rice pudding -vs- bread pudding - vs- tapioca pudding -vs- chocolate pudding -vs- flan

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FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTEEEEEEE!!!!!!

IT IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN!!!!!!!!

(nobody would really pick bread pudding, would they?)

ILX MAKES ME HUNGRY!!!

chocolate or tapioca? hmmmm, yummy yummy pearls! I CAN'T CHOOSE!!!!

These people own me: http://www.kozyshack.com/

MMMMMM, FLAN!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Rice pudding!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Define flan: French or Brit version? I ask because I had a gorge F Flan last week, flavoured with orange blossom. I still don't think it matches bread pudding, though. A proper one like they make at Hurst Castle, for example, is the food of the gods.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

"Define flan: French or Brit version?"

oh gosh, i don't think i know the difference. and they are probably both different than the flan you get in the states. Kozyshack - my lords and masters - makes a regular rice pudding AND a "European" rice pudding that is thicker and has more vanilla (and actual vanilla bean bits!) in it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Why do Americans call flan "Flarn"?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

also - Spanish/Portugese flan, which = creme caramel, sometimes with extra added pig fat mmmmmmmm

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh my word, rice pudding is amazing. I've got a great recipe that requires half an hour of stirring instead of 3 hours of waiting, and it's immense. On a chilly November evening, there is very little that beats rice pudding for sheer scrumptiousness.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Bread pudding or bread & butter pudding?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Rice pudding obv, providing it is proper homemade stuff and not that Ambrosia slime.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Rice pudding. I think Johnny B should post his recipe.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

This is like the Lesser of Five Evils questions!

None of the above! Yuck!

If someone was holding a gun to my head and demanding that I choose, I would pick Chocolate Pudding, I think, as at least the chocolateyness of it makes up for the vile revolting puddingness of it.

But generally, no. Ick.

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

My mam used to make rice pudding when I was a nipper, delicious smell of nutmeg and juicy sultanas. Absolutely num, comfort food par excellence.

I sometimes makes a bread and butter pudiing using a sweer brioche, spread with marmalade and dusted with cocoa. Rather darn good if I say so myself.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

let's not forget panna cotta.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

all of it pls. i will stand up as the lone bread pudding fan, as long as it's served scorchingly hot and not too sickly sweet.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

kozyshack REALLY has the market cornered on this stuff, very impressive. rice pudding, btw, totally rules.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever had tapioca pudding. I love rice pudding, bread pudding and flan — don't make me choose. You can have all the chocolate pudding, I don't want any.

I'm sorry Mrs. G is gone — this thread needs Garu saying "I MADE A POO AN THEN A WEE IN ME GRAN'S FLAN."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

This is difficult, and yet it is not really that difficult. Rice pudding at its best beats the competition.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

So many people are disgusted by tapioca. Fish eyeballs, etc.
That actually adds to its appeal. I can curl up on the sofa with my tapioca and croon to it "I'm you're ONLY friend..."

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

CHOCOLATE. it must be! I don't think I have tried tapioca, though.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

So many people are disgusted by tapioca. Fish eyeballs, etc.

BUBBLE TEA FANS REPRESENT! (Well, actually, I haven't tried it yet, but I know there are some fans around here.)

Of the selection given here I'd probably pick bread or chocolate pudding. But I intend to try making a hazelnut bavarian cream (I love love love toasted hazelnuts) some day.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

I love hazelnut. I hope you are inviting us all over.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Chocolate but no VANILLA?

― What Are You, Fucking Nuts?, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

FLAN!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

BUBBLE TEA FANS REPRESENT!

i like the fruity bubble drinks more than the tea. i'm gonna get one today i think!

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

None. Banana pudding 4 life!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I can't decide between rice pudding or bread-and-butter pudding. They can both be so delicious. Comfort food for the broken hearted!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Tapioca = frogspawn, obv

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

My mum always makes a lemon pudding in winter. It is amazing. It's better than anything listed in the thread title.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

what is bread and butter pudding pleeze? is it just bread pudding with extra butter or something?

sorry for forgetting vanilla pudding, vanilla pudding fan!!!!

mmm, tapioca. kozy shack tapioca is HEAVEN ON EARTH! (sorry for going on about the shack, but they DO rule.)

The competition is really heating up now! just as long as it doesn't heat up too much cuz then you will scorch your pot and get that skin on top of your pudding that some people hate!!! ahahaha. even the banana pudding fans have been heard from. they were feeling left out as usual.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

i could go for some lemon pudding, ronan. sounds delish. where do you stand on key lime pie?

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

No British people like tapioca due to getting frogspawn at school. I love it - cooked properly - and would not really eat anything else when I was five. Oh and I like the skin....

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I have never had lime pie!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I love the pudding skin.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

flan is just fucking rubbish. why does anyone dig flan?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna stand up for bread pudding...with rum sauce. Come to New Orleans and have some. You will never feel fuller. I had bread pudding French Toast at a brunch once...a gut buster.

― p.j. (Henry), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

nb, as we found out on I love cooking:

US bread pudding = UK bread and butter pudding

UK bread pudding = nummy bready, white dwarf in tummy style goodness

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I had bread pudding (US style) for breakfast this morning - mmmmmm. Alas, no rum sauce. Just sweet, custardy goodness.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Whiskey also makes a damn fine bread pudding sauce base.

― p.j. (Henry), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Scott's order on the top is almost mine exactly:

1) most rice pudding
2) bread pudding (although I've head an amazing choco bread pudding which is definitely the best)
3) tapioca pudding
4) chocolate pudding
5) flan

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Tapioca pudding, easy.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

i STILL haven't tried kozy shack's dulce de leche yet:

http://www.kozyshack.com/products/dulce.html

but i aim to rectify that situation real soon.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Kozy Shack is the bomb btw. Although the much cheaper gener-o Trader Joes version is also great.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

was eating at the indian place here (yeah there's only one, which is unfortunate because the quality has dropped off over the last few years) and the owner, who's a friendly though sorta creepy guy, gave me some complimentary rice pudding. the pudding is killer. i was curious about the indian name for it so i asked him, "what do you call this?"
he says: "rice pudding." ha!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

did you know that trader joes is owned by two of the richest men in germany? brothers karl & theo albrecht. worth around 25 billion dollars. and ladies, i hear that they are single.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

"was eating at the indian place here (yeah there's only one"

one more than me! :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

BREAD PUDDING.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I have gone to restaurants just so I could have their bread pudding (US-style, presumably) or flan (Spanish-style, presumably). If forced to choose between them, I think I would explode.

The others are tasty, but not nearly as magical.

― mikef (mfleming), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Rice pudding.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

"I'm you're ONLY friend..."
I meant YOUR only friend. God! I never do that. See, the very thought of tapioca has made me regress to an illiterate phase.
The thing to do with tapioca is suck all the custard out so you have only the fish eyeballs in your mouth, and then bite them between your canines like an ape eating termites.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

mmm.. rice pudding indian restaurant style, with saffron, is so good.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

i think it's called kheer.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

mmm...indian food.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

there is no thai food here either. :(

or vietnamese. :(

you think i could get indian food fedexed to me?

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

i just ate a trough-sized portion of bun xa with seafood. awesome. sorry, scott.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

i just ate rice pudding. it had to happen.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

i pick rice pudding but i don't particularly care for cozy shack's version sorry scott. i actually prefer the stuff Jewel - a local grocery chain - makes.
put coconut in any sort of pudding and I'd choose that.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Chocolate coconut bread pudding - mmmmmmm.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Flan>rice pudding>tapioca pudding>bread pudding>chocolate pudding>pudding on the ritz

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

pudding on the ritz

not cheez whiz?

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Ew, chocolate only. Don't like any of those squishy colorless foods, by the way. I mean, I've only made my peace with mayonnaise & sour cream in the last couple of years, and the white mushy sweets can still fuck right off. Chocolatize everything.

And tapioca tea with the huge bubbles is obv Satan's hand at work in the world.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

NANNER PUDDING FOR ME

in italy my nickname was 'budino'

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

wtf I meant I pick tapioca and I don't care for cozy shack's version. so now you'll have to totally disagree with me scott. it's too bland and oozy. that jewel stuff is firm and tasty.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

best pudding i've had was at pappadeaux's, i think. is that a national chain? banana pudding in a mason jar with nila wafers mmmm.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i will have to disagree with you, oops. i think their tapioca is heavenly. and i don't think it's oozy at all! maybe you need to go to a store with better refrigeration.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

this, of course, is the brand i grew up on:

http://www.jelsert.com/products/mytfine.htm

mmm, butterscotch. forgot all about it for a minute. i would sit at the stove as a kid stirring away all by myself. i was obsessed or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

ss - that Kozy Shack dulce de leche is very caramel/butterscotchy. Have you read Candyfreak? That guy got hypnotized watching chocolate flow. I've had the same thing happen at the Krispy Kreme curtain of glaze.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

when i first got a computer the first thing that captivated me wasn't the porn, it was watching lemonheads being born out of sheets of twirling swirling sugar:

http://www.ferrarapan.com/html/lh_tour.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

ferrara pan site STILL my fave web-site of all time!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

and yeah, first time i saw the krispy kreme show i was amazed. i have always been a sucker for rube goldberg/assembly line stuff. i used to watch this show called Marlo's Magic Movie Machine when I was a kid and every week they would show an assembly-line film clip. I could have watched them all day! I went on a tour of the big RJ Reynolds cigarette factory once, and, no matter where you stand on smoking, it was just an amazing process!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

i sorta agree with you. kozy shack's rice is really not as good as their tapioca or their chocolate. i probably would have bought tapioca, but the market i went to only had rice. it's too dense or something. but not bad! just not great
I was very glad to polish off your Kozyshack rice pudding, Scott. I have never minded density. Maybe we should go in on a bulk shipment of K.S. tapioca. Have a FAKST.
Hey, does anyone remember Shake-a-Pudding?

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Beth!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

I remember Shake-a-Pudding! I'd beg to take my lunch to school so I could have some.

scott, that Ferrara Pan website is brilliant!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I loved Shake-a-Pudding until my older brother deprogrammed me. He was into avoiding the evil chemicals of corporate amerika food and I was under his sway. So we threw our Shake-a-Puddings against an abandoned WWII radio tower.
I would NEVER do that now.
I also used to love Space Food Sticks, which were individually wrapped cigar-shaped snack items, sweet and slightly cardboardy—the perfect accompaniment to Star Trek.
I have recovered from all these childhood traumas.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Okay comfort food fans—what is the name of that Scandinavian dessert cheese? It's brown and slightly gritty. You shave off a thin slice with a cheese plane and just melt it on your tongue. At least I do. Or did. What WAS that stuff?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean gjetost?

I also found this Hometown Favorites site today. They have Maple Bun Bars, but no Shake-a-pudding.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I love ALLLL of these things.

What I love even more: creme brulee.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

i feel like the elephant in the room that nobody wants to acknowledge is custard. at some point we are going to have to bring it up if there is ever going to be any closure.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmmm - baked custard, or that custard-sauce stuff they sell in Australia in cartons as if it were milk. I admitted to eating a bowl of that for breakfast once when I was working in Sydney for a few weeks, and all my co-workers went "NO!" in unison.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

scott, I'm sorry you feel like the elephant in the room.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

GJETOST!!!!! Thank you Jaq.
No one would ever DIS THE CUS!
My mother used to make baked custard in pyrex custard cups with fluted edges. It was very plain, not too sweet, never betrayed you in any hostile gastrointestinal way.
Zabaglione!
And that rosewater stuff you get it middle-eastern restaurants. What is its name?
We are all so ready for our toothless golden years!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

And that rosewater stuff you get it middle-eastern restaurants. What is its name?

Firni?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I guess that could be considered a type of rice pudding, but the aesthetic is very different from what we have been discussing as rice pudding.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, I am off dairy products until the first frost, I think. Otherwise I'd be tempted to go get dinner and some firni at the local Afghan joint.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Well, when is the first frost where you live? I hope you're not in Perth.
The pudding I remember—from a restaurant in DC many years ago—was not lumpy at all—no rice grains—but it could have been rice-starch based.
I'm a sucker for comfort foods from all cultures. In a Chinese restaurant in LA our table was given a complementary sweet bean soup for dessert, which all my companions feared. I slurped it all up.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

oh good God! how have I avoided this thread? because the little story I have to tell you is so painful!
There was a shop in Northampton, called "Rice and Easy", that sold 50 different flavors of rice pudding! I knew they were doomed from the get-go. They also sold hot dogs, and art books, and had a flat screen TV showing PBS stuff. It was way too much- very confusing. But I did sample "Rocky Road" rice pudding, and some pistachio as well.
It was really good!They made good rice pudding at "Rice and Easy". It took me weeks to actually walk through the door because of, well, the name.
Tapioca is for acid freaks like Beth. I don't need a flashback when I'm slurping, thanks.
I like the chocolate pudding that is sold in little tiny individual containers,to pack into a lunch box. I EAT THEM ALL IN ONE SITTING!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Chocolate pudding is of another order. Once you throw chocolate into the mix you provoke all that heavy breathing. We're getting at something more pure here. I truly feel that Scott should have restricted the showdown to the GOLDEN puddings. Puddings of the Heart and Soul, not of the Loins.
What about creme caramel? I remember resisting creme brulee at first because it seemed to have usurped creme caramel's throne as the tiny French Pudding of Choice. It's basically French flan, I guess. Crustless, coated with its own caramel blood. I never see it on menus anymore. Fallen from favor.
I love creme brulee now, though. I love how it looks like someone used the ramequin as their ashtray when you get to the bottom. What is that stuff?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

You have been very remiss in not going to "Le Grenier". Chef Jean DuPont is (hopefully) still there to insult you.I worked for him- and set lots of things on fire, including some creme brulees.
He hated me and I hated him, and I got quit through an argument about the spelling of "ceaser salad".
The stuff in the bottom of the ramekin is from lighting it on fire. The crusty stuff is also from lighting it on fire.
Don't get me started about "steak au poivre".
Or Dulce de Leche.
Once you have set a pudding on fire, you tend to appreciate the simple, convenient puddings.
Especially when they are conveniently packaged for maximum consumption with minimal effort.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

pavlova

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

They should make a packaged pudding that bursts into flame when you open it!

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

My happiness is now going to rely on an exploding pudding. I want one!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, great! Something ELSE for the homeland security goons to confiscate at the airport.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I could give them some pudding? Goons need pudding too!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Tapioca is the king of puddings but the entire pudding kingdom is a place of great joy where everyone is always happy and kind, and why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MUCH DELICIOUS PUDDING.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I am moving to the pudding kingdom right now.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm partial to butterscotch sugar free Jello pudding. Yum!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

I should make some pudding, while I wait for my house to be blown down.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

nero ate pudding while rome got diddled.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

That old adage: "Make hay while the sun shines, make pudding while the hurricane hits."

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

The first time I had flan it was homemade and drenched in some sort of fruity sauce and just magnificent -- I had never even heard of it.

Every flan since then has been a crushing disappointment.

Rice and tapioca of the ones listed in the subject, but I ask: Does crème brûlée count? Because it pwns.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm so going to make rice pudding right now!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

No I'm not! I don't have nearly enough milk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Do not use buttermilk!

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I have nonfat powdered dry milk. I realized I should have used that the last time I was milkless.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

What happens when you reconstitute nonfat powdered dry milk with heavy cream?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Heat death of the universe.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

You can make substitute whole milk - replace about 1/4 of the water with heavy cream.

or, what Rock Hardy says. Warn me if the freeze is coming up the Columbia please.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I should make some pudding, while I wait for my house to be blown down.
If you eat enough pudding the weight of your body will prevent house blow-down. Get cracking.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

And stir against the wind.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

I am laughing so hard right now.
Is Beth the queen of the pudding kingdom? I think so!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

(Tonight on When I Love Cooking attacks!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe nobody else has bothered to do this:
"What is the matter with Mary Jane,
She hasn't an ache and she hasn't a pain,
And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again.
What is the matter with Mary Jane?"
AA Milne - Now We Are Six

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Is Beth the queen of the pudding kingdom?

God save our gracious Beth,
Long live our noble Beth,
Give her some flan;
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Pudding rain over us:
God save the Queen.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I am in fact making rice pudding.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

I am the Pudding Queen
I have a confession to make: My name is Allura Ellington. I have eaten sixteen boxes of pudding since August 27. I am addicted to pudding.

Of course, this all started when I had my wisdom teeth taken out and has been perpetuated by the fact that I am still not able to eat much in the way of solid food. However, even at this point when I can usually muster the fortitude to make it through one regular meal a day (and you think I'd be tired of pudding by now), I still slaver over the idea of having pudding at some point in the day.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

ALLURA!!!!
Quick, everyone, HIDE YOUR PUDDING!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god! I can't believe I just had to do a search for the PUDDING thread. Scary! That must have been how the residents of ancient Troy felt as the sands started covering their city. Someday a computer archaeologist will dig up this thread and go, Eureka! Now we know what happened to early 21st century civilization. It all came crashing down in a titanic struggle for the PUDDING CROWN!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost: I'm a big bubble tea fan. The little tapioca balls can be a bit freaky though. And make sure you never get the plum flavored kind.

As for the thread title, really hard:

1. Rice pudding (as long as it's not too watery)
2. Bread Pudding (from a restaurant it's great, haven't really gotten it from a store)
3. Tapioca (I remember the first time I tried it was actually from a vending machine)
4. Chocolate Pudding (a good standby)
5. Flan (only because I haven't had it in years)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Wow, you're the first person to actually take the assignment seriously and not go off on some wacko psycho tangent! Thank you! But you're wrong, sad to say. Tapioca is superior to rice pudding by virtue of the geometric perfection of the tapioca beads.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

strange i didn't post to this, as i feel very strongly about homemade vanilla pudding. really fucking good stuff, one of my favorite things when made well with the right amount of sugar and good vanilla.

the kozy shack stuff is decent, they use real ingredients rather than filling it with weird chemicals that taste funny.

i can't put the various puddinglike substances in a ranking order because some are such wonderful comfort food, and some (flan, dulce de leche yummmm) are not things i've gotten to have as often (or haven't made from scratch). but they all rock. rice pudding i prefer the indian type rather than the american stuff. i am leery of desserts that sometimes include raisins.

(xp tapioca totally wins over rice, i agree)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Plus rice pudding and bread pudding, divine though they may be, are traditionally made out of old stale leftovers. Tapioca, choc pud. and flan are made up to order. Made out of love, not thrifty guilt.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm with you on the raisins, too. Why do they always put them in carrot cake?
I like them in empanadas, where their sweetness is a surprise amidst the savoriness, not in desserts where they're put there on some lame nutritional impulse.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh well. Goodbye pudding thread. It's been sweet.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

OH MY GOD!!! THE PUDDING THREAD IS BACK!!!!!!
I was bitterly disappointed by dessert at a restaurant (Cafe MOXIE, for you Vineyarders) last night. They used to serve a warm chocolate souffle with whipped cream. It was amazing—cakey at the edges, molten chocolate lava at the center.
So last night I noticed that they'd changed the name to "Chocolate Bomb" on the dessert menu. I asked the waiter and he reassured me it was the same thing. IT WAS NOT!!!!!!
It was a COLD log of fudge, the size and consistency of chevre. I ate one bite. Donald "the gleaner" finished it off.
I woke up this morning still pissed.
SO, I have decide to learn how to make a chocolate souffle! I'll keep y'all posted. Some of you may have to travel great distances (like from OAK BLUFFS) to sample this future masterpiece, so save up.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 3 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

my pal maggie brought me back some deep fried chocolate truffles the other nite that were awfully yummy. from Balance (this will only do beth any good to know this). this is such an un-pudding post. i'm ashamed of myself.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

chocolate bombes are nothing like chocolate souffles. though i highly approve of both.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I do too, but my approval of chocolate souffle is stronger. This thing at the restaurant had no 'e' on the end. And it WAS a bomb, in the cinematic sense, in that it was not what I had been looking forward to. I held back on dinner to keep my appetite for this dessert! FEH!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Beth, that was wild. I waited for you to respond to my post and instead you walked in my door. Such great service on ILE.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeech to rice pudding. The rice pudding with the hard grains of rice not a good texture - while tapioca, the little pearls all smooth amid the mix a winner. Bread pudding. Too, too..something. Sweet perhaps and heavy? Not good. While chocolate is heavy, but in a good way. Flan can be too sweet too and because of this iffy nature, I am going to say thumbs down - while plain old mom type baked custard in the pyrex fluted cups is a total thumbs up as is the wickedly good creme brulee. There now that is settled in my mind. I have seen this thread a dozen times race to the top, but I could not bring myself to think about the horrid nature of rice pudding. YEECH.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Pudding Queen Beth:

The difference between Rice Pudding and Tapioca on my list is like the length of a fingernail. Tapioca and Bubble tea together (not literally) surely beat any of the puddings.

Has anyone seen Kozy Shack's "European Rice Pudding?" It tastes pretty much exactly like the original kind.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 3 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Assuming that each of these are GOOD, I vote:
1) Bread
2) Rice
3) Chocolate
4) Flan
5) Tapioca

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Okay, okay, I'll eat your tapioca!
I hope that all of us will someday share a ward in a long-term care facility. Even with most of our teeth in place (and I realize that this is a bold assumption) we're perfectly happy to suck all our food up with a straw!!!!
The other morning while making breakfast I was getting ready to put a big plop of vanilla yogurt onto my oatmeal, and instead I plopped it into my coffee. I tossed it and started over, but I now realize that was WRONG. That's probably how Bubble Tea was invented! Accident! I've never had Bubble Tea, but I'm assuming it's a beverage with agreeable solids at the bottom.
Oh, Scott! Woe are we on this food-forsaken rock!
We were all set for an urban fix in Cambridge, but my niece's apartment where we always stay has a broken toilet. Is this some sort of KARMA at work? So we're going up to my sister's cabin in Brattleboro, where we'll have to make do with the macaroni-and-cheese OF THE GODS from the little red deli on rte 9.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 4 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Apparently the word "pudding" comes from a word that meant "sausage" and the puddings in this thread evolved from grain sausages. Or something like that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I get it hence, blood pudding. Not to be confused with sweets.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Unless you are (xpost) an old doggie.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Lord Ganesha's two powers are the Kundalini and the Vallabha or power of love.

He is very fond of sweet pudding or balls of rice flour with a sweet core. On one of His birthdays He was going around house to house accepting the offerings of sweet puddings. Having eaten a good number of these, He set out moving on His mouse at night. Suddenly the mouse stumbled--it had seen a snake and became frightened--with the result that Ganesha fell down. His stomach burst open and all the sweet puddings came out. But Ganesha stuffed them back into His stomach and, catching hold of the snake, tied it around His belly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

the moral being: where there is a will there is a way to eat more pudding.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Bubble tea to me doesn't really taste like tapioca, it's more of the charm/odd sensation of drinking and all of the sudden little tapioca balls shoot into your mouth. A bunch of people I know find a bit unsettling. I think you really need to get a light tea (I prefer a mint green flavor) for it to work well. Get a vanilla or sweetly flavored tea and the flavor becomes way too strong.

Beth are you near Cambridge, MA? There is a good bubble tea place right in Harvard Square, hilariously called "Boston Tea Stop." The best bubble tea I've had near Boston is at Infusions Tea Spa in Allston. They also have tea-eggs, which are hard-boiled eggs boiled in herbal tea. Strangely good.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm picturing a hard boiled egg stuck halfway up your straw like a rat in a snake's gullet.
I'll certainly go to the tea place on my next Cambridge trip (I'm on the Vineyard).
I've been looking for Thai iced tea mix, and the first place on the Google page advertises Thai style Tapioca tea!!!!!!!
I have mixed feelings about making Thai iced tea at home. Things could get out of hand. I also wouldn't want to get sick of it. That would be terrible. But maybe not. In Thai restaurants (of which there are NONE here) It's always hard for me to decide between the iced tea and the iced coffee. Usually it's my caffeine requirement that calls the shots. But if I was SICK of the iced tea, the decision-making process would be streamlined.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I've never had That style tapioca tea, maybe one of the local Thai food places has it. It's weird there are none by you, in Allston when walk down the street it's just a matter of town before you bump into to like 3 Thai/Indian places.

Will Kozy Shack ever make a Bread Pudding? I don't think I ever seen bread pudding at the supermarker.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

We live on CRAZY island, Michael!!! We are all set when it comes to lobster rolls though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I have actually never been to Martha's Vineyard! I feel lame.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

No! WE are lame. We have no Thai food! Scott, you must know that lobster rolls are made from the meat of "sleepers," as lobsters who die in the fish market tank are euphemistically called. When Donald used to work at Poole's one of his jobs was to check the sleepers. He would smell them to see how long they'd been dead. There's a limit to thriftiness. At any rate, Donald NEVER eats lobster rolls.
Now all the fishmonger ilxors are gonna sue me.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I would think they would at least open a Brown Sugar Thai Food place over there.

I can't stand the smell of most seafood, so I can imagine having a job smelling dead lobsters would taint my nose for life.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 5 September 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Is Brown Sugar Thai food a fast-food franchise? I'm THERE!! There's a Thai place in Falmouth that we try to get to when we're returning to the island. It shares a parking lot with a laundromat, so as soon as you get out of your car you're assaulted by the smell of Bounce. The best beef salad in the WORLD. We load up, take it back to the island. Takes the sting out of mainland withdrawal. And of course, quarts of lovely melon-colored iced tea.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 September 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

i feast on thai/vietnamese/chinese when we go to newton to visit maria's step-mom. we got great take-out from a pan-asian place one of the last times i was there. i never thought i could live so long without it. you really can get used to anything. (yes. i know new orleans has been destroyed. but they had easily available thai food up until last week! i'm kidding! i have been aching for them. and some gumbo.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Jambalaya! Those dense little rounds of andouille sausage. Oh god!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Brown Sugar has a couple of stores in the Boston area, they've won Best Thai restaurant in the yearly "Best of Boston" for a few years running.

Does Bounce really have that distinctive of a smell?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

It's bad. People use Bounce sheets as deer repellent in the garden. Of course, lots of laundry soap stinks of chemical perfumes. Who knows what the smell is. Bounce is just a good candidate for the parking lot stench because people put it in the dryer and the dryer is what vents to the outside. I'd rather have my clothes smell like food. They should make Jambalaya dryer sheets.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Weird, I dubt I could tell any of the 20 one-name detergent brands apart via smell.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

*doubt

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Can I be indelicate and ask what the hell do those huge opaque brown balls have to do with tiny translucent tapioca balls? This is a serious question FYI. They go bu the same name, no?!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

The smell of Bounce takes me right back to my childhood.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

Are the tapioca balls in bubble tea huge and brown? I've never had it. Maybe tapioca, like hominy, comes in a variety of bead-sizes. It's starch from cassava roots, so I guess they could go the big-lump route. And maybe it takes on the color of its matrix. Just guessing. I can't resist answering a question, even if I'm totally unqualified.
The cassava thing reminds me—my first husband, who was from Bahia, used to make a cake from mandioca (what he called cassava), coconut, sugar and eggs. No flour. It was this moist dense brick of love.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

The tapioca balls are small bead-like and brown, they can fit through a large straw. It's more like they exist separately from the tea, not as mixture of flavors.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Beth, going by all your previous pudding postings I predict you are going to love the big brown bubbles in bubble tea. They are divine.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Big bubbles, tiny bubbles, I'm going to try them all! But what could the huge opaque brown balls be that so traumatized Wiggy? It could be that MISTAKES WERE MADE.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Hey! I FOUND Kozy Shack tapioca at Cronig's Up-Island market!!!!! In little kiddie lunchbox cups!!! This may be the beginning of the end. I can't work for a couple of months because I hurt my shoulder, so I'm just going to lie around and eat pudding and watch movies. I'm trying to view this as a journey of discovery rather than a disability.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I had a great idea, Scott—if we ever open our own music club we should call it...
THE KOZY SHACK!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE, THE PUDDING THREAD RETURNS!!!!!
I have finally had BUBBLE TEA!!! At the Brattleboro VT farmer's market, served in a mason jar that I had to return to the booth when I was done.
I was the Death Star, sucking up the brown tapioca planetoids through the fat straw, pthwip pthwip pthwip!!!!
Die, tapioca planetoid dwellers! I vanquish you!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 17 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I have a stomach-ache.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Beth! help me...I am traumatized. Tapioca are nice smooth small opalescent spheres. Those...those THINGS in the bottom of that STUFF. They are what appear to be rabbit turds fouling what otherwise looks like creamy wonderful smoothies....they look NOTHING like what I know tapicoa to be creamy & delicious. Let me see if I can link a photo of the stuff:

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

There's a diner a block south from my work that serves, like, the best rice pudding ever.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

No one has talked about bread pudding. There's a restaurant here on Martha's Vineyard, Zephrus, that is mediocre in everything except their bread pudding, which is very dark chocolate and served warm with whipped cream. One of the best desserts I've ever had, worth going there just for that, but they probably wouldn't let you because shitty attitude is part of their mediocrity.
Fie on them.
I bought a peanut butter cookie for dessert tonight, but noticed too late than it was VEGAN. Total suck city.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

It had the texture of freshly-laid road tar.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

There needs to be more bread pudding in supermarkets!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Picket lines are called for.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Boba look like rabbit poop to me, too, Wiggy - perhaps you and I should try them together. (That way if we hate them, we can go drink bourbon instead!)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 September 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Bourbon Bubble Tea! That'll be your training-wheels drink. Maker's Mark with masticateables. I want a videotape.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

To Whom It May Concern:

Several Months ago I picked up your My T Fine Tiramisu pudding. It was very good and we all enjoyed it. I purchased it in Shop Rite.
Lately I have not seen it on the self. Could you please tell me if you still continue to make it. If you continue to make it would you please tell me where I may purchase it. I live in New Jersey and in Bergen County.

― Mrs. Clark Parkhurst, Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Buy it online here. You can buy everything online, it doesn't matter where you live. Pudding, delivered to your doorstep! You need never leave the house!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Revive!

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 23 May 2009 00:34 (seventeen years ago)

BREAD pudding is the winner! I am obsessed with making the Platonic ideal of bread pudding. I am about 78% close. This recipe is next on my to-try list. I have a pretty good recipe now that I need to work the kinks out of, or I could just jump ship to this one.

Does anyone know of a good recipe for bourbon sauce? nom nom nom

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I have to go with bread pudding too followed by rice and then tapioca.

― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

Actually the sauce w/that recipe looks awesome. This bananas foster bread pudding looks awesome but might have a possible risk of gloppiness, of which I am no fan.

That blog gives me boners.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

Bread pudding made w/King's Hawaiian bread is...oh my god...excuse me while I pop some more boners in memory of its nommitude...

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

Oh god she has a recipe for pear nutmeg bread pudding.

Brioche is rly good for bread pudding too.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

The pudding thread is back! What memories.

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

Seriously, every once in a while I get freaking OBSESSED with trying to make some or another challenging thing to feed my sugar obsession. As follows:

• Age 7: "Fortune cookies." My mom had some cookbook from the library that had a recipe for them. I tried to make them but the dough was too thick AND I burnt myself repeatedly making them (you flipped them like fried eggs &, hell, I was freaking seven). I discovered, though, they were pretty decent if you baked them like regular cookies...they were just these slightly puffy, dry, dense, not very sweet pastries. I made them ALL the time, just obsessed with the recipe bcz I 'invented' it. No one else in the family would eat them.

• Age 9: My dad got some Christmas gift basket at work w/a mysterious new treat called 'divinity.' I totally fell in love with it and decided I needed to make it. I didn't even have a candy thermometer (I burned myself a lot doing the 'soft ball test') but I got pretty damn good at it. I made it so much no one else in my family wanted to eat it; they all got sick of it. More for me, eh? I think this phase caused a lot of cavities. Divinity got easier when my mom got a Kitchen-Aid bcz I'd burnt out the motors of so many electric hand mixers they figured it wld be a good investment.

Age 11:
http://fantes.com/images/7869pizzelle.jpg
Pizzelles! My mom bought a pizzelle iron in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and naturally I decided they were the best fucking things ever. The thing was, tho, as you can see from the illustration, you cld only make one at a time. The iron was heated on a stovetop range – you put a glob of dough on it and flipped it midway to get it all golden brown on both sides. One: pizzelles were SO awesome I was willing to spend an afternoon flipping an iron & burning myself repeatedly. Two, challenging goals were involved: the idea was to put on just enough dough that it didn't spill over but also filled the entire circle, & make it evenly the same color on both sides, and not too dark of brown. My sister got me a plug-in pizzelle iron for my wedding gift, and it makes TWO at a time in less than a minute without flipping them! This STILL blows mymind. However, I still accidentally burn myself on it.

Currently: bread pudding;. I don't burn myself, not even pulling it out of the water bath! Fuckin' A.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:38 (seventeen years ago)

kheer ftw?
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2130509/23038299-main_Full.jpg

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 02:45 (seventeen years ago)

ha my mom bought a PIZELLE maker when we were about that age and we made delicate wafery boring white ppl PIZELLES all season long and stored them in tupperware bins for seemingly endless after-supper consumption. they all tasted like ANISE.

― asplundh tree expert co. (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

more like ANUS

― asplundh tree expert co. (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:13 (seventeen years ago)

i never even heard of a pizelle until now it reminds me of PIZZONE

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:48 (seventeen years ago)

throw another zed in it

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

cant go with u too many z's

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:50 (seventeen years ago)

why is flan in this selection - it's the odd one out! I'm way into tapioca right now because of bubble tea so that's my choice.

― rainy, Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:53 (seventeen years ago)

Oooh bubble tea does give tapioca an edge. Hmmmm.

― TAT THY SAD EAGLE (ENBB), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

I think that's making it the odd one out, that argument! ie wld you drink a tea with chunks of bread pudding or flan in it?

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

yeah lol that's just plain tapioca qua tapioca not tapioca PUDDING

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:58 (seventeen years ago)

i kinda do think of flan in the pudding category even though it's not pudding

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 03:59 (seventeen years ago)

a good flan is sooooo delicious

― I've never heard of a single one of those blogs. (Matt P), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:00 (seventeen years ago)

not REALLY a pudding person in general though

― I've never heard of a single one of those blogs. (Matt P), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:00 (seventeen years ago)

i haven't had pudding in like...............4 years

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

oh wait except rice pudding duh

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not arguing, I'm just saying I'll take anything with tapioca. I've never had it in pudding format but I bet it's bloody good!

― rainy, Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:01 (seventeen years ago)

yeah it is probably the best pudding after rice pudding

― hell bus ride (harbl), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:02 (seventeen years ago)

bread pudding is dud

― rainy, Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

Rice pudding!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:12 AM (3 years ago)

lol

― man see united (k3vin k.), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

I think I was just brought up a food snob (esp re: desserts) but I can't rly get behind Kozy Shack goods.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:04 (seventeen years ago)

shame on you!

― scott seward, Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

the shack = love

― scott seward, Saturday, 23 May 2009 04:14 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.culinaryconcoctionsbypeabody.com/2006/12/19/ultimate-in-comfort/

guys this is fucking amazing

― O time thy pyramids (Abbott), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

Have you made this? Cuz I'm def def gonna. 'Twill be the triumph of the week.

Have to substitute "cups" for real measurements such as "some", though.

― CEO OF MY LYFE (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

I made it last night...oh god is it ever good.

― O time thy pyramids (Abbott), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

made it w/out raisins tho bcz I hate raisins

― O time thy pyramids (Abbott), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

Does anyone else find it hilarious on sites like epicurious how all the comments are like "omg amazing recipe my family loved it, I substituted kale for the leeks and used sour cream instead of yogurt, added 3 tsp of cayenne pepper and halved the vinegar, and used chicken instead of pork, it was SO GOOD everyone should make this recipe 4 stars"

― O time thy pyramids (Abbott), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

i was coming here to post 'bread pudding by a mile' but you have upped the game abbott

*want*

― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

I made Nigella Lawson's caramel croissant bread pudding and it was DIVINE. You caramelize the sugar, add in cream, and then put a shot of bourbon....like dying and going to heaven.

― musically, Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

If I am ever in possession of a packet of stale supermarket croissants I will remember this thread.

Abbot, I hate substitutors on recipe sites too.

― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

and I'm looking at that recipe above and if your bread pudding needs "sauce" then your bread pudding is not good enough. sticking a bunch of crap on it is necessary if you're using crappy bread and boring ingredients.

― musically, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

This thread reminds me to make a chess pie very soon.

― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

i had some flan after lunch today and holy shit i forgot how much i love flan.

― ian, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

i bought pudding tonight for the first time in months. i must have smelled a thread revive.

― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

I totally want to make that bread pudding recipe.

I had some really good flan a couple weeks ago that reminded how great it can be if its not a watery mess.

― Michael F Gill, Monday, 14 September 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

Hahah its the same on Taste.com.au - so many people are like "this recipe is amazing but I omitted [essential ingredient that is whole point of the recipe]" because I dont like it yuk!".

Or they say "This was lovely, but I added garlic and oregano and vegemite and cheese and tomato sauce and a little bit of chilli".

― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Monday, 14 September 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

finally got rounding to making this a few days ago. does not look amazing I admit, but really does taste incredible.

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/nick-uptoeleven/Image064-1.jpg

― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

Is that a blueberry pudding cake? Or chocolate chip?

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

Don't tell Cutty.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

It is Abbott's bread pudding. Which I ate half of cuz I had nothing else for dinner and felt quite sick even though was super nom.

― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

the devil makes work for invalid londoners

― kell surprise (country matters), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

get well soon in all srsness and plz mail me pudding

― kell surprise (country matters), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

And how am I gonna get a bloody pudding dish to the postbox, huh? You should just come round and eat soem.

― Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

lol was joeking abt mail but yeah we shd do fbl at the pub some day soon if yr sufficiently mobile...nuff procrastination already

― kell surprise (country matters), Thursday, 1 October 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

I think kugel should be part of this FITE. I had two excellent sweet noodle kugels this week and they were wonderful and satisfying the same way that bread pudding is wonderful and satisfying.

― quincie, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

not any of these but PLUMBLE tbh:
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg187/nick-uptoeleven/Image071-1.jpg

― I never saw the advantage of peeing while standing. (Upt0eleven), Monday, 26 October 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

i would never get a job as a culinary photographer.

― I never saw the advantage of peeing while standing. (Upt0eleven), Monday, 26 October 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

I think I had my first bread pudding maybe two years ago? It's a staple (?) here so the woman who gave it, was shocked I'd never had it. It's really yummy.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:00 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yum I love plums cooked up like that! And will always always always love bread pudding.

― quincie, Monday, 26 October 2009 17:08 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not much of a pudding fan. Don't like creamy things. As a child they actually made me gag/vomit.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

Microwave rice-pudding is kinda awesome.

Well, in terms of washing up.

― hey it's (jel --), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:10 (sixteen years ago)

Plumble = plum crumble?

Wld so eat it!

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

I want peach cobbler now...

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

kheer is one of my fav things on indian buffets, but i never leave enough room for more than a tiny bit. also, gulab jamun. indian sweets are so full of win.

― the tamiflu show (get bent), Monday, 26 October 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Will Kozy Shack ever make a Bread Pudding? I don't think I ever seen bread pudding at the supermarker.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, September 5, 2005 7:48 PM (twelve years ago)

http://www.dairyfoods.com/ext/resources/2012_January/archives/d/dfx0112-NPR1-feature.jpg?1328855715

― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:05 (eight years ago)

http://www.contest-corner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kozy-shack-bread-pudding.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:06 (eight years ago)

Thèse are all my favorite desserts.

I loved Spanish style flan as a kid and now I love Parisien style flan too, the kind that's more solid and has a crust. I had a Breton variety over the weekend, with prunes, that was between a flan and a bread pudding.

― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:43 (eight years ago)

flan is better than all these imo

my mom makes the best one obv

― marcos, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

hell yeah

― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 01:31 (eight years ago)

i never get enough flan

― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 01:31 (eight years ago)

12 years later, my prayers answered.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:18 (eight years ago)

flan is remarkably easy to make tbh

― marcos, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:36 (eight years ago)

very simple

mix eggs, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla in a bowl
carmelize sugar in a skillet
get a baking dish, pour carmelized sugar liquid into it and spread it around, wait for it to cool and harden for a second
pour the egg/milk mixture into the baking dish
bake
chill

― marcos, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:38 (eight years ago)

flan's fine but it's a custard not a pudding (?), but i feel like butterscotch blows away other puddings

― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:53 (eight years ago)

ty, marcos

― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:24 (eight years ago)

Mango sticky rice ftw

― Eazy, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:31 (eight years ago)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

I might have to order that tonight now.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 20:33 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

Peach cobbler question; ice cream or custard? It's basically a crumble, so could go with either? Recipes I've seen are all about the ice cream though?

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 10:17 (eight years ago)

Not sure what a cobbler is but I would always go for custard on a crumble.

― nate woolls, Thursday, 5 October 2017 10:24 (eight years ago)

I bought custard.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:27 (eight years ago)

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