a sugar addict searching for balance
A few days ago, I saw a post on Facebook from Strauss Family Creamery about how their egg nog ice cream had been spotted at Whole Foods in Palo Alto. We’re only about 15 minutes south of Palo Alto so maybe it’s available at the Whole Foods here too? Maybe? Pretty please?
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I woke up this morning to a stream of twitter messages proclaiming that Gourmet is being shut down. I was still in bed. This is not the kind of news that a food lover wants to wake up to. Partly I blame my morning ritual, because if I weren’t so eager to connect first thing in the morning I would not have found out until later… after my morning tea. Instead, I was lying in bed reading my email and then catching up on twitter on my iPhone. The news was almost devastating enough to pull me out of my warm cocoon to verify the news on a real computer… almost. It was chilly this morning, I couldn’t bear the sad news and the cold so I stayed in bed wondering what this could mean for the magazine industry, the food world, and me.
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It started out innocently enough. I was struck with a chocolate craving… a creamy, comforting kind of chocolate craving. This meant pudding. Not just pudding but pudding pie complete with a graham cracker crust. Sounds delicious, right?
There I was standing in Dan’s kitchen, defenseless against the siren song of chocolate pudding pie. I had everything I needed to make chocolate pudding (though honestly this would be my first non-packaged pudding adventure). I had a few graham crackers leftover from our camping s’mores. And I had some heavy cream which is mandatory because what is chocolate pudding pie minus the whipped cream? Naked, that’s what. And we can’t have that. Okay, everything I needed was there in the kitchen. Or was it? Wait a second, there is no pie pan in Dan’s kitchen. Had the temptation been mild, the chocolate undertow weak, I may have stopped right there. If I had been patient and wise, I might have waited until I got home where I have not one but two pie pans (Note to self: take one to Dan’s house). But the pudding gods had spoken and I had no choice but to continue down this path no matter how ill-equipped I might be.
*Light bulb moment*… I will use a muffin tin and make cup-pies. You know, kind of like Chuck makes in Pushing Daisies Season 1, except mine would be even more innovative in that they’d be pudding pies… aw yeah, I am a genius! That’s right, warm yourself in the glow of my otherworldly brain powers. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time anyway.
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Recipes I’d like to try
