Besides cousin Mark Sewell's Maine lobsters and the exposed wood-fired oven,
chef/owner Jeremy Sewell's
Lineage Restaurant in Brookline's Coolidge Corner has two claims to fame: its butterscotch pudding and its brioche dinner rolls.
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Giga Pudding is a pudding-making kit by Japanese toy company Takara Tomy that outshines all other pudding-making kits for producing a bucket-sized, 20-serving mountain of crème caramel and for spurning a theme song so catchy that it's been released as a single. Watch the video after the jump. [Warning: Inappropriate for those offended by images of cute food eating itself.]...
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Chocolate pudding from Amy's Bread in New York City. July 26 is National Chocolate Pudding Day! Celebrate this random and momentous occasion by stuffing your face with the beloved spoonable chocolate-flavored dessert. Here are some recipes to help you enjoy it at home: Homemade Chocolate Pudding Hot Chocolate Pudding Chocolate and Date Pudding Cakes...
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In honor of today being National Chocolate Pudding Day, here's a cute clip from Sesame Street, in which Ernie helps Bert make a shopping list. And guess what's on the list! But maybe not for the reason you think. Watch the video after the jump....
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What would you do if you had $240 worth of pudding just sitting in a giant pile in your room? Aside from being very confused, you could do like Thomas Lennon and Michael Ian Black did on sketch-comedy show The State and give it some sweet talkin'. And rub your butt on it. Aaawwww yeeeeaaaah. Watch the pudding lust, after the jump....
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Jenn Garbee, in the LA Times: Technically, it's just pudding. But mention the word budino to an Italian chef and eyes light up, chattering hands dance through the air and unabashed creativity is unfurled."Budino is BUDINO! Its big flavor hits your palate at once, so pure it dissolves right on your tongue," says Nicola Mastronardi, chef at Vincenti. "Nothing else is in the way — just custard and concentrated flavor." Garbee includes three budino recipes, including one for the much-heralded butterscotch budino (in photo at right) by pastry chef Dahlia Narvaez at Nancy Silverton and Mario Batali's Pizzeria Mozza, that our head honcho Ed Levine says "will bring tears to your eyes because it is so rich and creamy...
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The NYT's Mark Bittman makes a pudding promise: " You can make not only a credible but elegant and delicious chocolate or vanilla pudding in 20 minutes flat, not counting the time it takes to chill. That’s not much longer than it takes to start with a box of powdered mix, add milk and heat it." I have to admit that for some reason I've just always assumed pudding was fairly complicated to make and so had never so much as looked at a recipe for it before; Bittman is also sure to make the point that starting with quality ingredients (like with natural milk, not ultrapasteurized, and maybe purchased from a farm or farmer's market) is the best path...
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