
I'm enjoy the posts over at Choas in the Kitchen. Right now Katie is doing a series called Blogging the Recession that I highly recommend.
In the past few months I've noticed how much Chinese Take-out I order.
And, you know what comes with that.
Rice.
More rice than even I can eat.
(And,that's saying a lot.)
So, I decided to just keep the rice accumulating in the fridge - very cold fridge with a thermometer-thankyouverymuch. No, nothing grew on it.
Last night I dumped said stale hard rice in a pot, stirred up a milky custard mixture, poured it over the rice, and stirred on very low heat. The heat was low enough to prevent the eggs from curdling or cream from forming a scab. I stirred it a good amount - I wanted to thicken the pudding with whatever starch was still left on the rice.
It worked. It thickened nicely. And, I tossed in some dried raisins and figs to soak up just a bit more of the liquid. Oh, and cinnamon. (Might have used a bit too much of that. Tastes great, but it's a bit muddy looking.)
So, I'm now that happy owner of about 8-10 servings of homemade rice pudding. And, it cost me a couple of cups of milk,cream and a few eggs. Yum. Plus - I feel all...resourceful.
AND...Tomorrow I'm having rice pudding for breakfast.
Bill Cosby would understand. ;)

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