It has certainly been a while since I have blogged. I promise I will do more in the future. Within the past month I had tried a brand new recipe and made a favorite of mine that I haven’t had in a while.
My new recipe was in honor of Hanukkah. Soufganiyot is considered to be a treat in Israel and is served/eaten as a commemeration of the miracle associated with the Temple. Traditionally it is 2 pieces of dough surrounding jelly. Typically this is fried, so it is supposed to taste like a jelly doughnut. This version from Cooking Light calls for it to be baked instead of fried to save on calories and fat.(click on picture for recipe) This was fun to make-the first time I have gotten to make a dough from scratch and knead it and bake it and squeeze strawberry jelly into it. The visual, unfortunately, was much better than the actual taste. They had a dense consistency and a fairly bland taste. To say I was disappointed is a bit of an understatement..but it just gives me the motivation to try and find another recipe.
I love rice..plain rice as a side dish, rice with stirfry, tomato and rice soup and even rice pudingJust last week I had a craving for an old favorite…rice pudding. I know that this is an acquired taste. When I was in high school/college, my mom used to buy rice pudding from Costco. It came in this big trays with cinnamon packets to sprinkle over. My brother and I loved this stuff. It was a great snack-easy on calories and low in fat, plus a light and sweet taste. I was so ecstatic when, last year, I found a recipe for rice pudding in my Cooking Light magazine. It was my first time working with arborio rice and it was something different. The recipe calls for lime zest, which I had found really overwhelms the taste. I had made a few more batches of it over the next few weeks adjusting the amount of lime zest, but I found that the best option was to just omit it and leave the cinnamon sticks in the mixture throughout the entire cooking process. The recipe adds raisins to it and as a snack, sometimes I find I will even add some berries to it. When I made it last week, I was brought right back to high school..what a great taste!
