{"id":1464,"date":"2011-12-12T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2011-12-12T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:43:59","slug":"prized-black-rice-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/prized\/prized-black-rice-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Prized<\/em> Black Rice Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers tell me that Birthmarked<\/em> makes them hungry.\u00a0 They read about dark, crusty bread right out of the oven and their tastebuds swoon.\u00a0 Unlike Harris\u2019s Chocolat<\/em>, that richly seductive book that makes me crave sweetness, (not to mention the even more troublesome movie version with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche, (whose name, once you\u2019ve become dessert-minded, invokes \u201cganache\u201d)), my books tend towards the hardy and wholesome food groups: breads, soups, blueberries, and an orange.\u00a0 An exception is the mycoprotein, provided as sustenance to people living outside the wall. \u00a0It exists now in real life as Quorn<\/a>, but I’ve never tried it. \u00a0In Prized<\/em>, one of my favorite chapters\u00a0is called \u201cCinnamon,” for a scene where the absence of cinnamon in Sylum has caused a longing for it.<\/p>\n

In real life, I\u2019m an adequate cook.\u00a0 I\u2019m good at boiling food. \u00a0This means food poisoning is rare, but then, so is flavor. \u00a0Beyond the basics, though,\u00a0I do have a couple of dishes I like to make, and one of them is a wild rice soup recipe I\u2019ve adapted over the years to make my own.\u00a0 It\u2019s exactly the soup I imagine in Prized<\/em>, only I use Minnesota wild rice for the fictional black rice.\u00a0 It goes well, you won\u2019t be surprised to hear, with fresh bread.<\/p>\n

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Prized<\/em> Black Rice Soup<\/p>\n

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Prized Black Rice Soup<\/p><\/div>\n

1 cup black rice<\/p>\n

2 Tbsp butter<\/p>\n

\u00bd cup minced sweet onion<\/p>\n

1 stalk sliced celery<\/p>\n

2 Tbsp flour<\/p>\n

4 cups chicken broth<\/p>\n

2 shredded carrots<\/p>\n

1 cup cooked chicken<\/p>\n

1\/3 cup slivered almonds<\/p>\n

2 Tbsp sherry<\/p>\n

1 cup cream<\/p>\n

\u00bd tsp black pepper<\/p>\n

Rinse the rice.\u00a0 Boil it gently for an hour.\u00a0 In a separate pan, melt butter and saut\u00e9 onions and celery.\u00a0 Add flour and cook 4 minutes.\u00a0 Add broth gradually, stirring.\u00a0 Add carrots, chicken, almonds, rice, sherry, cream, and pepper.\u00a0 Simmer until tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers tell me that Birthmarked makes them hungry.\u00a0 They read about dark, crusty bread right out of the oven and their tastebuds swoon.\u00a0 Unlike Harris\u2019s Chocolat, that richly seductive book that makes me crave sweetness, (not to mention the even more troublesome movie version with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche, (whose name, once you\u2019ve become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[63,17],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prized","tag-ha","tag-prized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}