I looked online yesterday for tapioca pudding recipes because the only ones in my cookbooks involved separating eggs and folding in beaten egg whites later, something beyond the skill of my youngest, who wanted to make the pudding. I didn’t have the box of tapioca anymore, since I tend to store stuff like that in…
Desserts
Cold and Sweet: Coffee Granita
This tastes so good you’ll be making extra coffee just to have leftovers! Basically it’s sweetened coffee with milk or half-and-half frozen. The trick is to keep stirring it while it freezes so you don’t end up with one big chunk of frozen coffee. Feel free to adjust the proportions. This was just about right…
Rhubarb Cobbler
Pie plant is the nickname for rhubarb I’m told, but we just as often make it into crisps and cobblers. A few days ago I tried a recipe from Gourmet magazine for ricotta pudding cups with rhubarb on top, but alas I’m the only one in the household willing to eat them! The cobbler I…
Apple Custard Pie
I wanted to make an apple pie tonight but didn’t feel like anything as heavy as two crusts. Yet, I didn’t want to just make a crisp or cobbler either. I thumbed through a few apple pie recipes, having some vague memory of a one crust pie I’d seen with some sort of custard. I…
Mock Apple Pie
Apple pie? Not quite. But it’s a bit different than a crisp or a cobbler and goes together in nothing flat. I’ve got 2 apple trees producing right now so I play with anything and everything apple. Apple butter is next on my list. I think I’ve got some golden and red delicious apples right…