Yucatan Rice

Anonymous

I love Mexican rice and thought I'd try this. Ick. Way too salty, but that's what comes from eating packaged rice. I also have some issues about how it was presented on the show. First off, what makes this "Yucatan"? The main flavors are saffron and pimento, which are both Spanish, but not Mexican. And I shouldn't say that saffron is a flavor because I used Mahatma rice, just like Sandra suggests. When I looked at the ingredient list, I saw that saffron was #11 out of 12 ingredients. It's true that you don't need a lot of saffron (and that saffron is expensive, but as this rice has almost no saffron--and certainly no saffron taste--why bother? Sandra also says that using frozen chopped onions is a cost-saving move, but those run a whole lot more than buying a whole onion. At my local store, one onion costs me about $.69 and weighs about half a pound, but a bag of chopped onions, which weighs 12 oz, costs about $2.<br />