"Chocolate Pudding" news and stories

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• And for dessert, this chocolate pudding recipe confirms what everyone already knows: Nutella rules.

Between this and Deb's chocolate sorbet, I am positively dying for a chocolate dessert of some kind (what are you people doing to me!). The chocolate pudding was made by Maya at My Feasts and was part of the the Tuesdays with Dorie cooking challenge. I could go for a big old spoonful right about now!

Thanks to Maya for adding her pic to the Slashfood Flickr pool! Remember to snap some photos of the delicious dishes you cook up this weekend and add them to the group.

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Recipes from Home is shaped unlike any other cookbook I've ever known. It is a thick paperback that is tall and narrow, making it very satisfying to hold because it feels like it comes from another age. As you start to flip through it, you discover that it is filled with childhood pictures of the authors and lots of chatty anecdotes about the origins of the recipes.

The book is born from David Page and Barbara Shinn's New York City West Village restaurant that is also called Home. The way I became aware of it was that four years ago I was up in New York for a weekend with some friends. My friend Una planned a brunch at Home and sent an email out to the rest of us with details, including the link to the restaurant. Upon discovering this book, I fell into a state of instant infatuation and immediately ordered it (the recipes looked intriguing and the Foreword was written by Calvin Trillin. I figured any food he was endorsing had to be good).

And I was correct. This book is filled to bursting with really amazing food. In the summer I like to make their "Sweet Corn, Red Onion and Basil Relish." I'm a big fan of their "Sage Corn Bread." I drool over their recipe for "Chocolate Pudding" (which is available on their website, on the cookbook page, at the bottom of the recipe window). And I love the fact that there is an entire section devoted to cheese (what you can do with it, not how to make it).

I don't call this cookbook a must-have if you are trying to keep your collection carefully edited. But if you are the type (like me) who approaches cookbooks as something akin to inspirational literature, then this one would be a good book to check out.

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Sometimes I wonder how many different recipes there can be for one type of food. We post a lot of recipes here at Slashfood, and while some of the recipes are exotic and complex, some are for very basic foods that we've made and/or eaten hundreds of times over the years. Take Chocolate Pudding for example. If it's basic chocolate pudding, how many different ways are there to make it? I guess it's all in the chocolate you use.

This recipe is from The Joy of Cooking. I have to have it with whipped cream on top. I love that combo of chocolate and whipped cream you get when you sink your spoon in and have a bunch of each on your spoon and put it into your mouth.

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