Puddings!

[hecate105]

Homemade daal soup or Tom yang soup - I just can't choose between them.
Chicken fajitas, with all the trimmings, fresh hot chillies, lime salsa, guacamole, sour cream, grated cheese.
Crème brulee flavoured with cardamom.
Just realised that all my choices are from other countries! I do England a dis-service - we are known for our terrible cooking, but really - we are good at some things... Roast dinner or fish and chips?? and good old sherry trifle...

 

[plum]

Homemade daal soup or Tom yang soup - I just can't choose between them.
Chicken fajitas, with all the trimmings, fresh hot chillies, lime salsa, guacamole, sour cream, grated cheese.
Crème brulee flavoured with cardamom.
Just realised that all my choices are from other countries! I do England a dis-service - we are known for our terrible cooking, but really - we are good at some things... Roast dinner or fish and chips?? and good old sherry trifle...

Jo, it is an undeserved reputation. We have many classics and are generally true blue foodies. I love how readily we embrace the cuisine of other cultures, more fab food for us!

 

[plum]

Ah Becca, I accidentally deleted my response to you. Bless you for indulging my temptations. Food and friendship are natural bedfellows. Hugs my dear.

 

[Gigalos]

Oh god, Plum, puddings!!! My favourite colour is yellow and that is all thanks to a great pudding my mother used to make when I was little. Custard pudding with sugar finger cookies. That last thing is a Dutch thing I guess and I can't find a better picture than this one.

The one my mother used to make looked a little bit like this.

great memories, maybe she will make me one when I ask her nicely....

 

[plum]

I remember those sweet finger cookies! Not seen them in years and years though. Any pudding with custard is the best.

 

[Forest]

What about sticky toffee pudding?A modern classic. Slightly dense, dark sponge dotted with intense little nuggets of soft dates all marooned in a silky pool of hot butterscotch/toffee sauce. And never,ever go easy on the sauce for me. Nothing kills this pudding experience faster than a miserly dribble of sauce. Ladle it on I say and let tomorrow go hang. Ice cream is optional but if it's there it has to be vanilla; you can't gild a lily.

Oh. My. Goodness... That sounds SO GOOOD! I'm about ready to take a quick dash across the pond just so I can find out what that tastes like.

I am all about the sauce, too. Butterscotch ice cream sundaes are one of my favorites, so this sounds divine.

MontanaMum, thanks for clarifying.
Have you ever added chunks of chocolate to your bread and butter pudding? So indulgent and so good.

Yum! I've never tried that, but it sounds divine! I never used to like bread pudding, but they had it at the dining room at the place I used to work. I used to just sit there during lunch time, enjoying the peace, a book, the view, or a friend and relax during lunch time. Good memories....

 

[Becca]

OK, now that us Americans have embarrassed ourselves over our "puddings" I am VERY curious to know what constitutes a pudding in the UK, because it a) is clearly not at all what we have here, and b) sounds SO SO SO SO GOOD. Like, mouthwatering, shamelessly drool-dripping-ly good...

 

[Becca]

(I should clarify -- "puddings" refer to something rather exact here in the US, with the exception of bread pudding, but even that has the modifier "bread" before it. It's clear that this is not the case in the UK...either that or my reading comprehension skills are just dead when I'm not reading for school )

 

[Eric "Herbie" Watson]

This is southern hospitality

 

[plum]

OK, now that us Americans have embarrassed ourselves over our "puddings" I am VERY curious to know what constitutes a pudding in the UK, because it a) is clearly not at all what we have here, and b) sounds SO SO SO SO GOOD. Like, mouthwatering, shamelessly drool-dripping-ly good...

Becca, puddings are warm, indulgent, saucy and rich with nostalgia. A little online syntopic reading for you (actually it's a food fest but there is some explanation of our 'Great British' love affair with puddings).

http://www.traditionalenglishpuddings.co.uk/
http://www.greatbritishpuddings.com/
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/articles/british-puddings

And now I must away, for I am very hungry.

 

[hecate105]

I don't know about chunks of chocolate Plum - but yesterday I made a bread & butter pud with raisins that had been soaked in rum for an hour - LUSH!

 

[hecate105]

plum, so true about our classics. We did a 4 month cycle tour of Europe (in which any weight I thought i'd lose was put straight back on because the food and wine was sooo lovely!) On returning to the UK we were desperate for (in order of what we ate!) fish and chips and ale, a full English breakfast and a 'proper' mug of tea, a sublime Cornish pasty, a roast dinner, a ploughman's with cheddar and - crumpets! The cream of British cuisine (that reminds me - Devonshire cream tea.....)

 

[Gigalos]

and let us not forget the famous plum pudding...

 

[plum]

and let us not forget the famous plum pudding...

I love you.

 

[plum]

I don't know about chunks of chocolate Plum - but yesterday I made a bread & butter pud with raisins that had been soaked in rum for an hour - LUSH!

Chocolate vs. Booze
Hmm, tough call. Can I have both and feel icky after?

 

[plum]

I'm currently passing through a crumpets for breakfast phase so that flies. Full English breakfast is goddam beautiful. And yes, why is it impossible to enjoy a decent mug of tea when abroad? I spent a month in Spain trying to fathom this. I had PG Tips (Spar shops invade the world), real milk, bottled water...no combination worked. I was gagging for a brew when I got home. Still, the absurdly generous glasses of wine made up for it. Every hour is happy hour!
Steak and chips here tonight with apple pie for pudding.

 

[hecate105]

It's weird about the tea innit? I take teabags - but it never tastes the same. Still wading thru the rum n raisin bread pudding...