Here's the scary stuff from a Food Standards Agency webpage:

I've heard that reheating rice can cause food poisoning. Is this true?

It's true that you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem – it's the way the rice has been stored before reheating.

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will germinate into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.

So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.

It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.

Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's piping hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once.

Must cool mine off more quickly but it's usually a large panful. Perhaps I should just cook less at a time!

PS I do like this Modify facility!

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No, Appetite didn`t grab me in the same way as the `Real` books either. I was nearly seduced by The Kitchen Dairies until I realised that it consisted mainly of his `Observer` recipes and I have a mountain of those clippings!  Maybe he`s just spreading himself a bit too thinly now. He does  seem to have his fingers in rather a lot of pies (unavoidable pun). Still, he did once e mail  me copies of two recipes for pate that I had lost, so he gets gold stars for that.   

`10-1 I have a nap after washing up and don't get anything done.`

Far more sensible, hh. Even Him Upstairs had one day off!

I lost patience with FW when he started banging on about `foraging` for ingredients during the lean Feb/March months. Not all of us live in the countryside and, even though my neighbour has a very impressive nettle forest, there`s only so much nettle soup that a gel can eat, for chrissakes!

I`m going through a fish phase at the moment, but plain and simple, so grilled trout with purple sprouting for me ce soir.

May your stocks pots never go dry

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And, in light of a lot of lentil talk recently, a question.
I do a very good (if I say so myself) boiled ham, in cider, with vegetables added, plus bayleaf, cloves, peppercorns, juniper berries etc., and then lentils added towards the end of a long cooking time. (You have to pop them in late, because they react badly with salt over any longer length of time.) Delicious. But I'm always a bit dis-satisfied, and I'm not sure why. Anyone have any suggestions for a really good boiled ham recipe?

The green porky one. 

Grilled fillets of witch sole, with asparagus and greens, followed by ice cream and ginger nuts.
 

better make that eight, the amount that actually comes back off the spoon is teeny!!!!

i never know whether flapjacks and things are healthy or not. i thought they were but when you eat them all thie grease comes off on fingers, so i'm not sure... enlightenment?

chocolate-covered ones are just a travesty. takes the whole point away.

I knew I am not going to play too well because the soup was salty thing from a can and I had no tea.
I really have to be more relaxed and happy to play better.
I did not play too badly because at least I said to him that I have to have something.

I find that man often don't understand when people (women) get hungry. I think men can be hungry longer.
If I had a nice sweet with my tea I would play much better. The student was nervous and we were slightly late, and the place was full. In this way things were against us.
It is surprising that we play this well and I did not get him down.
I don't know why a few hours before an important concert (exam) are so important for me. They make the difference between playing well (as good as one can) and not so good.
Also the day before is important. There were a few things the day before that made me nervous.
That is life.
I did not play badly, but I made a few fluff notes. The student play well at first, but at the end the last passage in Messager he really did not get. I think he will not pass. He did not play the last few pieces too well. (there were three solo pieces for clarinet by Stravinsky).
The student's teacher did not think he will pass. But we have to wait and see.
At least it was not a disaster.

Andy D,
I never tried couscous. I don't even know what to do with it. I think you have to boil it like rice and wait until water evaporates.
What recepy did you do for yourself?