National Chocolate Pudding Day, Pudding History & Best Chocolate Pudding Recipe

[1] From-scratch chocolate pudding; the recipe is below (photo © Bonchan | iStock Photo). [2] You can get creative with the serving dish, as well as with garnishes that turn everyday chocolate pudding into a fancy dessert (photo © Taryn Eliott | Pexels). [3] You can garnish chocolate pudding to make it as festive as…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Things To Do With Overripe Bananas

Dolce de bananas becomes a banana toffee pie. Here’s the recipe. Photo courtesy OurBestBites.com.   We went overboard at Trader Joe’s, buying too many bananas with the thought that we’d eat one or two each day. You can guess the outcome: a lot of overripe bananas. So we headed to our mental archive of delicious…
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RECIPE: Crème Pâtissière, Pastry Cream

A cream puff stuffed with crème pâtissière, pastry cream. Photo by Stu Spivak | Wikimedia.   When we published an earlier tip for a brambleberry tart, we went to link to a recipe for crème pâtissière—pastry cream—and discovered we hadn’t published one. Zut alors! So here we remedy the situation, and also explain some of…
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