rice

Rice Pudding with Meringue

This favorite is based on a recipe from Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes.

  • 1 c cooked rice
  • 1 pt hot milk
  • 2 egg yolks beaten
  • salt
  • 2T butter
  • 1 lime’s zest
  • a handful of dried or fresh lemon verbena leaves (optional)
  • 1/2 c maple syrup

Method:
Mix the milk, yolks, salt, butter, zest and sugar together and pour over rice. Bake for ½ hour in a water bath in a 350 degree oven.

Tenderly Tossed Burmese Salads

Tenderly Tossed Burmese Salads

One of my many favorite places to eat in Yangon is at an excellent Burmese fresh salad bar on the street right next to Sule Pagoda. It opens in the evenings as the parking spaces empty, spilling off the sidewalk and across the street. This place is famous in Myanmar for the best hand-tossed rice ...

Fermented Rice Milk

Fermented Rice Milk

This is a really tasty way to make rice milk. This recipe is from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. One of my many favorites from her cookbook. Makes 2 quarts 1/2 c brown rice 8c filtered water Cook rice in water for several hours until it is very mushy. Pass it through a mil ...