This week's
Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook
Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, is
Arborio Rice Pudding, White, Black (or Both), can be found on pages 412-413, and was chosen by Isabelle of
Les Gourmandises d'Isa. If you would like to try the recipe before buying the book, click on Isabelle's site above and she will have it posted today.
"Rice Pudding...really, rice pudding? I think I am passing on being any sort of taste tester for rice pudding..." so went the conversation with one-half of the taste testers around here, i.e. the husband. The Kid's views you shall see in the photos.
First let me say, that just because this recipe was NOT a hit around here, does not mean it is not a great recipe...it simply means that this is not a household of rice-loving occupants. We like rice with chicken and fish and then you can pretty much call it a day on the rice. Sweet rice? Not so much. Actually, not at all. It's still sitting in the frig if you want some. I've been trying to give it away, but no one seems to care enough for rice pudding...I have had several requests for the apple pie I made as a sort of sot for the guys' disappointment with the not having a weekly dessert, however.
It made 8 little bowls...very cute and all, but not a happening snack here. I did increase the rice measurement from 1/4 to 1/2 cup as the TWD site mentioned that was probably more correctly the portion than the one in the book...all it did was add more rice, so that wasn't necessarily a good thing. It looked like it was supposed to look...I even made both versions, half vanilla and half chocolate. I figured they would eat anything around here that had chocolate as an ingredient. Not so. They won't eat rice pudding even with chocolate in it.
Not much else to say, so I will leave you with the some photos that pretty much shows the willing taste tester as he progresses through his tasting photo shoot...sorry, Dorie, really this has nothing to do with your wonderful recipe...we just don't happen to like sweetened rice.
You can see with the last photo that the bowl was set aside, all tasting being abandoned. The comment was "Well, Mom, this is the only thing we haven't liked in all these recipes, so you have done pretty good to get this far without any failures. How about you make us one of your apple pies until next week instead?" When a 16 year swimmer sets something aside without eating it, I know it's history around here. I tried the vanilla one...I didn't care for it either...we are just not sweetened rice fans...and when we get to the bread pudding week, I am thinking that's probably not happening either, mushy bread doesn't sound even remotely appealing.
Next week's recipe was chosen by Vibi of Le Casserole Carree, is Thanksgiving Twofer Pie, and can be found on pages 321.
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