I love this recipe. It is the perfect light, spring time dessert. I wish that lilacs were not so ephemeral and I could enjoy it more than just a few weeks a year. Makes 5 small puddings Lilac Water:½ cup (120g) boiling water½ cup rinsed lilac blossoms Lilac Jelly Topping:½ tsp (1.25 g) gelatin2 tbs hot water½ cup (120 g) lilac water2 tbs granulated sugar15-20 fresh lilac blossoms, washedred and blue food coloring for color (optional) Coconut Milk Pudding:2 tsp (5…
[Jump to Recipe] [Jump to Thai Tea Variation] I have never been in a town with so many apple trees. It seems like people choose to plant them as “ornamental” trees and that is pretty cool. The only small issue (and it is pretty small, also no pun intended) is that the apples aren’t quite crabapples but also not quite eating apples. I did not want to let all these small apples falling all over the neighborhood go to waste…
[Jump to Recipe] We are reaching the end of lilac season here. The dark purple ones I used for my previous recipes are almost all gone but there are still other variations of bushes with different colors around. I was contemplating doing another lilac recipe while there was still a chance so I picked some. I was a little scarred after my first experience working with lilacs and decided I would change it up. This time I wanted to do something fun that…
[Jump to Lilac Syrup Recipe] [Jump to Lilac Sugar Recipe] It is spring in Colorado, finally. I don’t know what is normal weather here but I have never lived in a place where it snows on the first day of May or where it is 70° F one day and then 30 the next. I guess you can still call that time spring, but spring for me was always flowers and shoots and green all over the place. One of…