Cheese and Thyme Savoury Rice Pudding

‘Not quite legitimately a risotto, but in need of a name that entices you into its evocative, creamy embrace’ is what I scrawled in the margin of this recipe in one of my many handwritten notebooks that are all half-full and haphazardly disorganized. It was in the same notebook, some nine years earlier, I had scribbled down notes while watching Nigel Slater on the television. Nigel was making a cheese and thyme soufflé with thyme picked from his garden and a handful of ingredients. I watche