On Rice: 60 Fast and Easy Toppings That Make the Meal (Paperback)

~ (Author), Frankie Frankeny (Photographer) "rice is the staple food for more than one and a half billion people..." (more)
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Instead of pasta, try rice as the base for meals. Every day more than one and a half billion people around the world rely on rice as their mainstay. This gives Rick Rodgers lots of ethnic inspiration for toppings to serve over steamed or boiled rice. Rodgers packs flavor into recipes using a modest number of ingredients. Lots of these dishes cook in less than 30 minutes, so they can even qualify for week-night dinners. On Rice includes a comprehensive, illustrated guide to types of rice and careful instructions for cooking them. And be sure to check out the dessert recipes-- they're scrumptious ways to use leftover rice.

Product Description

On Rice includes 70 simple, reliable recipes for an international array of delicious sauces, stews, and stir-frys to serves over rice, most of which can be prepared in less than 30 minutes. Also included is information on methods for preparing perfect rice, a guide to exciting varieties, and tips for using leftovers. 30+ photos.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 6th edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811813525
• ISBN-13: 978-0811813525
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #241,773 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book and a rice cooker, and you're set, July 8, 1998

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"On Rice" contains an eclectic collection of recipes with all types of flavors from a variety of cultures. You won't be limited to Asian dishes, although there are a few well-chosen ones here--there are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Moroccan, and Caribbean-inspired flavors in here. The photographs are truly appealing, and the fact that most of the recipes can be prepared in under 30 minutes makes this an everyday cookbook for me. Even my husband (who, unlike me, is not one to browse through cookbooks for the fun of it) was moved to consult this cookbook on his own initiative due to the fact that the ingredient lists are not dauntingly long, in addition to the aforementioned pictures, ease of preparation, and variety of flavors.

Try some of the longer recipes on the weekends, but with this book you can put together a simple but exciting meal after a hard day's work during the week, too. And if you get a rice cooker, it becomes even easier to make these dishes because you can focus on the toppings. I've had this book for only five months and already it's spattered across several pages from kitchen use.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid food but nothing too exciting, January 20, 2000

By	"katnet3" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

I bought this book hoping to find recipes with a lot of flavor and minimal effort when it comes to preparation. The recipes definitely take minimal effort to prepare, which is a blessing, but the flavor part is where the book goes weak. This is all about 'good enough' eating. Nothing too adventurous, nothing too fancy. Recipes range in cooking styles from American to Italian to Asian to Moroccan, but none of them stand out as exceptional. The spicy Szechuan eggplant is quite good, the curried cauliflower just okay because it asks you to use preprepared curry powder instead of the author's own spice blend, the chicken ragu the kind of fare you'd expect to find at a homey, local restaurant--yummy, nothing exceptional. It's an inexpensive book and I don't regret buying it, but it's not peppered with culinary jewels. There are a lot of good ideas, though, so if you want another book in your collection, get it. If you want more exotic fare, try Seductions of Rice. That's a very good book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cookbook for the way we eat!, December 13, 1999

By	"jhtatroe" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

On Rice is one of the few cookbooks I've found that actually have recipes for the way my husband and I eat. There are very few "big hunk of meat" recipes in this book. The meals are light, filling, and easy to make. They range from slight twists on the familiar to the surprisingly simple exotic.