My mum would often make rice pudding when I was a kid. Though I loved the pudding, I would scrape off the skin with my spoon and plop it on mum’s plate, who made an ostentatious show of eating it while I curled up my nose in distaste.

Lenny was making risotto a while back and couldn’t find arborio rice, so bought some “Italian pudding rice” instead at a corner store. I insisted, though, that it wouldn’t work, and went out an ultimately successful mission to find the right kind for risotto. That left us with this packet of pudding rice, which Lenny has finally put to use.

In our modest cookery library she found a recipe for “nursery rice pudding” and went to work, also grilling some pineapple for a topping.

The pudding turned out well enough, but the pineapple was less successful. How do you get pineapple to brown and sort of caramelise? We’d like to hear your ideas.

As far as the pudding goes, Lenny reckons she wasn’t that happy with the overall result. I’ll have to ask mum for her recipe.

– Waz

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