To want a warm pud every night?

[NW2SW]

It's cold, and miserable and I'm craving custard and a sweet-sweet stodgy dessert after every evening meal.

Please tell me I'm not the only one? Has anyone found a healthy-ish alternative that'd hit the spot, before I turn into a pudding.

Loving this thread as it is enabling all my 'it's nearly winter, bring on the stodge' feelings. Anyone got any suggestions for using up dates? I'm not a massive fan but got a bag of them in our fruit and veg box and it would be a pity for them to go to waste.

My nickname for my cat is also pud/pudding so that may not help my current fixation.

as long as you don't end up eating the cat out of desparation...

But it's reminded me that it is officially Bread and Butter season in my part of Germany. So that's good.

Steamed jam sponge pudding, quick in the microwave, with custard.

@MogThoughtDarkThoughts

Loving this thread as it is enabling all my 'it's nearly winter, bring on the stodge' feelings. Anyone got any suggestions for using up dates? I'm not a massive fan but got a bag of them in our fruit and veg box and it would be a pity for them to go to waste.

Date Duff. Dad had it in the Navy.

Delicious!

Watching with interest

I think we need a certain amount of comfort food in our house. DH has switched us over to eating really healthily, and there are practically no snacks in the house, but we have a small dessert after a healthy (or healthyish) dinner. Up to now it's been good quality, farm shop icecream, but it's getting too cold for that now.

Quite like the idea of rice pudding.

Yeah, those of you with your 'what about fruit and yoghurt?' can feck right off. (Sorry )
I have found my people.
Proud owner of the Pudding Club's recipe book from years ago here. Sadly not illustrated, but has some lovely things in it.
Need to make my Xmas pudding soon. Nothing like home made with hidden centre of quartered glace cherries mixed with a bit of home made blackcurrant jam.

@MogThoughtDarkThoughts

Loving this thread as it is enabling all my 'it's nearly winter, bring on the stodge' feelings. Anyone got any suggestions for using up dates? I'm not a massive fan but got a bag of them in our fruit and veg box and it would be a pity for them to go to waste.

Sticky toffee pudding uses dates

@MogThoughtDarkThoughts

Loving this thread as it is enabling all my 'it's nearly winter, bring on the stodge' feelings. Anyone got any suggestions for using up dates? I'm not a massive fan but got a bag of them in our fruit and veg box and it would be a pity for them to go to waste.

Sticky toffee pudding of course!

@MogThoughtDarkThoughts

Date Duff seems to be a Navy/Submariner thing:

rnsubs.co.uk/dits-bits/recipes/figgy-duff-or-sticky-date-pudding.html

YABU to call it pud, but other than that I’m with you x

Rice pudding {NOT TINNED} is delicious.....lots of nutmeg, and a delicious skin.

Fat free yoghurt is Spawn of the Divil.

Oh gosh yes! I do...most nights!

I've started buying the small individual Mr Kipling Apple Pies, and the small pots of custard! Finishes me off just right.

I tend to make a lot of baked custards with a mix of cream and milk, flavoured with whatever we have to hand (berries, very dark chocolate, matcha). I use xylitol to sweeten them so they're not too high in sugar at least.

I love a baked apple or pear. Core it but leave it whole. Stuff the core gap with something, eg chopped dried fruit or crumble mixture, or leave the core gap to pour custard into after baking. Sprinkle on a little brown sugar. Bake. Eat.

I actually don't think a pud every night is a sin.

I grew up on meat and two veg and a pudding and custard every day and wasn't overweight until middle age and a love of wine. Wine makes me crave sweets and chocolate and I eat far too many. But seriously when I eat a good dinner and a pud I'm full and satisfied and want nothing else.

I'm sure my calorie count is less than days when i drink wine and eat chocolate.

gosh i would love a home made rice pudding right NOW

This time of year we do crumble for dinner about once a week usually when the kids have been swimming.

For those who want to be virtuous an eating apple cut into 8 (with one of those slicer things that removes the core) sprinkled with cinnamon then 2 mins in micro is delicious- often do them for afternoon snack. Dip in Greek yogurt as necessary

@lojoko - good call, but do you have any tried and tested recipes?

@oakleaffy ooh thanks, will definitely check that out!

I like to have stewed fruit with vanilla custard or vanilla ice cream. Crumbles better, but it'll do!

It's hard to get wrong IME. Last time I made it I used a Nigel Slater recipe. Probably this: beebrecipes.co.uk/recipe/stickytoffeepudding_83907 (but from a book)

(Except I didn't mix it in a bowl but in a food mixer on slow.)

I get those mug cakes and just have them in the cupboard for emergencies

I also like making porridge and adding fruit and Nuts and seeds to it. Then I add some chocolate or peanut butter to go gooey on the top, that feels a lot like dessert but then I don't ever really eat it for breakfast. Breakfast is usually savoury.

At Stonehenge Festival, as teenagers, someone had a tin of that steamed golden syrup sponge.
We boiled it over a fire, topping the pan up with water, then realised that without custard it wasn't so good.

It had about six people tending to it, then no one wanted to eat it.

I think our appetites had been suppressed though.
Are those tinned sponge puddings still made?

Well I wasn't!

Am thinking now though-tinned peaches any good for a crumble?

I'm not a custard person but happen to have some double cream...

I feel you OP, yanbu

We have dessert every day of the year though. No none of us are fat, I think it’s about portion size. A pudding every night isn’t a sin.

Current favourite is Warm apple tart and vanilla custard.