I can be a lazy cook. I am not however a lazy eater. I often have very lofty aspirations about what I want to eat, it is just getting there that can seem a bit daunting. But I have found that from laziness often comes resourcefulness, or pudding, as it was this time.
Pudding is not something that is in my file under often-rotated recipes. I generally prefer something I can sink my fork into for dessert, and well, pudding is the stuff which won’t even hold your spoon straight. But when it is a snowy Sunday, with the wind whipping around so quickly the flakes do not fall softly to the ground but briskly fly at you, perpendicular to the sidewalk, in a pinch, pudding will have to do.
Making pudding from scratch is just about as simple as making it from the box. In [...]

Do you remember eating grapefruit as the starter at a savory dinner party? I do. It must have been an early 80’s things to do. Or maybe it was a late 70’s thing, and my mom was simply holding on to a remnant of the past (sorry, mom!). Anyhow, I loved it. It seemed so grown-up and glamorous, to eat a grapefruit instead of a standard old green salad in preparation for the rest of the meal.
To my young palate eating a piece of fruit for the first course was equivalent to the excitement that I felt when a small dish of sorbet was set down in front of me as a palate cleanser during my first dinner at French restaurant. Ice cream! In the middle of my meal? I could get used to this whole fine dining thing! Well, it’s [...]