May 30, 2011 · 6:50 pm
Everyone that I know loves the Original Banana Pudding recipe that’s posted on the side of most Nabisco vanilla wafer boxes and that’s the one that I usually make. It is the one that I used in my classroom for our last lab of the year, but with a deterrents thrown our way I was not sure that we could pull it off. With a fire drill and advisement making the class almost too short to have anything but a glass of milk with vanilla wafers and sliced bananas I had to come up with something or just ditch the lab altogether. At the last-minute I decided to try speeding up the custard by using the microwave. It worked perfectly for me —TWICE! Seven minutes is all it took and that really beats standing over a double boiler for about thirty minutes. Which meant that my classes could get their Banana Pudding in the oven in less than an hour and still have time to enjoy it in the classroom.
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November 8, 2010 · 6:55 am
In my recipe file are recipes that I used in my food’s classes in high school and college as well as some that I have asked for from students. I found this recipe in that file. I have never made it. I did make it out of necessity last week. I hate looking through all the recipes that are out there on the internet. There is something about the sheer numbers of recipes that just won’t let my brain function properly. I have this same problem when I am shopping. I don’t do well at sales where you have to go through rack after rack of clothes. Big warehouse shopping is not my thing either. The fewer choices I have the better I am at making a choice. Just try googling meringue cookies and see what you get! It is a massive number of recipes, so after hours of trying to choose what I thought was the best one I gave up! And I’m glad I did because this one is good! Meringue can be tricky to make. For the novice cook inexperience can lead to frustration. After my students had such a hard time making their meringue a week ago I set out to try to make it easier to understand. I also wrote a guest post for Dinner and Dreams entitled “How to Make Meringue for Puddings and Pies“. Check it out for the low down on meringue. Continue reading →
October 31, 2010 · 7:01 pm
Knowing how to make basic pudding can open many other doors. What about coconut cream pie? Or a tart lemon meringue pie? Does chocolate cream pie make your mouth water? All of these follow that same basic steps so when you master just plain vanilla pudding all the other are just a “piece of pie”.
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The Teacher Cooks 