Easy ways to make rice or spaghetti taste better

If he’s anything like me, he probably goes through Velveeta so fast, it doesn’t stay in his refrigerator for long.

Pasta+Butter+lots of Parmesan*

*By Parmesan, I mean that cheap nasty stuff that come in the green shaker bottle.
Wolf brand chili w/beans over pasta., (Topped with shredded cheddar.)

Noddles and Maggi sauce is good too. (Kind of like soy sauce but much better IMHO)

With lots of pepper sauce and a couple of beers. But it has to be Wolf - Dennison’s won’t do.

Heaps of black pepper for spaghetti has laready been recommended, it is excellent. But an important point: FRESH GROUND black pepper. Makes a huge difference.

I second this.

When I find myself eating bland food (potatoes, white rice, etc.), I start throwing spicy powders or sauces on it.

ketchup is the best way to make rice and pasta taste better.

i eat ketchup with rice and pasta everyday. it is cheap and tasty.

1lb of ketchup only costs 1 dollar at the 99 cent store, and it lasts a week of servings on rice and pasta.

Please people, enough with the ready grated parmesan - I though we left that behind in the 70s.

Fresh parmesan (in a block) might be expensive, but a little goes a long long way and it lasts forever in the fridge.

Cook your rice in lemonade instead of water. No, not lemon juice (I did this once and I think I had to throw out the pot with the inedibly glutinous rice still in it. Spoon, too). Experiment with the water/lemon juice ratio. I think 2 parts water to 1 part lemon juice might be a good place to start. And why not do it with orange juice, as well?

Do you put sugar in it?

The Scottish part of my ancestry tells me that you simply add chips (I believe you chaps call them fries) to anything.

Spaghetti and fries; rice and fries; fries and fries. :cool:

Perhaps for the true gourmet, some tomato ketchup on the side… :eek:

My welsh girlfriend tells me that in Wales, you call this ‘half and half’, so order curry half and half* and you get chips and rice, spaghetti bolognese half and half, you get the picture.

(*Which reminds me of being in a pub in Wales, taking orders from the in-laws, my FIL asked for ‘curry half and half’, ‘What sort of curry’ I say, expecting ‘chicken korma’, ‘prawn jalfrezi’ or something. He replies ‘hot’. I go to the bar and ask ‘what curries do you have?’ ‘Mild, medium and hot’ is the answer.)

make sure that one of the dishes you’re eating the rice with has lotsa gravy.

Holy crap, how much ketchup are you using on a serving of rice, to go through that much of the stuff in a week?