Rice Pudding

I'm a lazy person on the weekends at the best of times - and the end of January in Winnipeg is generally not well known to be the best of times. In my ideal world, winter weekends are for reading and watching movies and cooking and being slovenly and not leaving the house.

Today I managed to fulfil my goal quite nicely - I didn't get out of my pajamas all day and I still managed to have a nap. And I made the perfect food to eat on a day that you're not going to get out of your pajamas - rice pudding.

Just to make it fun, I used arborio rice for extra creaminess and threw a few cardamom pods into the mix. If I had raisins, I probably would have thrown them in as well, but I didn't so I added some dried cranberries and toasted almonds to the finished dish. And delightful it was, eating in my pajamas in my sunny dining room, gazing at the cold snow outside.