Rice Pudding

[Bike Chick]

I love rice pudding! I add raisins to mine also.

DH freaks out when he sees me putting sugar or milk in rice........but then he eats cold rice with ketchup on it!!!

[shootingstar]

I actually have not made rice pudding yet. Nor do I go out of my way to order rice pudding off a menu.

But have had several times a delicately sweetened rice pudding flavoured with saffron in a Iranian restaurant. Lovely stuff.

Another interpretation, was rice pudding with a bit of rosewater. Both definitely are Middle Eastern.

[OakLeaf]

I like it Indian style, with cardamom.

(Yeah, I know, for all I talk about avoiding dairy, it sure seems like my favorite foods are dairy-laden. - but supposedly that's one of the things about food allergies, they're kind of an addiction - )

[KnottedYet]

I like it Indian style, with cardamom.

(Yeah, I know, for all I talk about avoiding dairy, it sure seems like my favorite foods are dairy-laden. - but supposedly that's one of the things about food allergies, they're kind of an addiction - )

You must go through epi-pens by the dozens!

[badger]

here's a question from a person who's never made rice pudding:

the rice you speak of in your ingredients, are they left over rice that's already cooked, or uncooked rice?

I must admit most creamy things make me feel sick, so the one without milk sounds more palatable for me.

[KnottedYet]

here's a question from a person who's never made rice pudding:

the rice you speak of in your ingredients, are they left over rice that's already cooked, or uncooked rice?

I must admit most creamy things make me feel sick, so the one without milk sounds more palatable for me.

In my recipe, the brown rice is uncooked. As the dry rice cooks in the water with the cinnamon and bay leaf, it absorbs some of their flavor along with the water. Mmmmmm....

[Bike Chick]

here's a question from a person who's never made rice pudding:

the rice you speak of in your ingredients, are they left over rice that's already cooked, or uncooked rice?

I must admit most creamy things make me feel sick, so the one without milk sounds more palatable for me.

My rice pudding is made with cooked (usually leftover) rice.

[OakLeaf]

Usually the creamy ones start with uncooked rice, the custardy ones start with cooked rice. Is custard too "creamy" for you? I've had rice puddings that were very dense, with only enough egg custard to fill in the spaces between the rice grains.

[OakLeaf]

You must go through epi-pens by the dozens!

ha, no, fortunately it's the kind of allergy that makes me tired, swollen and congested in every mucous membrane - not the life-threatening anaphylactoid kind. I've had the other kind, but not from any food I eat on purpose (in fact, I haven't been able to identify what it was that set me off, only that it was at the same restaurant three times with food that shouldn't have contained anything I don't know I can safely eat)... So I do carry an Epi-Pen, but never had to use it. They're expiring this month and due to be replaced again...

[Eden]

You must go through epi-pens by the dozens!

indeed allergy is a pretty widely misused term. Most people who think they have food allergies do not..... I'm not saying that they don't truly have some kind of reaction to what they avoid. There are other things that can happen. You can have intolerances like lactose intolerance from not producing the proper enzymes, or gluten intolerance from celiac disease, but these are not allergies in the proper sense of the word.(itching, sneezing, wheezing, hives, anaphalaxsis!) Of course lots of people do say they are allergic to something that they just don't like too. My neighbor was "allergic" to chicken.... until he tried it again, found that it wasn't so bad and started to get over his allergy.

[OakLeaf]

I was diagnosed by an allergist. I know there's controversy among allergists over whether the kind of reaction I have is truly an allergy, or whether only the anaphylactoid type is, but I'll leave that to the scientists.

It's not lactose intolerance (dairy is by no means the only food I'm allergic to, I'm more allergic to goat's milk than cow's, and digestive symptoms are minimal, attributable only to an excess of mucus) and it's not celiac (gluten-containing grains are not the only ones I'm allergic to, and in fact I'm more allergic to rye and corn than I am to wheat).

Basically, I have the same type of reaction to foods as I do to pollens and molds. Fatigue, systemic edema, congestion and excess mucus production in all mucus membranes, and palpitations (SVT). As my allergic load increases, so do my symptoms - so I'm much more strict about my diet during weed season, for instance. No one disputes that inhalant allergies are truly allergies.