Generally, Rice-A-Roni will call for butter or margarine right on the box. You'll toast the rice and pasta mixture in that butter before adding the seasonings and simmering it for a while.

I learned how to cook from the back of a box of Pasta Roni, and I’m damn proud of that. By Michelle Davis . March 8, 2017. Illustration by May van Millingen.

With ready-to-cook pasta and dressing mix right in the box, Pasta Roni Italian Herb Easy Salads couldn't be simpler to make. Milk and olive oil is needed for the dressing and the package suggests ...

Homemade Rice a Roni 1 cup white or brown long-grain rice ½ cup broken vermicelli pasta 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil ½ cup onion, finely chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 3 cups ...

"And then she would pull out my Pasta Roni box and prepare this processed pasta dish because I claimed not to like rice." Enlarge this image. Fausta Reyes Ramil, Melanie's grandmother, at age 22.

When Rice-A-Roni hit the market in the 1950s, people were desperate to make cooking easier and faster. Rice-A-Roni was a product that was preseasoned and didn’t require boiling water, which made ...