Tomorrow morning I will finally face the music. I've been listening to it (or rather feeling it) growing louder: six months ago it was pianissimo, but in the last week or so it ramped up to forte. I thought I was done with this particular concerto; but as it turns out, dentists are not infallible, and the two wisdom teeth my dentist said would never even descend did in fact come in. I suppose the technical term is "erupt," but that puts me a little too much in mind of cataclysmic explosions--not exactly what I want to think about on the eve of the surgery to have them out.
And that's what this is all about, this business of putting up a post about chocolate when I would otherwise be writing about apple muffins. (But fear not! That post is coming, probably next week.) In preparation for having a couple of teeth yanked, I have been all a bustle in the kitchen. Cool, soft food is the order of the day, so in addition to stocking up on ice cream, I've been making applesauce and pudding. Two kinds of pudding, actually: rice pudding and, as is probably obvious from that leading image, chocolate pudding.
I don't recall what made me think of chocolate pudding as good post-op fare; but as soon as it occurred to me, a switch was thrown, and it was all I could do not to rush home from work at that very moment to make it. I hadn't even decided on a recipe yet. I poked around a bit, and there are plenty of chocolate pudding recipes out there, but most of them didn't quite hit the spot. I wanted something creamy, slightly eggy, and richly chocolatey. Eventually I settled on a recipe from Cook's Illustrated that uses not only chocolate, but cocoa powder; not only milk, but cream; and three egg yolks. It sounded like it might fit the bill.
And indeed, it does fit the bill. Better than that, it's everything I was dreaming of in a chocolate pudding. The knowledge that I would be one very unhappy post-op patient if I ran out of pudding too quickly was the only thing that kept me from inhaling half of the batch before it ever made it into the little ramekins I had set out. I can't say that I'm looking forward to the having those teeth out tomorrow, but at least I'll have chocolate pudding waiting for me afterward.Double Chocolate Pudding
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Adapted from Cook's Illustrated, March 1999
Makes 4-6 servings, depending on how
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Ugh. I had all four of mine out in January. Stayed awake for it too... not at all pleasant and the aftermath is even worse. You'll be happy to have that pudding. I had made butternut squash and stocked up on yogurt, but I really didn't have an appetite for anything. I only ate so that I could take the painkillers. Chocolate pudding is a great idea. I'm sure it will make up for the whole unpleasant experience. Good luck!
Ahh, your pudding looks so decadent and creamy. And I'm seriously in love with your photo skills. I know I say that every 2 seconds but you always amaze me! Hope the chocolate helps you heal quickly!
Your pudding looks delicious!! so rich and creamy! I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth out in college. My mom made me tons of smoothies - put pineapple in them - the enzymes in the fruit allegedly help with the swelling....and also, its just delicious.
Good Luck!
Yikes, Megan! Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. Alicia, I can't imagine having all four impacted! I think I got lucky this time around after a fair-to-middling experience with the bottom two. The surgeon I saw this time was excellent, and the recovery went much better than last time. I still didn't have much of an appetite for the first few days (like you, Megan, I ate so that I could take the pain meds), but now things are almost back to normal. Thanks for the well wishes, everyone!
Alicia, I didn't know that about the enzymes in the pineapple. I was a little reluctant to have anything very acidic in my mouth, but I did have a smoothie that had a bit of pineapple in it.
Oh, and about the pictures, confession time: there was a bit of Photoshop involved. It was dark when I made the pudding, so I couldn't take pictures of it fresh from the pot. The next day, when I brought it out of the fridge to get the pictures, it got all sorts of condensation on it, which made it look mottled in the pictures. So I smoothed out the mottled look. The structural swirls and such are all real, and in fact it did look that smooth straight out of the pot (richer, even), but when I took the pictures it wasn't as clean-looking. Okay, I feel better now. :)
I love your photos to DEATH!
good luck with your teeth :-(
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