Monday, March 11, 2019

blasts from the past

From recent months, but now de retour:



From my childhood:


The tapioca pudding isn't perfect (the pearls needed to soak a bit longer, but they're still quite soft), but it's pretty close, in taste, to the pudding I ate at my best friend's grandmother's house when I was a kid.



5 comments:

John Mac said...

I'm not even a chili dog fan, but damn, that pic made me hungry for one...

Charles said...

That pudding looks like a Lovecraftian nightmare.

Kevin Kim said...

John,

Come on over!

Charles,

It does look a lot like some kind of multi-eyed beast that might burble out of your sink to have a chat about your tasty, tasty soul.

Problem 1 is the fact that I didn't let the pearls soak for a full 30 minutes, so a lot of the beads retained their original dense whiteness. That said, I did simmer the tapioca for nearly an hour, so even the still-white pearls became soft. Problem 2 is that the above photo was taken after I had put the tapioca in the fridge for at least an hour, thus giving it time to set. Most pics of tapioca pudding show it in its "served warm" form, i.e. smooth and without cracks. The pudding can be served cold or warm. I think I prefer it warm. I'm taking a bucket of it to work to fob off onto my coworkers, along with the chili and some Costco dogs.

I just saw a recipe for chocolate tapioca. Gonna have to try that with the pearls I have left.

Charles said...

"Problem 1 is the fact that I didn't let the pearls soak for a full 30 minutes, so a lot of the beads retained their original dense whiteness."

Ah, yes. I, too, often have problems with dense whiteness.

And I think that instead of fobbing the pudding off onto your coworkers, you should try lobbing it onto them. Get yourself a mini-catapult and start flinging that stuff across the office. Make sure to have a video camera going to record the screams of terror.

Kevin Kim said...

"I, too, often have problems with dense whiteness."

Check yo' privilege.

Signed,

Everyone Who Isn't White