Black Rice Dessert

1 cup black rice
1.5 cups water
1 can coconut milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar

Open coconut milk from bottom of can. Pour coconut milk into a glass and scoop out the cream into a small bowl. Put cream into the fridge. Mix sugar salt and water until all dissolve. Put in rice cooker with black rice and coconut milk. Press button. Wait with bated breath until rice is done. Allow to cool a bit. With wet hands form into balls, place on dessert plates. Dab some coconut cream on each ball.

Garnish with mango or mint leaves or something if you feel extra fancy tonight. This might take advance planning, so you should have decided how fancy you were going to feel ahead of time.

This is the recipe I should have followed, not the recipe I did follow.

Joanne’s Baking Powder Biscuits

Yield: 14 biscuits

4 cup	flour
1/2 cup	sugar (I use half that)
1/4 tsp	baking soda
2 heaping tbs	baking powder
pinch	salt
1 1/3 cup	milk
1/3 cup	oil

Pre-heat the oven to 375.
Choose the right cutter for the biscuits.
Mix the dry ingredients.
Add milk and oil.
Stir until just mixed. Make sure it is still lumpy.
Roll out, cut, and bake 20 minutes.

Baked Apple French Toast

My mom made this once before my mission, and I made it from memory with variations several times on my mission. It's become a breakfast of choice for special occasions.
Serves: 6


12 slices of sandwich bread
1.5 cups milk
8 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup sugar or more
2 teaspoons cinnamon or more (to be sprinkled 3 times)

Peel, core, and slice apples. Grease or spray with Pam a 9x13x2" pan. Place 6 (squeeze) bread slices into pan, with the round sides toward the edges of the pan. Mix together 1/4 cup of sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle some on the bread. Place the next 6 pieces of bread & sprinkle again.. Mix together milk, eggs, vanilla, and 1/2 cup of sugar. Pour 1/2 of egg milk mixture over bread. Place apples on bread. Pour remaining milk and egg mixture over the apples. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar. (You may put 2 teaspoon butter dots on top if you want before cooking ... I don't do this). If prepared the night before, cover and put in the fridge. In the morning, uncover it and put it in the preheated oven at 400 degrees for an hour. If not chilled, bake uncovered at 400 degrees for 45 min. Serve with maple syrup.