How do you cook food?

Question

How do you boil potatoes? how long

what about rice?
is it better to add salad and dressing?

Answer 1

Boil potatoes for about 20-40 minutes depending on size. If a fork can easily cut into them with the prong-portion, you've boiled them long enough.

Rice varies by stove... I like instant rice, but regular rice takes 20-30 minutes, basmati about 35, jasmine about 25 and brown about 40. Wild rice, when I go make it, I keep on a soft rolling boil for about 20-25 minutes.

I usually add dressing and let the salad sit at room temperature to let the flavors soak in.

I cook with a stove, a steamer, a crock pot, a broiler and a small indoor grill.

Answer 2

I cut my potatoes into relatively the same size, put them in a pot of cold water and bring them to a boil, let them boil for about twenty minutes. Rice i use "sticky" rice that takes about twenty minutes after the water has come to a boil but most people buy minute rice which you boil the water shut the heat off add the rice and then let it sit for five minutes. And regarding the salad and dressing i don't understand what you mean by that but i love and try to incorporate it whenever i see fit such as with grilled meats.

Answer 3

Cover peeled and quartered potatoes with water and cook over med. heat until fork tender. Add salt and pepper and creamery butter.
Or you can pour off cooking water and brown potatoes in hot oil in a heavy skillet. Do not cover the skillet with a lid when browning potatoes. Cover boiling potatoes with a lid when cooking.
Start water boiling before adding rice also rinse rice under cold running water to remove some of the starch before adding to boiling water. turn heat to low because rice will boil over on high heat. cook until rice is tender. Turn off the heat. Cover and let rice absorb all the water in the pot. Fluff with a fork before serving.
Serve your salad and dressing separate.....then pour the amount needed over your salad.

Hope this helps you.

Answer 4

Put potatoes in a pot, add enough water to cover, add some salt, boil until tender. It will vary by the taters and how you cut them.

Make instant rice, much easier.

Add dressing if you like it, add salad if you like it.


P.S. to Libby only: Tsk, tsk, Libby, is there any reason to be so rude. (throwing her words right back at her). The poor guy is just looking for some information.

Answer 5

It depends on what you're doing with the potatoes and what kind you're using. If you chop them up, they boil faster... of course. Just poke them with a fork. If they feel soft, take a piece out and taste it. If you boil them too long, they'll be gummy and gross. They should be soft, but still starchy.
if you're serving them later or putting them in potatoe salad or something, drain them and put them in ice water to stop them from cooking.

Rice is 1 part rice and 2 parts water. We throw everything together with some butter and salt and just put the stove on medium until it's done.

I like my dressing mixed in the salad, especially if I make the dressing especially for the dinner. Use less than you think you need to and put more out for people who want more. An easy dressing is a reduced balsamic! put 1/2 cup on the stove on a medium low heat, add ~1 tablespoon sugar. when the balsamic starts to bubble, reduce heat to low and stir. let sit, stirring occasionally until just thickening. Remove from stove and use when ready. This stuff is stinky! But it's so yummy! Drizzle olive oil on the plate you'll be serving the salad on, then drizzle the thick balsamic on top, it beads beautifully and tastes great! put salad on top of oil and balsamic, top with fresh sliced strawberries and segmented madrin oranges, drizzle more olive oil and balsamic and top with pepper and salt! It's not too sweet and it's really really yummy :)

Answer 6

On boiling the potatoes, it depends on the potatoes and how they are in the pot. If they are whole with the skins on, it takes longer than if they are peeled and cut into chunks. And, if it's a russet potato with the skin on, it takes longer than a baby red potato. So, put your potatoes in a pot in whatever way you want them (peeled or not, cut or not) and bring the water to the boil. Turn the heat down a little so it's just barely bubbling and cook it until you can stick a fork in it and the fork doesn't get stuck in a piece (meaning it comes out easily). Diced potatoes (like for corned beef hash) cooks quicker than chunks. I'd start with 10 minutes on the boil and check it frequently thereafter if they aren't whole. With whole, I'd check it at 10 minutes and then poke it every 5 minutes or so until the fork comes out easily.

For rice, the easiest way to cook it is with a rice cooker. If you don't have one of those, then put the rice in a pot. Rinse it over and over until the water is clear (no milky stuff in the water - that's starch). Once the water is clear, add water to the pot until it measures the first knuckle joint on your pointer finger when you just barely put your finger on the top of the rice. Bring to a boil, stir - uncovered, until all the moisture as cooked out - be careful and don't burn it. Remove from the burner and cover it for 10 minutes to steam. If you have a steamer, then put the rice in the steamer and steam it for 20 minutes to finish it off. You can use it in salads, serve it with sauce over it, make rice pudding out of it, if you refrigerate it until it's completely cold - you can make stir-fried rice out of it. So many uses. It can be used in soups. I don't like to put raw rice in my soups because the starch (that white stuff in the water) will thicken my soup when i don't want that done. So I add cooked rice to my soups.

Hope that helps. You can even add meats and fruit to rice with a little sauce and serve on the side with a wonderful cut of some kind of meat.

Answer 7

When I boil potatoes , I cut them into quarter pieces and boil in lightly salted water until the fork goes in them easily.
For rice I add the rice to pot then add water and rinse rice and then add fresh water just to cover rice , add pinch of salt and let simmer until the water is gone and rice is tender.

Answer 8

Buy a betty crocker cook book.

Answer 9

Did you ever graduate from romper room??

Answer 10

just toss them in the toilet and flush until the thing overflows.