Do You Experiment with Recipes?

Tweet

I bought a new rice cooker. I use it almost every day to make oatmeal. I like the fact that the oatmeal is done in an hour. In the evening yesterday, we were looking for something sweet. I decided to make rice pudding. When I make my usual rice pudding it takes 2.5 hours in the oven, that wasn't going to work and I didn't feel like standing there for 30 minutes stirring my stovetop version. I tried making it in the rice cooker. As with most things I experiment with in the recipe area, this one was edible and actually quite enjoyable but far from perfect. I am going to need to tweak my recipe. I cooked it in milk but it was too dry and the rice was not quite cooked enough. I think next time I may add an egg and definitely change the proportion of rice to liquid. It was also not quite sweet enough. We fixed that by adding a little maple syrup and poured cream on to add liquid. I used vanilla and nutmeg as the spices and that was a little light on nutmeg for my taste. I also added golden raisins. It was good enough that we both ate our bowl of rice pudding but far from what I hope the final version will be like. I just need to keep notes, which I never do, of what exactly I am adding and how much, I rarely measure. Do you use a similar method of trial and error? Th picture is not my rice pudding I was too busy eating to take a picture, lol.