Lengthy title, I realize, but I had to hint at how truly awesome this dessert dish is. It marries the creaminess of rice pudding, a tang of cardamom and subtly sweet bananas cooked in a rum sauce.

Simon Johnson is less than impressed with the results of Saturday’s G20 meeting of central bankers and foreign ministers. He writes on the blog Baseline Scenario: “It was a disaster – we face what officials readily concede is the biggest financial and economic crisis since the 1930s, yet this conclave agreed precisely nothing that will make any difference”. In a correlated article for the Telegraph, Johnson delves into the details.