Rice Pudding

I just found my favorite rice pudding recipe.  I have been making recipe pudding with eggs in the recipe and it has been a real pain in the butt.  I always ended up with little bits of scrambled eggs in the pudding.  It still tasted great but it felt like a mess up.  So~  I finally found a recipe that is delicious and NO SCRAMBLED eggs.
recipe adapted by Genius Kitchen.

• ³⁄₄ cup medium grain rice or ³⁄₄ cup long grain rice
• 1 ¹⁄₂ cups water
• ¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt (heaping)
• 4 cups whole milk (I use 2%)
• ¹⁄₂ cup sugar
• ¹⁄₂ teaspoon vanilla
• cinnamon
• I added 1/4 Cup raisins
• **** I didn't have whole milk so I used ~
• 2 cups low fat milk
• 2 cups Half &Half

Directions

1. Bring rice, water and salt to a boil over med-high heat.
2. Simmer covered until water has been absorbed (approximately 15 minutes).
3. Stir in milk and sugar and cook uncovered over medium heat for 30-40 minutes, stirring frequently--especially towards the end of cooking.
4. The pudding is done when the rice and milk have amalgamated into a thick porridge-like consistency.
5. DO NOT OVERCOOK or the pudding will be solid instead of creamy once cooled.
6. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
7. Turn into a bowl or cups.
8. You can sprinkle cinnamon on the top if you like.
9. COVER with plastic wrap directly on surface "IF" you don't want a skin.
10. COOL.

Rolo Turtles

Preheat oven 200 degrees
1. Line cookie sheet with the pecans, pick the best ones.  Toast in oven for 2 minutes.
2. Line a cookie sheet with Snyder's Butter Snaps.
3. I used the mini Rolo's because they are already unwrapped.   I put two Rolo's on some of the  pretzel's to see if it made a big difference.  I thought they were both great, my son like the pretzel   with 2 Rolo's.  I also tried Milky Ways...I probably won't do that again.

    4. Put them in the oven for 3 to 4 minutes, they will be soft because they are melting.

    5. As soon as you take them out of the oven press a pecan half into the center of the Rolo.