Marie Cookpad

     Although I am rationing flour and sugar, I did want to make us something sweet for a weekend treat.  Usually at the weekend I like to have a dessert of some kind.  This Diner Style Lemon Pudding fits the bill perfectly.    Not only does it not use any flour, but it also uses a minimum of sugar.  Plus I had a lemon which needed using up and I'll be darned if I waste anything now.  I cooked pasta today that was 10 years past its use-by date and it was perfectly fine, believe it or not, and yes that was very brave of me.  It smelt alright and I cooked a bit and it tasted fine, so I used it.  And I lived to tell the tale.   This recipe comes from a cookery book I have had since 2007, enitled The American Diner Cookbook, by Elizabeth MdKeon and Linda Everett.  It was originally published in 1962 and is filled to overflowing with an abundance of tasty sounding recipes. There are no photos in the book, bar fascinating photos...

  Growing up it was a real treat if my mom bought a box of Pudding Cake mix.  It was like magic. Everything was beaten together, spread in a pan and like magic, it baked a cake with a lush thick sauce on the bottom.   It came in a few different flavours. We weren't picky. We'd eat them all.  Dessert wasn't something we had very often when I was growing up. We might have a scoop of ice cream after supper on Friday night, and maybe on Sundays we would have ice cream with some tinned fruit on top, or our favourite . . . strawberry jam spooned over.    Other than that we got cake on our birthday (and ice cream), dessert at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter and when we had company for dinner, which wasn't very often.   Occasionally though, mom would let us have the treat of something like a pudding cake on Saturday night.  She had been overweight as a child and so was very careful about what we ate.   Here in the UK another name for dessert is Pu...

  Rice pudding is a dessert that we are awfully fond of in this house. In fact I would have to say that it is one of Todd's favourite desserts of all time.   We are also really fond of Sticky Toffee Pudding, and who isn't  . . .  with its moist date cake and lush toffee sauce!  Its just wow.   The shop where we buy most of our groceries  puts out a little magazine each month filled with content particular to whatever  month it might be.  Its free.   I always pick it up and bring it home to have a look through.  Sometimes I see recipes I would like to try, sometimes I don't.   In the October issue there was a recipe for Sticky Toffee Rice Pudding.  It immediately caught my attention!   I knew that Todd would really enjoy it. He's always asking me to make him rice pudding . . .   Today was the day. There is no sugar in the rice pudding itself. It relies on the sweetness from chopped dates to flavour it, and some va...