When it comes to chocolate pudding there are two general schools of thought, the first being cornstarch, and the second being eggs. The first version, and arguably the most classic version, uses cornstarch as a thickener. It is generally made with few ingredients: cornstarch, milk, chocolate, some sugar. But it can be fussy to thicken….
Author: Erin
I am so particular about my grocery shopping that it is a bit ridiculous. If they don’t have the brand I want or the right size of something it completely throws me off and I seem to be incapable of making a decision of what alternative to get on such short notice. Last week I…
It is suddenly close to the end of August and I am completely unsure as to how we got here. Everyone seems eager to jump into fall and apples and football and piles of leaves. And normally I would be too. Except it is still 100 degrees in Houston, a city where fall does not…
So first thing’s first. When I talk about breakfast food, it’s rare that I’m actually talking about breakfast. I don’t generally make breakfast unless it’s a special occasion (and in that case it needs to involve guests), or I can make things the night before and pull them out of the refrigerator or freezer to…
I have a new fascination with finding classic recipes for classic desserts that we all too often buy in boxed mixes which, while fine and convenient, also lacks that sense of knowing what we’re eating. Not that I dislike brownies mixes. On the contrary, I don’t particularly love most homemade brownies precisely because they don’t…