, place them in it on low heat. Herb gardeners are anxious to include this plant in their gardens for its usefulness and novelty. Dried leaves will be bright green and crumbly.

This can leave you with a whole lot of cilantro. To make a cilantro filled version, slice a second onion into rings and saute it in a little ghee or butter in a Dutch oven or other stove-top safe casserole dish.

This indentation is generally softer than the others are, and easily pierced with a hammer and large nail, making just the right size hole for a straw.The smaller, greener coconuts contain a naturally effervescent water that is sweet and refreshing.

It's not too late! You can still get the most out of your herbs this summer! Maybe you blanched at the price of fresh herbs in the produce section this spring, or you were seduced by a bright pot of basil at your local nursery, and you thought, "Hey!...

But because it is fortified, it will not age as quickly as wine does once open. The wine grape juice initially fThe less delicate wines will be fortified to 17-18% alcohol, which is enough alcohol to kill the yeast.

For this method, you boil the fruit in the sugar syrup until it achieves your desired consistency. Candied apple, pear, peach, apricots, cherry, fig, and plums produced in certain regions of Spain (known as Frutas de Aragon) are sometimes steeped in liqueur...

Plant the ginger rhizome pieces 6 to 8 inches apart at the bottom of a 1-foot furrow. Overwintering Ginger Ginger cannot withstand freezing temperatures. If you live in a tropical climate, you can plant these ginger rhizomes outdoors at any time after...

The oldest record of cauliflower dates back to the 6th century B.C. Pliny wrote about it in the 2nd century after Christ.In the 12th century three varieties were described infor more than a thousand years and it was mentioned as growing inby European...

Unless it's a chewy, buttery oatmeal cookie hot out of the oven with a glass of cold milk.Oatmeal is one of those staples that most of us take for granted. Oat straw is an important supplementary feed on many farms, and fall-sown oats provide winter livestock...

Sometimes this is accomplished by adding dill pickles or chopped dill relish to dishes such as egg salad, deviled eggs or egg-laden potato salad / chicken salad. To make a batch two cucumbers are seeded, then minced (or in more modern terms, whirled in...

At first I used to dry them between 2 sheets of paper; then I tried keeping them in a jar, with salt; but the most effective, which saves the flavor, is freezing. In our country we cook a lot of food, each meal having a soup as an entree and a casserole...

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: oil is oil is oil.report on canola and other oilseeds from July, 2014, canola is the third most widely consumed oil in the world, with soybean oil and palm oil being first and second, respectively.I'm sure you've...

Gardeners in the mid- and northern regions will need to wait a bit longer.Growing eggplants can be a test of patience. Cut each eggplant at the stem (watch out for thorns on the stem - some have them) with a sharp knife or gardening scissors.

Add five or six cups of tomatoes, a little red wine, and a spoonful of sugar. After all, it is a member of the mint family. But it can easily grow out of its intended bed. The herb is a "must" in traditional recipes for black bean soup, refried beans...