The Lime Pudding as Lime Curd or Crepe Filling

Last night's dessert of Lime Pudding was a quick dish, but very intense and somewhat filling. This morning I made crepes for breakfast as usual. Daughter spread a bit of the lime and banana dessert on her crepes and wow! was that good. It was pretty good on toast too. I think the intensity of flavors is too much on its own-rather like trying to eat jam straight from the jar.

I will continue to use this condensed milk, citrus and banana mix as an instant breakfast topping and crepe filling rather than as pudding. It is soooo good that way.

Quick Crepes or pancakes

• Whisk 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk
• Add 3/4 cup flour, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp baking powder and whisk in.
• (For sweeter crepes, add 1 to 2 TBP sugar, 1 tsp vanilla or a bit of cinnamon)
• (For savory crepes add 1 tsp favorite herbs.)
• Heat small frying pan on medium, run bottom of pan with butter , spoon in 1/4 cup max of batter and swirl pan until you get the thinest pancake passible. Pour out any extra back into batter bowl
• Cook for 20 seconds or until tan on bottom, then turn crepe and brown on other side for 15 seconds.
• put cooked crepes on a plate- but if you are making a lot, cahnnel your inner short-order cook:
• Flip 1st crepe on plate, butter pan, pour next crepe in pan, put filling in 1st crepe and roll up like a cigar, turn over 2nd crepe in frying pan, flip 2nd crepe on plate, butter pan, etc You'll be moving between filling the just done crepe and making a new one. This recipe makes about 10 7 " crepes and you can finish in about 6 minutes.

Stop- have a cup of coffe and a crepe and enjoy the morning!

Spaghetti and Meat Sauce for tomorrow Lime Pudding Tonight

We enjoyed the roast pork tonight with potatoes and salad. So now for tomorrow's prep. I'm making the tomato meat sauce. I make a simple one, but you can add more peppers, some mushrooms, more onions, zucchini, yellow squash. The vegys disappear into the sauce.
Root vegys like potatoes and members of the cauliflower family don't really go well in this dish. I do add diced carrots since it's a sneaky way to get them into the family.

Red Meat Sauce

• In largish pot, put in 2 TBP olive oil and heat to medium. Add 2 mashed garlic cloves, 1 minced carrot, 1/2 thinly sliced pepper, and up to 1 minced onion. Cook gently( do not brown the garlic as it will taste terrible. ) until beginning to turn color.



• Add 1 lb ground beef and cover with 1 can tomato puree. Add enough water to cover meat.



• Simmer gently , partially covered for 30 minutes until meat and vegys are cooked through



• Set any portion aside that you are planning to freeze now, BEFORE adding the herbs. Freezing changes the concentration and flavor of herbs.



• Add herbs like oregano, rosemary, bay or thyme . If the sauce is too acid, add small amounts of brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon at a time or add lemon peel or cumin- I have no idea why the lemon peel or cumin works but it does take that sharp taste away.

Tomorrow I will cook the spaghetti squash in the microwave. If you have never had one, it's a strange vegetable. The inside is filled with long , delicious edible strings that look like spaghetti. It's a nice change from the wheat kind.

Lime Pudding

Limes were cheaper than lemons at the Weis market this week.

• Open 1 can sweetened evaporated Milk into a bowl



• Add the juice of 2 limes with a bit of grated rind to the milk and stir. The mixture will thicken almost immediately.



• Layer banana slices and this pudding into 4 fancy stemmed glasses for a pretty and fast dessert.