it's practically health food, with two kinds of whole grain and all

[mrissa]

I just posted a recipe for wild rice pudding with sour cherries, and I thought some of you might want to know. I'm not making it this week, I don't think, but it's awfully good stuff.

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[txanne.livejournal.com]

This is me, drooling all over my keyboard.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

mmmm.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Oo, that looks yummy, except ... every time I buy wine for cooking with, it gets used once and then moulders in the back of the fridge until it's undrinkable and I have to throw it out. Do you have any thoughts on substitutions that would work?

[brooksmoses]

FWIW, I usually get the little single-serving bottles that come in a four-pack. That way when it goes bad in the back of the fridge, I'm only throwing out a cup or so.

My offhand guess is that, for something like this, a port would probably work reasonably well, and that's one of the sorts of alcohol that lasts for quite a while indeed. But Mrissa may have a better idea.

I'm wondering, meanwhile, where to get dried sour cherries. I don't think I've ever seen such a thing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Most hippie groceries I've been to have them--Whole Paycheck, for example, ought to. I haven't really had to think about it, because there's Byerly's.

Be careful, if you get the hippie kind, that you don't get the hippie kind with the pits still in, because those are an abomination and good to NO ONE.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have two suggestions:

1. Buy a white wine for soaking cherries in. Make a couple batches of Spanish rice (http://www.marissalingen.com/spanrice.html) on the same day or soon thereafter. Throw out a mere few ounces of wine.

2. Use apple juice on the cherries instead.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Nom. I will make that sometime. Probably not this week.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lot of work by my pathetic standards, but as I adore both cherries and wild rice*, I may have to try making it.


*This being one of the signs by which my Scandosotan ancestry can be detected.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes. The wild rice is a part of us. We even eat wild rice bratwursts here.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That sounds fabulous, and quite straightforward...

*googles dried sour cherries, and is rewarded*

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Yum. And cherries are good for you too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

See? Health food!

[sraun]

I may have to make this one! And I even have a regular dinner group I can use as guinea pigs that is willing to try stuff like this.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Bring a book. It's a very good one for stirring with one hand and reading a paperback with the other.

[allochthon.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, may I use your "Annex us!" icon?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Please ask seagrit, since she's the one who made it.