Recipe Mondays
Every parent needs a recipe for chocolate pudding – to satisfy the cravings of mom & dad, and of course, to satisfy the chocolate cravings of the children.
I am obsessed with “finding” the perfect recipe. To eliminate the need to keep trying to find a good recipe. To have “the” recipe I will make again and again for the family. To have the children, when they are grown, come back home, and eat and enjoy those things with will flood their senses with memories and moments from a happy childhood. And, I believe that in raising children, repetition, is key. Repetition is the foundation for happy memories.
Our eldest daugther asked me for chocolate pudding, and I didn’t yet that perfect recipe in my recipe box. I rathered a recipe that did not call for only egg yolks. I like recipes that call for 1 cup of this 2 cups of that, rather than recipes that call for 1 3/4 cups this, 2/3 cup that. Silly, I’m sure, but they just make me more comfortable. It’s much easier to multi task, when you don’t need to think too much. And, for my own curiosity, I test recipes with the more rounded-off ingredients, to see if it makes a difference. I also test to see if it makes a difference using easiest mixing methods (i.e. combine all ingredients, vs. first combine this, then that, then this, then that, etc.). This chocolate pudding rocks. And, it’s soo easy.
Ingredients
2 cups milk
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (the better the chip, the better the pudding)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
dash of salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Combine all ingredients except the vanilla in a medium saucepan. Whisk somewhat constantly over medium-high heat until the mixture comes to a boil. Boil, while whisking, for 1 minute. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and divide among 6 cups, ramekins, or 1 bowl! Cool and enjoy.
