New month, new theme.
It has been hot, hot, hot here in North Carolina.
About six years ago I declared that August was going to be no-heat month. The reason for this theme was a coworker whose oven died and she had cookie dough that she needed to bake. With my eye ever on the experimentation of my coworkers idea, I suggested baking on the grill. After all, the gas grills these days have a temperature gauge.
Then I thought to myself Cookie Thursday is a Thing needs a no-heat month.
Voila.
No-heat month was born.
Or created.
Or thought into being.
Whatever.
No baked-in-the-ovens cookies will be had this month.
This week my attention was grabbed by a pan de eclair recipe. An eclair cake. But fake.
This recipe has no choux pastry or baking. Which one of my coworkers pointed out when I took the make to the hospital. I know! The making of eclair shells requires baking. Which requires the oven.
No heat! (written in my best Edna Mode)
This recipe is made with already baked, out of the package I had in the pantry of plenty from the grocery store graham crackers
I did make homemade pudding though. Because I didn’t want to go to the store.
Did you know that homemade pudding is dead simple?
Huh, the things I learn from CTIAT. I certainly won’t be buying pudding mixes from the store anymore!
Except for pistachio. But I bet there is a DIY recipe for that too.
Why, yes, I’ve certainly had enough caffeine for the day! Why do you ask?
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 