Of brown rice biryani

I've never had brown rice biryani before. And i dont think i will survive another spoonful of that vile stuff. It makes it all the more painful when i think of all those hard earned pounds going down the drain, as another culinary experiment ends in a gastronomic catastrophe of monumental proportions.. Which brings me to a greater problem, that of health food tasting bad. Indeed, my motivation to cook the brown rice biryani was not because of a dislike of basmati-rather, the current denounciation of carbs that mr. atkins initiated. Why o why must the healthy version taste bad? why couldnt have chocolate, cheese and cream have been good for you? The brown rice biryani, btw had its fate sealed because of the very funny texture that atleast this variety of brown rice posseses. It has this very wierd, 'oily' flavour-it tastes like you've somehow soaked the rice in oil, all very creepy indeed. I have been saved the ignomity of having to chuck the whole lot in the bin thankfully, by a one kilogram portion of turkish yogurt that i recently procured. I have noticed that if the aforementioned rice is mixed with twice the quantity of yogurt, it alows one to stomatch it with a minimum of suffering. Obviously,this was'nt the outcome i had in mind when i began cooking the B.R.B, but one has to make allowances in these kinds of things. Getting back to good recipes for brown rice- i must admit that the japanese were indeed able to come up with something workable (ie. edible) involving borwn rice. I point ofcourse to the simple, but sublime ginger/soy sauce brown rice served alongwith the maincourse. But then the japanese do go a bit against the flow of the river, atleast as far as the culinary world is concerned. Afterall, they DID comeup with what is arguably the worlds only healthy dessert, the red bean sauce..now i say arguably not because i question the salutory effects of the beans, but rather beacuse, in all honestly-well red beans were never really supposed to be a dessert. They just feel wrong, its not a dessert. And plus, conclusively they fail the unhealthyness test dicussed (at lenght) above. Its like adding sugar to cod-liver oil, its healthy-but is it a dessert? the answer is a resounding, but nonethless disheartining no! [alright, i know i cant spell, teacher after teacher has told me the same-there is a point in your life where you just learn to live with your failings. I oft wonder, and shudder, at what would have become of me had i not been born in the age of the automated secretary] If, on the other had you are one of those lucky few who remains aloof to watching your waistline, then you should be happy, beacuse - chances are: a) you will have an above average income. Surprisingly, in the developed world, people from lower socio-economic classes are actually FATTER that those who are higher up the ladder b) you can enjoy this bad boy: http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001190.asp go on, give it a shot-and enjoy this delectable cheese and choclate orgy. thats it for now.