Rice pudding

This post is something I'd saved in my drafts and promptly forgotten about. There was nothing wrong with it, but I guess I thought I'd save it for a rainy day, when I hadn't had the chance to cook something for the blog. I'm posting it now though, because why wait for that rainy day? You deserve rice pudding!

Many moons ago, Jana gave me a book called Scottish Cookery. I loved the sentiment, but my experience of Scottish food was limited to shortbread and haggis. Shortbread is great, if a little bland, but haggis?? Haggis is the stuff of my food nightmares (if I had nightmares about food) and I'm usually pretty flexible about the creative use of animal parts in food. In any case, I was flipping through Scottish Cookery recently and, to my surprise, I found a lot that I want to try out. First up on the list: rice pudding.

Chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

These cookies are crowdpleasers. You'll be hard pressed to find a person who recoils at the thought of  a chewy-on-the-inside, crispy-on-the-outside, chocolate chunk oatmeal cookie. Pair it with a glass of ice cold milk, and you've got yourself a new best friend, if you happen to be in the market.