Cornstarch Pudding Pie

After about a two month forced break from the food challenge of 2013, I think we are back.  I was to do lychee before the whole mold and moving apartments fiasco, but by the time things got settled within the new apartment, fresh lychee became nonexistent here and canned lychee was not a favored option to me or the boyfriend.

Cornstarch Pudding Pie

As a result, the boyfriend sent me his grandmother's cornstarch pudding pie.  I have to admit, cornstarch pudding doesn't exactly entice me much.  If we added a little bit of rum, I think I would've been okay with the taste of it.

The results of this brought back a number of memories for the boyfriend.  Which I think is ultimately the point of the food challenge.  The memories he has growing up in the Midwest before moving to Washington D.C. for Graduate School then back to the Midwest to now the San Francisco Bay Area, result in him opening up a little more.

We are both onions when it comes to our emotions.  Every layer that is peeled is every layer exposing our inner selves.

Either way, the food challenge of 2013 is back for the remainder of the year.

Peaches, Custard, Meringue

I finally got the whisk for my kitchenaid!  The right size too!!!

I also picked up an old and I mean, old cookbook from one of the antique stores nearby and decided, why not experiment.

I found a recipe with fresh peaches, custard and a some-sort meringue.  The recipe dates over 80 years and old and is probably just as tasty today as it was when it was first published or even served. If I've learned anything on this experiment, it was that old recipes are a great way to keep history interesting.