Trying a new recipe: Noodle Pudding · 11:43pm Jan 14th, 2018
We've been trying to introduce more variety into our meals, so I decided to make Noodle Pudding.
This is a dish that I ate at an International Club dinner at the local synagogue, and it was pretty darn good. One of the members got me the cookbook that had the recipe in it and I have been meaning to make it, I just kept putting it off. Well, tonight I decided to go ahead and do it.
Now, before I get to the entertaining part, let me just say that had I ingested a whole lot of caffeine earlier today AND had forgotten to take my anti-depressants for the last two days. So you can just imagine my mindset as I worked on this stuff. Luckily, my husband went to an AA meeting and everyone else stayed out of the kitchen, otherwise I might have ended up being CNN's next Breaking News.
First of all, the guy who wrote this recipe called for 1/4 pound of broad noodles and one pint of sour cream. Broad noodles (or egg noodles) are usually sold by the pound, not in fractions. Still, I was able to guesstimate and put a few handfuls into a pot to boil. The sour cream gave me a headache because it is NOT sold by the pint but by the ounce. My stepdaughter had to point out that 8 oz equals 1 cup, so 16 oz would equal one pint. Her fiance did point out, however, that there is a difference between fluid and solid ounces, but we just threw our hands in the air and begged him to hush.
Sooooo...while the noodles boiled, I stirred the other ingredients together: sour cream, eggs, sugar, and crushed pineapple. However, I found out I had grabbed a can of pineapple chunks by mistake. I snatched them out of the can and tore them to pieces with my bare hands. It did occur to me that I could have used a fork to crush the chunks instead, but GOD it felt pretty damn cathartic ripping into that fruit with my fingers.
Then after I'd done all this running around, figuring, and crushing, I found out this was for a "little" Noodle Pudding. For a big one, you need to double the recipe. I hope the guy, (and yes it really was a guy named Max) has an unlisted number because I am mighty tempted to kick his butt right now.
