Mango Sticky Rice

I took pictures of the dessert I made tonight. Things you can't see -- good Japanese sticky rice, a can of Thai coconut milk, real palm sugar. The rice was soaked with coconut milk and then coconut cream was poured on top before the sliced Ataulfo mango half was placed on top. The toasted sesame seeds. It's Alessi flatware on a hand-made aluminum table on my neighbors' deck.

Their son has a plasma cutting metal shop in Brooklyn.

You think this would go with 2005 Riussec? I think maybe.

[Jenise]

BREAKFAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Says she who hasn't eaten yet today. But honestly, what a gorgeous meal, and mangos with sticky rice was something I ate almost every day for breakfast in Thailand. I'm so wedded to the idea I never thought of serving it for dessert--but oh yes! It would work!

I want that table.

Jenise, I talked about mango dishes with the Malaysian mother of one of my students, named "Janise" by the way -- she said her "nyona" in Malaysia would make her "pulut inti" for breakfast -- sticky rice with palm sugared coconut on top. Pulut sri muka is another breakfast variation, a similar dish with pandan leaves mixed with the coconut. She said that in general what people had for breakfast was sticky rice plus "something" on top, mango or coconut or what have you. And sometimes black rice is used.

Janise gave me a recipe for a mango pudding, a great use if you bought too many of those delicious yellow Ataulfo mangoes and they are starting to go soft. I made it -- surprisingly light and refreshing -- no heavy cream or sweetened condensed milk, just coconut milk and palm sugar and gelatin or agar mixed with the pureed mango flesh. Here is what it looks like.

[Jenise]

Jenise, I talked about mango dishes with the Malaysian mother of one of my students, named "Janise" by the way -- she said her "nyona" in Malaysia would make her "pulut inti" for breakfast -- sticky rice with palm sugared coconut on top. Pulut sri muka is another breakfast variation, a similar dish with pandan leaves mixed with the coconut. She said that in general what people had for breakfast was sticky rice plus "something" on top, mango or coconut or what have you.

One of the street foods I loved in that part of the world was ice cold hunks of green mango, on a stick, rolled in a Demarera (sp?) type brown sugar. So simple, and crazy good. Never had any other variation of rice for breakfast there except for a hot garlic and rice soup. But it makes perfect sense, doesn't it, that rice would be neccessary with just about every meal there.

Does your student pronounce her name like I do mine, rhyming with Denise? Though I've heard of a few people with my name, I've never actually met one and have therefore never called someone else by my name. It would feel very strange to do so.

The student is a boy, the mother is Janise pronounced "juh-NEECE"

I realize Janice is generally "JAN-iss." But mom is Portuguese-Malay so I can't say whether that is her original name...

I've been seeing green papayas in our local markets and wondering what they were good for... not green mangoes though.

The sugar was most likely palm sugar.

[Jenise]

The student is a boy, the mother is Janise pronounced "juh-NEECE"

I realize Janice is generally "JAN-iss." But mom is Portuguese-Malay so I can't say whether that is her original name...

I've been seeing green papayas in our local markets and wondering what they were good for... not green mangoes though.

The sugar was most likely palm sugar.

I was given the sound zhehNEECE but it was spelled Janice. And my last name was Chappell, as in ShuhPELL. Together, very French sounding. But people who saw it in print nearly always pronounced it JANiss CHAPel. I changed the spelling when I married Bob, solved a lot of problems!

Green papayas--have you never had/made the Vietnamese salad involving same? Delicious stuff.