It's happened to the best of us. You look in your pantry for a side dish for dinner to discover that you have eight boxes of various grains and rices, each with an inch or less of product in the bottom. I have no idea why it is that recipes and package sizes never seem to fully match up. It's like the age-old conundrum of packages of ten hot dogs, and packages of only eight buns. For years, at any given moment, my pantry might have had a strange mix of anywhere up to a dozen various little stashes of rice floating around in small increments. Too much in the bags to throw away, too little to even make a satisfying meal for one. Read more... |