MEET THE DILs
Jessica Coulter
Jessica lives in New York City with her Husband and Dog. When she isn't writing for this here blog, she's a copywriter at an ad agency in Manhattan.
3000 MILES AWAY...
Marites Cristobal Coulter
Marites lives in Los Angeles with her husband. When she's not dabbling as a self-proclaimed domestic wannabe, she's working in PR.
- BEVERAGES
- BREADS
- BREAKFAST/BRUNCH
- DESSERTS
- FRUIT
MEET THE MIL
Pat Tippett
MIL is a chef and food stylist in Portland, OR. For many years she owned Flaming Carrot Catering, pdx's favorite eco-conscience catering company. She takes her passion for art, travel and cuisine back to the kitchen and studio and delicious things happen.
She's currently focusing her talents on food styling and on-site chef services for film scenes and group gatherings (hey tweens - she did the food styling on the twilight movie!). Oh, and writes MIL Missions for this little blog.
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3000 miles 'til dinner. |
♥WHEN YOUR MIL (mother-in-law) IS A CHEF, YOU EITHER GET NERVOUS OR GET COOKING.♥
----------------------------------------------- Two busy DILs living on two different coasts getting long-distance cooking lessons from their MIL. |
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recipe
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notes Rich Chocolate Pudding. (jessica’s attempt)Original MIL Mission #39: Rich Chocolate Pudding
I set out to make this rich chocolate pudding on a night we had company over. I was running behind on dinner, so I didn’t get to making dessert until, oh, about the exact second our company arrived. Here are my ingredients, frantically thrown on the counter for a photo opp. Hurry, ingredients, become pudding!
♥HOW I MADE IT.♥
I got my sugar, salt and cornstarch going in the pot, whisking and smiling as the company was walking in the front door. Then I added the milk and egg yolks, measuring and chatting and hoping that I measured correctly while still chatting. Measuring and chatting is hard.
Husband poured some wine and took our friends into the living room so that I could chop up the impossible-to-break-by-hand chocolate like a crazy person with a giant butcher knife in between sips of wine.
If anyone had walked into the kitchen, it would have been like walking into a taping of “Cooking with Kathy” from the Kathy comics.
Finally, I combined all the butter, chocolate and vanilla goodness into my pudding base, took it through a mesh strainer and stuck it in the fridge so I could go carry on with some normal chatting in the living room.
♥MIL MISSION #39: ACCOMPLISHED.♥
Isn’t it pretty?
Ha ha, just kidding. I actually did spoon it into some tiny individual bowls for all to enjoy later that night. But didn’t manage to snap any photos. ACK!
But a few nights later…
I had all the time in the world, so I calmly made the whipped cream.
And voila. So civilized.
Now that’s a proper snack pack cup ‘O puddin’.
♥PLATE IT, ATE IT, GRADED IT.♥
scale: 0 (not at all) to 5 (very)
Cupboard to table time: 15 min. (plus cooling time because I like cold pudding)
Difficulty: 0
Deliciousness: 4 (It was a really rich, majorly chocolate-y pudding. You can only eat so much of it on it’s own and I can see that it would work even better in pie form.)
Impressed Husband factor: 3 (Next time I’ll put it in pie form like Marites did).
Leftover-friendly: Yes! Snack pack attack!
(posted by jessica)
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