Tuesday, November 2, 2010

CHOCOLATE PUDDING RECIPE ANYONE? :-)

So we were invited over to a couples house from our church here in Connecticut to have dinner and play games. We had a great time chatting, admiring their adorable little girl, eating a wonderful dinner, and I loved how the girls beat the boys in the game!!!  Go Jen!!  But, the CATASTROPHE of the night was my chocolate pudding....So here is the story....
We will first just blame this on Seth because he wanted me to bring the ingredients over for me to make them my pudding for dessert...he loves the pudding... usually haha!  I was a little leary b/c sometimes the pudding recipe can be temperamental...aka... chunky...haha! But I gave it a try, and it was turning out okay until I put the egg whites in the pudding instead of the egg yolks (error #1)...thought it might still turn out. But to finish it off the last ingredient is vanilla, BUT I packed lemon extract on accident (the bottles look the same...come on!) so yes we did have lemon flavored chocolate pudding! Sick Nasty....or so we thought....Why I tried again I will never understand, I mean give it up Brooke you lamed out in front of your new friends...let it go. But, I couldn't I knew that I could make a freakin good batch of chocolate pudding and I wanted to redeem myself....so round two me vs. pudding.  All was going well.....until the chunks started forming....I stirred like a wild women...but the chunks would not disappear (now I am sweating and embarrassed haha) I start to call my husband back for reenforcement "Seth...this isn't looking too good"  Of course, he was supportive until he saw the mess....haha!  No hope, yes we got a rich flavor of chunky chocolate....and what treasure did Seth find in his pudding???? Yes a boiled egg yolk...round yellow hard boiled yolk...it cooked before it could get stirred in...that was the icing. And then the sweet people tried to eat around the chunks.....and then they tried to tell me that their stove gets really hot....and they always use a lower setting. Thanks Jeremy!  But overall we bonded and made memories....and you all know I will do anything for a good memory!!! Sorry Jen and Jeremy! I promise you will get a good dessert out of me before we head back to the big M-O!!!  Of course, the desserts always turn out good when we go over to the Miller's house....Geoff and Jamie count yourself as lucky! After this story you might just give me the plate...instead of hold it hostage for another apple pie...haha! Thanks Frontline friends! 

2 comments:

  1. Brooke,
    I LOL at/with you;) I have to confess I have not done this with pudding BUT I did manage to make a cheesecake with a whole egg yolk baked in the middle of it. Chuck Lambert was the one who found it when he bit into it!! Priceless!!! HUMBLING!!
    Keep it up sister!
    Love Ya!
    Steph

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  2. Stephanie, You have given me hope....I am sure though that your cheesecake still tasted incredibly delicious b/c you are such a freakin good cook!! :) Thanks for the support sister! Yes Very HUMBLING (I get humbled often in the kitchen) haha

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