What I eat, apparently

Awhile back, I got some black glutinous rice on a whim. Apparently it’s intended use is mostly things like Thai desserts. However, I found it a quite exciting alternative to regular rice when I needed a starchy accompaniment to assorted meats and/or fakemeats, plus vegetables.

So here’s something fun to do: Make whatever rice you ordinarily make and add in a small amount of black glutinous rice. It makes it all purple! I used brown rice below, but white would be even better for the purple, I bet! It was a very small amount of black glutinous rice that I used as well, something like 1/6 of a cup or so to 1 cup of the other rice. Super festive!

To accompany this, I baked some tilapia with a jar of fancy fruit dumped on top. It’s like I took the time to carve up a variety of fruit and mix it in with other ingredients to make a lush chunky glaze. Except I didn’t, since it came in an overpriced jar instead, yay! Thanks to my hookups, it was free at least. I highly approve of it’s flavor. Fruit + fish is generally better then the sum of it’s parts.

I’ve recently come to the realization that yogurt + fruit + granola is a rather gratifying sort of breakfast. But you know what makes it even better? Adding M&Ms. It’s like a party in your mouth!

The strategy is to mix it up just enough. You want the colors to swirl around and look all festive, but too much mixing leads to brown yogurt goo with brown now-naked M&Ms floating around in said brown goo. Which, albeit, still tastes rather good, but it simply isn’t as funfetti-tastic.