Mango custard
This is my second attempt at making mango custard. The first one, a couple of months ago, was a total disaster and it took me a long time to muster the guts to try again. Yes, the first attempt was that bad. Traumatic. Terribly traumatic. It’s the kind of failure that makes me ask myself if I can really cook at all.
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Peaches and cream
Unlike the older mango royale recipe, I have found a way to make the cream filling firm without freezing. My husband prefers this dessert frozen but it loses its light and airy texture and instead acquires the texture of ice cream with ice crystals which I really do not enjoy. I prefer the cream filling to be custard-like, similar to the cream-cheese filling of tiramisu. The trick? Well-chilled cream and sweetened condensed milk.
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Mango-rum sorbet
Serving ice cream for dessert at a children’s party is always a safe idea. A lot of parents these days bring in a sorbetero with his own ice cream cart and he serves the ice cream to the kids in cones. The set-up is attractive, uniquely Filipino and the host and hostess are saved the [...]
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Crepes a la mode
We were watching Little Miss Sunshine a couple of weeks ago and there was this scene where Olive (Abigail Breslin) ordered waffles a la mode (she pronounced it a la mo-dee). The waitress explained that it meant the waffles would be served with ice cream and her uncle went on to expound on the origin [...]
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Chocolate-pinipig balls inspired by Magnolia’s pinipig crunch
Filipinos who grew up, or who reside, in the Philippines will know what I mean by ‘Magnolia’s pinipig crunch’. Filipinos who grew up abroad might not. I don’t expect too many foreigners to be familiar with it either.
Magnolia was an ice cream company that was bought out by Nestle a few years ago. Pinipig crunch [...]
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Cassava bibingka with custard topping
Kamoteng-kahoy (cassava) is a root crop. Even if you’re not familiar with the root crop itself, you would probably be familiar with by-products of cassava. Tapioca balls (sago) are made from cassava. Tapioca starch is the best thickener for Chinese-style stir fried dishes. Cassava suffered from some very bad publicity two years ago when school [...]
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