Thread: Pudding

Angel Delight tomorrow!!

^^^ Maybe a one night stand

The dog turned his nose up at his portion of semolina

Would you divorce me for eating these in bed, Mendy

They sound way better that actual hot cross buns. Were they?

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

They sound way better that actual hot cross buns.

Fuck I hate those.

Me too... I hate currents.

And eating them in bed would be a red line for me.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

First time I've had this since enjoying it at Primary school

I have not had semolina since I was at school either. One for the list.

Nothing could be fina than a bowl of semolina... (no it does not rhyme with Tina)

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

but surely you just bypass that and go straight for the rice pudding?

By coincidence you should mention.... I also had not had rice pudding since I was a kid either till I spotted this in Coles.

Cold straight from the tin is the bollix

The tin looks a bit rusty there, and seeing as Coles was established in April 1914, and the bearing of a rather dated looking design, 'Rice Cream' label, lack of a ring-pull and the suggestion that 1 can should serve 2, that may just be the last of the original stock finally cleared.

Still good after 108 years?

Is that as far as the spoon would sink?

Warm chocolate cake and custard, outstanding!

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Warm chocolate cake and custard, outstanding!

If you told it about Birds custard powder Shutree, then it wouldn't have to bother with laying an egg.

I think that one of the great things about the UK is that, along with abundant pies, you can buy a ready-made trifle in any supermarket. Cheap as chips too, and if you keep a spoon in the car you can eat it on the way home as well.

Not so in Isaan of course, you have to make it yourself. So, yesterday was homemade trifle with the daughter.



As usual in this bladdy place nothing was simple. I discovered that ants had broken into the hermetically sealed sponge finger packet of the trifle kit, so into the chicken's bowl they went.



So first up... cup cakes.



I prepared the strawberry jelly while the cup cakes were baking.



Then broke a few up to replace the rotten sponge fingers.



The broken cup cakes were nicely covered by the jelly and this went into the fridge to cool and set.



Wasting no time, I made the custard while the jelly was setting. The instructions said to cover the custard with cling film to prevent a skin forming while cooling.



Once cool, the custard layer was duly applied to the jelly/spongecake layer.



There... and now for the topping. The instructions said to whip until 'peaks' form in the mixture.



But after around 10 minutes I could see that peaks were just never going to form. I think this was maybe due to the extreme heat in our kitchen. The weather is unbearably hot just now. We poured the slightly runny topping over the custard layer.



And voila! The multi-coloured layers are shown off to best effect with the new glass trifle bowl.



But of course, the proof of any pudding is in the eating.

Plated up...



Hang on... here's Dan the amazing 'trifle' sniffing dog, having sneaked in through the back door. She knows a good trifle when she smells one!



And the money shot!



How can you spoil a dog who's nearly sixteen...

Good move with the cup cakes instead of the fingers. I think the last time I made a trifle, I used tiramisu fingers.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Wasting no time, I made the custard while the jelly was setting.

Did you need to draft in any platypuses?

Is that trifle bowl a trophy from your recent travels? My family always used a cut glass trifle bowl and my parents later gave it to me, so that is what my children grew up with. Somehow it ended up with my ex after the divorce, it is one of the small things that still rankles. At least it should end up with one of my children eventually.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I love the lengths you go to to ensure Mini Mendip doesn't miss out on an English education, right down to the lumpy custard. Proper job.

^ It was bad lighting Mike... the custard was good!

^^ Shutree, your luck could be in. That trifle bowl was a recent purchase... on offer at Do Home for 160 Baht. I'm already wishing I bought two.

I know that you're not as Cosmopolitan as I, but do you have a Do Home up your way? Get yerself down there and put those rankles to bed.

Apart from the occasional fruit pie or crumble with custard, or maybe a chocolate sponge cake with custard, or of course a Makro chocolate lava cake with ice cream, or maybe an occasional cheesecake, or my mum's pineapple upside down cake with custard, and a few other favourites, I'm not really into puddings.

Until I discovered how to make trifle of course.

But what to do with a surplus of mangoes?

It was one of my very favourites last night... mango with sticky rice and coconut sauce.





This stuff is just great.

V nice.

^ I can identify a trifle but what's the other one?

^that is a used fleshlight

Eewww... I wonder what he used it for?

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^that is a used fleshlight

That was a much enjoyed sticky toffee eclair

Sustenance I think Luigi called it before a day of trudging around England's biggest zoo.

See if you can guess the animals...









Time for another trifle

^ Yes, very good.

But why were you trying to feed a giraffe with a dead stick?