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Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding recipe, blogged: sweetapolita.com/2011/09/krispy-kreme-bread-pudding-with-...
Still craving Western food, Julia turned to Jamie for a cannelloni recipe.
The wonderful tomato sauce with basil and garlic was very good, but the creme fraiche made the whole dish too rich. I was quite shocked ot see 4 types of cheese in the dish! Ricotta in the filling, mozarella in the topping, creme fraiche instead of bechamel sauce, and finally, grated parmesan cheese on top!
Next time, I think we'll just do tomato sauce and parmesan, or perhaps Antonio Carluccio's baked gnocchi with the simple tomato sauce and parmesan cheese.
I spooned the extra filling into a ramekin lined with basil and it turned out to be a nice little baked ricotta pudding! I'll do that again, but squeezing more moisture from the spinach.
awesome spinach and ricotta cannelloni recipe - Jamie Oliver
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Southern Kerala and Tamil Nadu - February 2008 - On the road in India
At Thanksgiving Rudi reminded me of a grim statistic regarding Indian traffic: India has 4% (or is it 5?) of the world's motor vehicles and 25% of the world's traffic fatalities. Even having visited India once before, I couldn't imagine the chaos and frequent danger of being on the road. Of course the conditions we encountered ran the gamut from smooth, quiet country lanes where our tandem was the fastest on the road to unbelievable chaos where it felt like a bit of a miracle to make it through the day.
By the end of five weeks though, we never crashed, and except for one goat I can't even recall that we ran into anything. As in the U.S. the traffic law in India seems to be that if you get there first, you have the right to the road. This law is taken to its logical extreme such that there's really no reason to ever look behind you. Pay attention to what's in front, be ready to brake and avoid sudden turns. In this sense I could see order to it all and certainly enjoyed heavy, slower traffic to the far too common high-speed chicken matches with buses which left us more than once bouncing off the edge of the tarmac. It's no surprise that fatal bus accidents are reported almost daily in the newspaper.
Coastal Kerala
We arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram airport at about 4am and cycled out of the "city" 26 hours later. The city hardly ended. During our first three days of pedaling, I'm not sure that we were ever out of sight of people and buildings. Perhaps we shouldn't have found this surprising. Kerala has the highest population density of any state in India. And within the state the highest density is found in the southern half of the state on the flat strip of land between the sea and the hills - exactly where we rode the first three days. We mostly avoided the fast traffic of the main road, usually riding a road closer to the coast. The network of paved roads is dense. There are many possibilities.
It wasn't always easy to follow these roads, and I can think of three funny incidents from these first three days:
We were on a narrow road with a fair bit of bus traffic. We noticed lighter traffic. Suddenly the road ended, and we looked across 100m of water with no bridge. Thinking we had missed a turn, we backtracked and quickly came to the spot where the buses turn around. Locals directed us back to the water and down a sandy single track where we loaded onto an oversized canoe with a motorcyclist and another bicyclist. Two men poled the craft across, and soon we were on our way again.
Further north on a similar narrow road we somehow managed to miss the main fork. The road continued to narrow and narrow until we were on a three-foot wide dirt track between two walls. Still we continued and cycled right into someone's yard! All found it amusing.</li?
In another section we had been warned that the coastal road was a bit broken in places and we'd have to push the bike so we weren't surprised to come upon a sandy single track. It was surprising to come upon a mahout on his elephant traveling in the opposite direction on this track. It was very sandy off the track and thinking the elephant would have an easier time of it than we would I kept on the track. The mahout hollered at us, and we were quite close before we ducked out of the way!
Cardamom Hills
After three days of riding to Alappuzha we were ready to try anything besides the Kerala coastal strip so we headed east into the hills. In less than 10km we came to the most peaceful, beautiful riding that we'd seen up to that point. Of course it all wasn't like that, but we had made a good choice.
We rode for three days to get to the Kumily/Thekkadi/Periyar tourist area and two more to get to more beautiful, more touristy, and higher Munnar. We climbed a lot on four of those days, but the roads were well-graded and simply by luck rather than any planning we only had a couple climbs that lasted more than 15km. On the other hand after climbing out of Munnar, we descended about 70km down to Kurichikottai. That would have been a brutal climb.
Through the hills and mountains we pedaled in misty, forested areas where all we could hear was the sounds of monkeys and birds. I thought of Jack Zuzack and the sounds he recorded on his 'round the world trip. We also rode through cardamom (these are the Cardamom Hills after all), rubber, tea, coffee, pepper, jackfruit, and coconut. The tea plantations were particularly beautiful as they seem to glow a translucent green.
The Tamil Nadu plains
Along the road from Munnar we met David who invited us to stay with his family in Kurichikottai, our first night in Tamil Nadu. David's from Kerala but came to Tamil Nadu to help the locals with basic health care and sanitation. He explained that most people don't have toilets in their houses in Tamil Nadu and we'd see many people using the side of the roads as a toilet in the morning. We spent the next two weeks riding in Tamil Nadu and indeed that's one thing I'll remember from our early morning riding there.
In spite of that, the riding in Tamil Nadu was more enjoyable than coastal Kerala. There were lots of wide-open spaces, beautiful agriculture areas, good roads, light traffic, compact cities. Also the weather was more comfortable since it was drier than Kerala. (Overall the weather on the whole trip was good. We never wanted a/c at night. Most of the day was warm, but it felt pretty hot from 1-4pm. We'd try not to be riding then.)
We visited a number of temple towns in Tamil Nadu: Palani, Madurai, Sivakasi, Tirunelveli, Tiruchchendur, Kanniyakumari. These places are on the Hindu pilgrimage circuit and except for Sivakasi and Tirunelveli were crowded with pilgrims.
Any place that's popular for Indians to visit is absolutely chaotic on the weekends. We experienced this in Munnar and Kanniyakumari, both places that we stayed a few days. Once the weekend crowds went home, we enjoyed the relative tranquility of these towns.
Sivakasi is famous for being a production center for fireworks. We ended up visiting the city because we met Jack Reed on the grounds of the Ghandi Museum in Madurai. He invited us to Sivakasi. Jack's friend, Sami, managed to arrange a tour of a cracker factory for the four of us. Seeing the workers and the working conditions was the most moving experience of the trip. The "factories" - though there's nothing automated about them - are scattered out on the hot plain away from the city and away from each other. The factory we visited consisted of about 20 small (4mx4mx4m), widely-spaced buildings. Each building has at least four doors which are always opened during work hours. There's no electricity. The design - good ventilation, many escape routes, widely-spaced buildings - is to prevent accidents. The workers are paid by the piece and earn about $3/day for this boring, repetitive, dangerous work. They're in constant contact with the chemicals in the fireworks - though some jobs looked much worse than others - and must fully wash before leaving the premises (to keep the unhealthy, volatile chemicals out of their homes). It was the closest thing I've seen to a sweat shop. Two women asked me to take them to my home, the only time that happened during this trip. That said, the workers appeared to genuinely return our smiles, and I'm afraid they're paid more than the average wage in India, perhaps even double (?).
The culinary journey
During our first trip to India, we spent two months in the north - Rajastan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal - and loved the food. Then we spent a month in the Andaman Islands where there is mostly South Indian food. We were introduced to a whole new Indian cuisine, and we loved it! Indeed both of us prefer South Indian food to North Indian. The South Indian food is lighter, less oily, and less rich. It's food that can be eaten every day - not like what's served at the Indian restaurants in Boulder.
For breakfast we'd order a bread or rice dish - often appam in Kerala, idli or pongal in Tamil Nadu. Both states had dosa, puri, porotha, puttu, ottappam as well. The breads are served with curries and chutneys, and in fancier restaurants different breads were served with different sides. Egg curry was a popular breakfast option in Kerala, and many places would offer omelets as well. All except the most basic restaurants would offer tea (chai) and coffee. There wasn't much difference between dinner and breakfast unless we'd go to a fancier restaurant and order specific made-to-order curries.
Lunch is an all-you-can-eat affair based on rice. In Tamil Nadu banana leafs are used as plates, but I don't think we saw that a single time in Kerala. Silverware is not used. The rice comes with a number of vegetable sides, pickled stuff, papadam, and a pudding for dessert. Waiters come by with dal, sambar, and curd to pour over the rice, and they're constantly dumping more vegetables and rices onto your plate. The food was continually tasty. The one complaint would be that it was somewhat repetitive.
Kovalam and Mumbai
20km before completing our loop in Thiruvananthapuram we spent a couple days at the beach resort of Kovalam. I was impressed. The beaches were beautiful and clean with very mellow waves that were easy and fun to bodysurf. The main beach (Lighthouse) is tastefully developed, and there's still fisherman pulling in their catch. I can see why Europeans fly to India just to visit Kovalam.
On our flight home we took advantage of a 10 hour layover in Mumbai to make a quick dash into the city. We went straight to the Gateway of India and barely caught it in the last light of the day. I had hoped to do a little walking tour, but it's hard to appreciate the architecture in the dark. The most memorable part of this excursion will be the incredibly crowded train coming back from Churchgate to Andheri at 10 on a Saturday night. The doors to the trains don't close, and folks hang out the sides. People carry their bags above their heads because there's no room between the packed bodies. There isn't even enough room for everyone's feet on the floor. People stood on my feet, and I stood on other feet. At the stations it's required to jump off while the train is moving to avoid being pushed back on by the mass attemping to squeeze on. Not being experienced jumping off moving trains, Julie and I were a bit nervous when our stop was approaching. I followed the example of the person in front of me, and a helpful passenger gave Julie an arm to help her balance as she stumbled onto the platform. In spite of the chaos everyone was helpful, good-natured, and polite. Farewell, India.
The route: Thiruvananthapuram, Varkala, Karunagappally, Alappuzha, Kanjirappally, Peerumade, Thekkadi, Nedumkandam, Munnar, Kurichikottai, Palani, Kodaikanal Road, Madurai, Sivakasi, Surandai, Tirunelveli, Tiruchchendur, Kanniyakumari, Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram.
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julie & i cracked into the container of christmas pudding she gifted me months ago. We poured ignited rum on top....because it's raining here and it was the right thing to do.
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Found @ a 7-11 in Suzumenomiya, Utsunomiya, Japan.
First alerted to these by an alert friend in Hokkaido.
Just tried this tonight and... I'll pass. VERY sweet. Tastes just like a lot of other overly sweet KitKats with a different wrapper (not to mention the highly unnatural yellow color of the chocolate).
This is my Mammaw Barrett's from-scratch banana pudding recipe. It was one of my absolutely favorite things to eat at her house when I was a child, and it eventually turned into a running joke that she had to find time to make one every time I was coming to her house or I would be disappointed. I was so spoiled by her pudding at such a young age that as an adult I can barely choke down well-meaning attempts that save time with store-bought pudding mix or whipped cream... they'd be delicious if they were all you'd ever had, but once you've visited tastebud heaven it's hard to settle for less.
In fact, one of my very first not-actually-dating-yet dates with my future wife was when she came over to my apartment in college to learn this recipe for a "demonstration speech" in her communications class. She took the finished pudding and a bunch of spoons to class as one of her "visual aids" and got an A... and I got a second date.
This banana pudding will change your life.
INGREDIENTS
Pudding
• 1/3 c all-purpose flour
• 1/2 c sugar
• 2 c milk
• 2 to 3 egg yolks
• 1 Tbsp margarine
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 box Nilla wafers
• 4 to 5 ripe bananas
Meringue
• 2 to 3 egg whites
• 1 dash salt
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• 3 Tbsp sugar
INSTRUCTIONS
Pudding
1. Mix flour and sugar well
2. Heat milk in double boiler until scalded
3. Add dry mixture to milk and stir until beginning to thicken
4. Beat egg yolks and add to mixture
5. Stir while heating until thick as desired
6. Add margarine and vanilla and stir
7. Allow to cool (Can place pot in cold water to cool quickly)
8. Line bottom of Pyrex bowl with layer of wafers
9. Add layer of banana slices
10. Add layer of 1/3 pudding
11. Repeat all three layers two more times
Meringue
1. Mix egg whites with dash of salt until beginning to form peaks
2. Add vanilla and sugar and continue mixing until forming stiff peaks
3. Spread over pudding and heat in oven (set at broil/400°) until meringue begins to tan but before it browns (Watch closely - takes less than a minute)
NOTES
Serve warm or refrigerated
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i think this is my first time using a printed fabric for the background and i'm really happy with it. i was worried the patterns might be distracting but i find it otherwise.
the styling of the individual puddings are inspired from bea's broiche/bread pudding. in some photos of the series you can see the layers of the paper cups that i used because the custard was leaking out!
p.s. yay! i've finished assessment!
Made yorkshire pudding to go with the fried chicken I made tonight. I don’t care what the purists say; I’m a trendsetter.
Read about this bread pudding and get the recipe on my blog.
This pumpkin bread pudding was paired with Alvear Solera 1927 Pedro Ximenes.
Did you know that Pudding Street Bridge was built in 1915 as logging railroad trestle?
Taken with a Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm/2.8 on Ilford Delta400 and developed in Suersinn HCDnew
My daughter went at it with her pudding - this turned into a whole incident with a naked little girl running through the sprinklers before getting hosed off.
Unfortunately - she gets the eytbrow thing from me.
My daughter went at it with her pudding - this turned into a whole incident with a naked little girl running through the sprinklers before getting hosed off.
The traditional British Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce and a sprig of holy.
Designed completely by me ;)
Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed.
I've had bread & butter pudding the first time a couple weeks ago (bought in) and must admit I underestimated it. I am hooked and made my very first one... (recipe)
thought, needed more custard mixture but never mind, next time.
I opened a tin of rice pudding after I'd eaten a salad. I put some raisins in it and heated it in the microwave oven. It was jolly good, I haven't had that for several years.
The book is "Beauty in Photography" by Robert Adams.
Lynn bought some Durian pudding from a local Asian market. I am fascinated with Durian, a spiky fruit that grows in Malaysia and elsewhere, and which apparently smells, when ripe, like a rotting corpse. However, each of the custard-like pods inside the hard-to-open fruit apparently taste both exceedingly delicious, and have a unique taste. This pudding is about 5% durian juice, 16 percent coconut.