I am going to gain 20 pounds at this rate
So last night, I spent the night shuddering under the covers, waking up once an hour between 2 am and 6 am, sneezing and coughing, and generally feeling miserable. By 4, I decided there was no way in hell I was going into work that day, and I reset my alarm for 8, at which point I called in and then spent the rest of the day in bed, surfing the internet, reading Merlin fanfiction, and eating toast.
By tonight I was feeling mostly better, and I had a crazy craving for rice pudding, of all things. Luckily, Smitten Kitchen had posted a recipe for it earlier this month.
I pretty much made it to her specifications…except I only had three cups of milk left (and now have none, so a grocery trip is in the near future) so my pudding was a little thicker and stickier. I also added about a quarter teaspoon more almond extract because, in my opinion, there is no such thing as too much almond flavor in a dessert. It was awesome. It could have only been more awesome if I’d still had some dried cherries left to mix in, but I finished those off for lunch last weekend.
A possible future rice pudding alteration is with coconut milk – I’m pretty sure that would be terrific, but am still working out what other flavors to add to make it great.