I’ve just had a tidy out of my kitchen cupboards!
I’m not sure what came over me - I went in to the kitchen to make a cuppa, noticed how messy the cutlery drawer was and it just spiralled out of control from there…. I found all sorts of weird and wonderful things, including cider vinegar that I have no recollection of buying, vanilla sugar that I forgot I had and lots of herbs and spices that I have no clue what to do with.
One thing I did find that I was quite pleased with was a small amount of pudding rice so I thought that I would cook the kids some homemade rice pudding for after their tea tonight as it’s perfect for these miserable wintery nights.
Ingredients
100g Pudding Rice
800ml Milk
1 – 2 Capfuls Vanilla Extract
1 -2 tbsp Sugar
Butter for greasing
Method
Grease a large oven proof dish/bowl with the butter and pour in the pudding rice. Add the milk, sugar and vanilla and give it a quick stir together.
Bake in the oven for about 2 hours at 160 c.
I always check on it a few times while it’s cooking and every time I do, I give it a quick stir and remove the skin from the top as the kids won’t touch it if it’s got a skin on it but I know a lot of recipes say to leave the skin as it’s the best bit. I can’t see it myself – it just looks disgusting.
It’s gorgeous hot and I would guess it’s just as nice cold but we always serve it straight from the oven with a big dollop of raspberry jam and it’s never around long enough to go cold.
The timing of my kitchen cupbaord cleaning fever is ideal, if I hadn’tcleaned out the cupboards I wouldn’t have found the rice and if I hadn’t found the rice, I would never have been able to share with you my favourite one-pot recipe 
Which just happens to be the subject for this week’s Friday club…..
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Here are the other entries in the Friday Club One-Pot Cooking Carnival:
Helen at Cheeky Wipes gives us her Warm Lentil & Feta Salad Recipe.
Clare at Seasider in the City gives us her Sausage Casserole.
Cass at The Diary of a Frugal Family gives us the perfect pudding for winter, her Rice Pudding.
Nova at Cherished By Me posts her Herby One Pot Chicken.
Jax at Making it Up posts her Prime Number Vegetable Stew.
Cara at Freckles Family posts her Pot-luck Goulash.
Ella at Notes From Home posts her Rice Pudding
I've just been having a tidy up of our cupboards. My wife had a bit of a "Flavoured tea" fad a few years ago and i thought they had been there a long time. When checking the "use by date" I was amazed that they are dated July 2006. They still taste Ok (I was curious). Makes me wonder what these dates are actually for.
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Hi! I love rice pudding! I haven't had it in a long time though.
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we love rice pudding too (plus is a good excuse to have the oven on for a few hours to warm the kitchen up!)
I know what you mean, I love sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop and a cuppa while it's cooking x
I see we have great similar taste!!
My eldest and I love the skin and we eat the whole lot between us! The rest of them look on in horror!
Thanks for taking part in the carnival x
Out of all the recipes we could choose from, we choose the same one
Must be good then x
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*cook not cooked! Sorry, obviously I haven't enough coffee yet!
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Oh wow, rice pudding! My Gran used to cooked this for me when I was little and I loved it! Still do really. I'm not sure why I haven't made this in so long, think this will be on the menu this weekend! Thanks for the reminder
I know what you mean – I used to have it when I was little at my nans too but forgot all about it until recently