tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575546.post8933388913583985661..comments2024-03-17T09:07:56.678+01:00Comments on The Gaming Philosopher: [IF Competition] zork, buried chaosVictor Gijsbershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12770054233775973753noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575546.post-52803800715885587512009-10-18T17:58:11.325+02:002009-10-18T17:58:11.325+02:00Okay, that recipe sounds sort of amazing. Yum.
...Okay, that recipe sounds sort of amazing. Yum. <br />There's a lot of different rices, and I suspect it doesn't matter too much what one uses, as long as it's a longer-grain (not sticky or glutinous). I'm going to try it with basmati, since I'm out of brown.Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575546.post-26557265829066487932009-10-18T06:44:39.464+02:002009-10-18T06:44:39.464+02:00"Cooking water" is an acceptable term fo..."Cooking water" is an acceptable term for that stuff, although a more typical term would be "cooking liquid." It's purely idiomatic, but "cooking water" usually means the water before you add the food (as in, "salt the cooking water before adding the pasta") and "cooking liquid" usually means the water or liquid afterward (as in "reserveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335564574367074565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575546.post-33883134361623655172009-10-17T20:44:09.561+02:002009-10-17T20:44:09.561+02:00Of course I should have consulted my dictionary im...Of course I should have consulted my dictionary immediately. According to it, "zilvervliesrijst" is "unpolished rice". But brown rice, according to Wikipedia, is unmilled rice, and the entry for "white rice" seems to suggest that polishing is a further step. If this is correct, then "zilvervliesrijst" lies somewhere between brown and white rice. But my Victor Gijsbershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12770054233775973753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575546.post-46934933211474458692009-10-17T16:59:00.427+02:002009-10-17T16:59:00.427+02:00I'm in a very poor position to evaluate whethe...I'm in a very poor position to evaluate whether brown rice is the same thing that you call zilvervliesrijst, because I don't know what zilvervliesrijst is. Such are the sorrows of the language barrier, even when the person on one side of the barrier is unusually competent with the other language. (The unusually competent one is you.) It's the melancholy Calvin Trillin felt when he matt whttp://saucersofmud.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com