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ellerNo worries, this is not going to become a food blog. (I'd have to learn how to cook first!) Just an indicator of my mood: when I'm happy and relaxed, apparently, I enjoy making fancy desserts. :)
Yesterday's Dessert: Mango-Vanilla-Pudding
The thing in the middle is pudding - very basic pudding recipe (milk, cream, egg yolk, sugar and starch) to which I added ground vanilla and mango syrup. This is, of course, barbaric. It's just that I'm far too lazy to cook fruit until it's dry enough to flavor pudding! LOL Around that, I decorated with mango pieces (YAY fresh mango! I was lucky to get that!), and covered the whole thing in whipped cream. The photo was taken before the rest of the cream was added, because afterwards it looked a lot less interesting. XDD Tasted good, though!
Today's Dessert: Yogurt Pudding With Grapes
This one was a bit more difficult: first, I had to cook a "normal" pudding, just with twice the amount of starch, and then I had to add the yogurt and heat everything without letting it boil. For my standards, that's complicated. (Yes, you may laugh.) I didn't add any flavor stuff, just decorated the whole thing with grapes. It tasted niiiiiiice, too! (No cream for this one, of course: that would ruin the mild yogurt-y taste!)
Yesterday's Dessert: Mango-Vanilla-Pudding
The thing in the middle is pudding - very basic pudding recipe (milk, cream, egg yolk, sugar and starch) to which I added ground vanilla and mango syrup. This is, of course, barbaric. It's just that I'm far too lazy to cook fruit until it's dry enough to flavor pudding! LOL Around that, I decorated with mango pieces (YAY fresh mango! I was lucky to get that!), and covered the whole thing in whipped cream. The photo was taken before the rest of the cream was added, because afterwards it looked a lot less interesting. XDD Tasted good, though!
Today's Dessert: Yogurt Pudding With Grapes
This one was a bit more difficult: first, I had to cook a "normal" pudding, just with twice the amount of starch, and then I had to add the yogurt and heat everything without letting it boil. For my standards, that's complicated. (Yes, you may laugh.) I didn't add any flavor stuff, just decorated the whole thing with grapes. It tasted niiiiiiice, too! (No cream for this one, of course: that would ruin the mild yogurt-y taste!)
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Date: 2020-12-05 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-13 12:07 am (UTC)In the book The Grape Cure, the South African author Johanna Brandt dubs the grape "the queen of fruits."
I do recommend Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts: The Recipes of del Posto's James Beard Award-Winning Pastry Chef because he's a genius. The book is worth having if only to look at the pictures; I haven't yet cooked or baked anything from it.