Tapioca pudding is an attractive dessert. Just look at it. Voluptuous little pearls of tapioca. Creamy pudding. Specks of vanilla bean. Juicy macerated strawberries ooze south filling every open crevice. It is downright lascivious. Slap me with a felony, if you must, but I just cannot stop oggling…or eating…or spoon licking. This is a dessert made for the […]
Whole, ground, toasted, added, infused. I've run the spice gamut up, down, sideways, slantways and squareways. I'll admit, I'm a little bit of a spice late bloomer. Up until a couple years ago, my spice cabinet only consisted of cinnamon and whatever one needed to make Texas chili. But now, the inventory list of my […]
It just happened to come up in conversation. As casual as discussing the weather or a clichéd complaint about work, this bread was passively mentioned by a fellow expat over an afternoon coffee and responsibility avoidance. Well not this exact bread, but the general idea of peanut butter banana bread. Let's call it the junior to […]
I am extremely fond of crusts. The char on a perfectly grilled steak. The edges of a meatloaf. The perimeter of a wood-fired pizza. The crunchy topping on bubbly mac and cheese. Stripping a quiche of its casing is not out of the question. And let us not forget the crust of a hot Parisienne […]