Wild rice tastes wonderful. Brown rice tastes wonderful. They require more preparation time, which probably affects their popularity.

I'm making a pot of soup this afternoon. I use hamburger, but only a half-pound, and it is drained after frying, so it is pretty lean. Potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, tomatoes, kidney beans, cabbage, herbs, basalmic vinegar. I'll make it with some soup stock from the freezer. When you're making soup you can mix some of the stocks--it doesn't work to make chicken soup with beef stock, but you CAN get away with using chicken or turkey stock in beef soup.

There is no recipe, just put in each ingredient until it feels right--what my ex calls my "vibration method" of cooking. :)

SRS