Ultimate Slow Cooker Chocolate Rice Pudding (Champorado)

Sticky rice cooked in coconut milk and chocolate. This chocolate rice pudding is the ultimate breakfast sweet treat or when served with ice cream - a truly yummy dessert - Champorado!

We had a lot of snow this past week and as I write it's still a few inches on the ground and according to the weather prediction there will be more dumping come Sunday afternoon! I can't really complain because this winter has been particularly mild and hasn't really snowed a lot until a few days ago. However, since the car was left on the driveway in the middle of the snow storm and the fact that our driveway inclines upwards towards the road - that meant we were stuck for the last couple of days at home.

Cherry Vanilla Pudding Cake

If you are Filipino and by any chance a Martial Law Baby (born in the early 70s in the Philippines) then you'd be so familiar with Nutribun. "Nutri" stands for "nutrition" while  "bun" is, obviously, a bread roll. Nutribun is the name given to a bread roll developed in the early 70's by USAID to feed students in public schools in the Philippines. Flour from the USA (and others say from Canada and Australia, too) were shipped to the Philippines to make these bread rolls. Each bun was supposed to contain at least 500 calories and enough nutrients for a day for a child who possibly wouldn't have had anything to eat except for the bread he or she got from school.

Marshmallow Pudding (Malva Pudding)

As of this writing, we are in Brussels, Belgium and staying with friends that we met when we lived in South Africa for about six months. We actually stayed in their house while we were there and now we are staying with them again as they are now stationed in Brussels.