Adventures in rice pudding.

This is my improvised "I should have either gotten rice pudding at the restaurant today, or else I should have gone to the grocery store and at least gotten cinnamon and real milk" rice pudding recipe, since I couldn't find a recipe that used the sad assortment of ingredients I had at my disposal. Against all odds, it's amazing.

6 c water

1 tsp nutmeg
1 c brown basmati rice
3 c skim milk
2/3 c sugar
1/2 tsp salt

Boil water and nutmeg.
Stir in rice. Cook on low heat until rice is soft and water has evaporated.
Add skim milk, sugar, and salt. Cook for another 15 minutes or until mixture thickens.

::peers around corner::

So, I sort of deserted my good intentions to return to blogging full-force, because of the previously described NaNoWriMo adventure. But. I did it! 50,000 words in 30 days. The novel isn't finished yet, but it's definitely getting there.

In other news: my mother & I cut apart a pomegranate the other day. Just to see. It was...weird. And after the cutting took place, we had a "now what?" sort of movement because, it turns out, dealing with a pomegranate is not exactly intuitive. In the end we decided to freeze the seeds and make ice cream with them later but I'm open to suggestions. Go!