Homemade Chocolate Pudding Pie
Fall Nesting Rituals……
Today was one of two big nesting days. We trimmed the trees and hedges, cleared out the garden, and put the lawn furniture away last weekend. Today I cleaned out the girls room. Not just vacuuming around the furniture and picking up the toys but moved all the furniture pieces away from the walls and cleaned behind them, under them and in them. Every few months I do this and while I’m at it, I change the furniture placement. The girls LOVE it. It’s like Christmas morning for them, without the wrapping paper and the huge dent in the bank account.
Anyway -no big nesting day around here passes without a dig down into the pantry to see what’s back there and getting forgotten about. Today, it was a can of sweetened condensed milk, some graham cracker crumbs and some cocoa powder. SO – it’s homemade pudding in a graham crumb pie shell.
There is, of course a few calories from sugar etc, but, all in all, not a horrible choice to make for Sunday night dinner. It also has a fair amount of calcium and it’s not too high in fat, so that’s gotta count for something, eh?!
Recipe:
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups Evaporated Milk
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp vanilla Extract
1) Mix cocoa, cornstarch, salt, water and condensed milk in a sauce pan and whisk to blend.
2) Cook over medium heat stirring constantly for 7-10 minutes, until thickened.
3) Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Stir to combine.
You can serve it warm of cold. At this point, I slapped together the graham pie shell, as directed on the box, and poured the warm pudding on top. I chilled it and served it after a nice bowl of squash soup and some homemade croutons.
