I was a bit confused, about how to start… whether to start with “beginning of another year” or “end of one more year”. Well, it’s always nice to hear that something new is beginning, so I’ll go with that. Beginning of another year is here! I always feel excited when something new is taking place, a bit nervous too, but more excited to see…
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4.7 14 Chinese doufu hua (tofu hua or taufu fa) or sweet tofu pudding recipe. Learn the step-by-step for making sweet tofu pudding at home. Prep time: Cook time: Total Time: Ingredients: 6 cups homemade soy milk 2 teaspoons gypsum 2 teaspoons cornstarch or potato starch 1/3 cup water Ginger Syrup: One 2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and…
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Vegan, Gluten Free and Sugar Free When I was young my sister and I went through a rice pudding phase. A rice pudding phase so intense that for a while afterwards, every time someone mentioned eating rice pudding I thought back on that experience as the dark days. I can now think of that time quite fondly, when I would eat one or two packets…
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Learn how to make this rich, creamy, yet deceptively simple dessert. Rice pudding is a rich and creamy dessert with a homey, old-fashioned flavor. It is simply made with rice, milk, and sugar, with a beaten egg sometimes stirred in at the end of cooking to add extra richness. Rice pudding can be flavored in any number of ways, is a snap to…
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Given the Indian roots, I decided to make a pudding that had echoed a bit of mango lassi but gelled with agar agar, a seaweed based gelatinizing agent that’s super popular in East and Southeast Asia. Agar agar is vegetarian and will set liquids at room temperature. (Very cool and convenient.) The telephone brand of powdered agar agar is stocked…
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Chia pudding is weird and awesome. I’ll come back to that. Oddly enough, I was actually introduced to chia seeds by my roommate a few years ago. One Saturday afternoon, he insisted that we go to Whole Foods to get some chia because his bestie had been eating it and dropping the lbs “without even trying!!” Needless to say, pre-Dude Diet Logan…
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By Freya Bellin It is difficult to be patient with the aroma of coconut milk slowly simmering in the oven, but patience is both required and rewarded by this rice pudding. I love the idea of using brown rice in this recipe. It’s healthier, for one, and adds a nuttiness and texture that you can’t get from white rice. The coconut milk makes…
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall s baked chicken curry recipe: This big, hearty, rich curry is very easy. Photograph: Colin Campbell for the Guardian It s funny how things shoulder their way into your larder. First they make a small, quiet space for themselves, then they take up semi-permanent residence, and finally they claim indispensable status…
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We will not bake or steam. Nor do we need one single curding agent like egg, gelatin, flour, or agar-agar… to make this custard-like dessert. Said to have originated in Southern China along the Pearl River Delta, this is called Ginger Hits Milk 薑撞奶 in our place. A funny name though, it truly describes how the pudding is prepared simply with…
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Still with me after my absence? I hope so … I also hope this simple, comfort dessert will cheer you up, which is also what I intend to do for myself. Called 燉蛋 though, which means double-boiled eggs, it does not live up to its Chinese name. Because double boiling essentially is a cooking method that takes hours, but this unpretentious dessert…
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I have been using a recipe I have tweaked, to make dairy (cows milk) free Yorkshire puddings, for a while. Because LSH can tolerate a small amount of gluten, he eats them, but my mother in law prefers to eat gluten free when at all possible, and I was making a roast lunch today, and in our house, you cannot have roast lunch without Yorkshire…
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I’ve been craving rice pudding for a long while now—the kind my yiayia used to make. I remember her standing by the stove, a big pot of rice and milk simmering in front of her, with only sugar, a cinnamon stick, and lemon peed added. The rice pudding she scooped out of that pot when she was done was perfection. Sweet, creamy perfection. And…
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Ever tried this steamed milk custard? It’s so smooth that even tofu fa (a kind of traditional Chinese dessert, aka soy milk custard) can’t beat it. It’s a perfect quick dessert after dinner. The pungent aroma of ginger makes the silky milk custard so wonderful. My family loves its simplicity and silky texture. Ginger is widely used in Chinese…
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This is, hands down, the best Banana Pudding that ever was and ever will be. So easy to put together, this oddly comforting American-style trifle achieves greatness with six simple ingredients. Creamy, fruity, light and satisfying, this is one of my very favorite and most requested desserts. I first tried this dessert at the source of it’s…
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Sago Pudding with Palm Sugar (Sago Gula Melaka) It’s back to recipes posting! Well, I hope that you guys have enjoyed my few series of posts about Japan overall — food, people, sights…. Today, I feel like it’s very suitable (because of the ‘scorching’ weather) for me to share something really special, that I like a lot since I was a kid. Sagu…
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