05 Apr 2016
by Vinny Grette
in Desserts, food, health, Holiday foods, recipes
Tags: April Fool's Day, cinnamon, coconut palm sugar, fruit fool, ginger, pudding, rhubarb

What is an April Fool?
The only surprise I was treated to on April Fool’s Day was Alex Trebek, walking onto his game show set without his pants! I did, however, write this post for you on April 1st, which should entitle me to name my fruit pudding recipe April Fool. It’s a tasty British fruit “Fool,” in the traditional sense.
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10 Nov 2015
by Vinny Grette
in books, Desserts, Drinks, food, Side dishes
Tags: Fool, fruit, gooseberries, leeks, pudding, roibus, tea, war

Redwall Abbey – A child’s delight
To honor the people who gave their all in the Great Wars, I’m reposting some recipes I first brought to you in 2012. These traditional recipes were in vogue during the scarce years of the Second World War… but many probably go back much farther than that, handed down by mothers and mother’s mothers in Britain ever since they began to grow potatoes and cabbages… and gooseberries! More
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01 Apr 2014
by Vinny Grette
in Breakfast foods, Desserts, food, health, recipes
Tags: brain, chia seeds, chocolate, fiber, heart, omega-3, protein, pudding

Don’t eat your potted pet…
Remember those little Chia sculptures that blew onto the scene about 30 years ago? We’d water them and give them a little love, and they rewarded us by growing hair and fur in all the right places. They were cute but decidedly not edible. More
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26 Nov 2013
by Vinny Grette
in Desserts, food, health, recipes, science, stories
Tags: avocados, children, chocolate, fruit, mangos, mousse, omega 9 fatty acids, omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, pudding

A healthy chocolate dessert
Instead of the suspicious fats usually lurking in rich desserts from heavy cream and butter, this chocolate pudding hides a secret agent known far and wide for his success in fighting disease. His name? Detective Avocado. More
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29 Oct 2013
by Vinny Grette
in Desserts, food, health, Holiday foods, recipes, stories
Tags: brule, children, cookies, custard, eggs, family, halloween, meringue, pudding, pumpkin

Of course, the frog part was an accident!
When my little meringue ghosts collapsed after their stint in the oven into weird brown froggies on lily pads, I put it down to the stevia I subbed for more than half the sugar. It seems that for meringues to hold their height, the sugar-to-eggwhite ratio is crucial. Live and learn. More
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18 Jan 2012
by Vinny Grette
in Desserts, food, recipes, science
Tags: chemistry, children, custard, desserts, eggs, experiments, fats, pudding, sauces, sol, tasting

Custard fight – “Baked” dukes it out with “Stirred”
James Bond may have taken his martinis stirred. But in a recent egg custard duel, Stirred came in a far second-best behind Baked!
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