Honestly, I may not have made this quite right. I may have over-toasted the rice a bit and I may not have cooked the rice long enough. The recipe says to cook until al dente, but I may have stopped a tad too soon. Rice, when I don’t use my rice cooker, is always a bit fussy to me.

There was definitely less of a stampede into my room at nap time today. Whether that is because the flavor did not excite people or they forgot, who knows. But here are the comments of the faithful.

Smoky taste that leads into the smoky flavor. Very rich. Not my favorite, but not horrible. Buttermint still in the lead for this girl! ~Brooke

It is sweet and it could be one that I will really like, but it had a burned rice aftertaste that took from the coconut taste. ~Jo Ann

Flavor was good. A lot like rice pudding. Rice had a nutty texture. I think some toasted coconut would compliment the flavor nicely. ~Christine

Not too bad—texture . But I like the taste of the ice cream. ~Miss Tee

Not so much. ~Linda B.

Not my fave. ~Candice

The rice in the ice cream wasn’t my favorite. It was a strange combo, but fun to try something new! ~Erica

Well, it looks like this one might be a no for future ice cream batches. Whether my botch (never!) or just not people’s cup of tea, who knows. We’ll have to try it at Jeni’s when it’s in season to truly know.

Tomorrow is Pistachio! It should be super tasty. Wednesday is also the release of the highly anticipated cookbook! Which I will pick up after work (save me a copy!) On Friday I will have a poll on the blog for favorite weekly flavor. Vote whether you’ve tried Jeni’s or got to partake of it here with me at work. At the end of our ice cream extravaganza we’ll poll to see which flavor wins favorite ice cream.

Sneak Peak!

I took some Pistachio ice cream over to Lora and Mike’s before we went to see Lord of the Rings—in the theater (I know, it felt a little like five years ago, and then we realized it was actually 10 years ago! Whaaaaat?)

But freaking out about how time keeps ticking as you watch a three hour aside, here is Laura’s reaction to tomorrow’s ice cream flavor.