Omnivore loving vegan, gluten-free & beverage recipes
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Spring and Easter Recipes Collection – We have gathered a list of Spring and Easter-themed recipes on Life’s Little Sweets, including cupcakes, candy, snacks, and more!
These Fresh Spring Rolls have vermicelli, cooked shrimp, carrots, cucumber, basil, mint, & cilantro all wrapped up in a rice wrapper. They are delicious when dipped in our easy peanut sauce recipe, plum sauce, or your favorite dipping sauce.
Whether you’re looking for warm soup recipes for the change of seasons, or comfort food to keep you company during the refreshing days of spring, you’ll find plenty of food inspiration here!
Nettle Pesto has foraged, wild, stinging nettles (Urtica dioica), fresh garlic, extra virgin olive oil, Parmesan cheese (or substitute vegan Parmesan cheese, if vegan), Kosher salt, and fresh ground black pepper. It's vibrant, vegetal, and loaded with vitamins and minerals. Try this Nettle Pesto on your favorite pasta, on toast and it's a great sauce to go with chicken, fish, meat, or vegetables.
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Rice Pudding is an ultimate sweet (yet not too sweet) comfort food with nourishing rice, milk (or vegan milk), nutmeg, vanilla, and optional add-ins like fresh seasonal fruit or berries, dried fruit, or berries and cinnamon. Have it customized to your tastes for breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Hi Everyone, I developed this recipe when I was back in college (which at the time of my writing this post was about 14-20 years ago!).
To me, rice pudding is the ultimate comfort food that can be enjoyed throughout the day as a breakfast, snack, or dessert.
It's not overly sweet (unless you want it to be) and can be customized in any way you want with candied citrus, raisins, or other dried fruit or fresh fruit.
I also like adding a little sprig of mint!
For the rice pudding in these photos, I added cinnamon, prunes as my add-ins and when I served it, I topped it with mixed berry jam, frozen Wineberries (wild Japanese raspberries) in my freezer from last season, and a sprig of fresh mint from my garden which is plentiful now.
I also imagine that turmeric or a golden milk powder mix would be good in this too.
In the recipe card at the end of the post, I go into detail about other add-ins you can do.
This recipe is important to me because I would make it with a few simple pantry ingredients and during a time that I needed comfort food, like moving out for the first time and being away at college and then living through 9/11 in the Fall of my Sophmore year.
I am posting it because right now, as I write this, we are living through the Covid-19 pandemic and I am sure there are a lot of people out there that could use a comforting recipe that is also flexible.
When I made this recipe for the site, I used canned evaporated milk and I have a workaround to show you in case you are out of regular milk.
I had to do this because we were 1 day away from our regular weekly grocery shopping day and I can't just run out to the store with my kids so easily during this pandemic (that's hard during normal times and my 2 -year old wouldn't keep a mask on, so it's not even an option for us - not worth the stress!).
To make canned evaporated milk into regular milk, add 1 part evaporated milk to 1 part water and stir to combine.
For example, this recipe calls for 3 cups of milk, uses 1.5 cups evaporated milk and 1.5 cups water, and mixes together.
It will not taste exactly like regular milk (due to the processing of canned milk) you would buy in the store but it's great if you are in a pinch or need to use milk for baking.
This recipe is adapted from "Traditional Rice Pudding," in the Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cook Home Collection.
I love rice pudding because it's so versatile, it's simple, humble and so easy to make yet it can be served in a fancy way for holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day, or any other special day or gathering.
If you try this Rice Pudding recipe and like it, please give the recipe a rating in the recipe card below and let us know in the comments below.
Thank you for reading and following along!
(This post was originally posted on 5/4/2020 and updated and republished on 10/18/2021)
Rice Pudding is an ultimate sweet (yet not too sweet) comfort food with nourishing rice, milk (or vegan milk), nutmeg, vanilla, and optional add-ins like fresh seasonal fruit or berries, dried fruit, or berries, and cinnamon. Have it customized to your tastes for breakfast, snack, or dessert! Non-dairy/lactose-free/vegan option available.
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Please note that the Calculated Nutrition is an estimate at best.
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