This Coconut and Vanilla Bean Brown Rice Pudding is the perfect bowl of healthy comfort you’ve been dreaming of all winter long. It’s sweetened with maple syrup too!
Thank goodness for selective memories. Not what you were expecting for the opening line of a coconut vanilla bean rice pudding recipe. I swear this is going somewhere…
I should clarify my statement. Thank goodness for our selective memory for happy moments. I could get all psych-geek on you but instead I’ll explain this in one very dumbed down sentence: Our brains are wired to have a memory bias for positive events while not-so-positive events are forgotten much easier.
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Why am I discussing this today? Because I’m quite certain that the events of the great theft of 2014 will be buried deep beneath the amazing memories made with friends and family from my recent San Francisco trip. In fact, I’ve found a lot of comfort in this. When my laptop and wallet were initially stolen I thought the end of the world had come and my whole trip (and life) were ruined. But then I thought back to my Cog Psych class and the hours spent studying memory biases and remembered that 10 years from now I probably wouldn’t remember this so-called “traumatic” event but that incredible day spent wine tasting in Sonoma would be crystal clear.
Actually anything after 11:00 AM likely won’t be so clear…whoops.
All of this got me thinking about my childhood memories and how almost all of them are pretty idyllic. I should make clear that my upbringing was pretty spectacular, but those little moments filled with tantrums, fights and embarrassing moments have long since faded.
I have strong memories of our road trips to NY where we went skating and ate rice pudding (hence the recipe) at Bear Mountain. I don’t remember fighting with my siblings though knowing us someone probably wasn’t talking to someone at the time.
We will forever idealize the past. It’s probably why I spend too many hours wishing to turn back time. But in many ways, the intelligence of our brains makes me hopeful for the future. Because even when shit hits the fan we probably won’t remember it…
Wednesday, November 28, 2018