Tag: Year of Custards

• Freezer Scrap Redemption

  

  Everything failed eventually becomes bread pudding. The Hawaiian bread disasters, the Stealth Bread ends, the four-year-old carrot oat buns — they all lead here.

  Angela

  May 13, 2026

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  bread pudding, breakfast, comfort food, expat cooking, Finnish ingredients, freezer archaeology, kitchen, marshmallows, ruokakerma, stealth bread, Year of Custards

• Mummo Goes to Kozy Shack

  

  Finnish riisipuuro meets American pudding cup, mediated by British custard powder, in a slow cooker made in the USA. Multiple countries in one dessert.

  Angela

  May 6, 2026

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  Bird’s Custard, breakfast, comfort food, expat cooking, Finnish cooking, Finnish food, Finnish ingredients, kitchen, rice pudding, ruokakerma, slow cooker, Year of Custards

• Mannapuuro in a Cocktail Dress

  

  Mannapuuro is Finnish semolina porridge — simple, austere, the kind of thing your mummo made. My version uses cooking cream, vanilla sugar, and a tempered egg, which technically makes it a custard. Add strawberry jam and it tastes like strawberry ice cream. I didn’t plan this. The Year of Custards keeps claiming victims.

  Angela

  April 15, 2026

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  breakfast, comfort food, custard, expat cooking, Finnish cooking, Finnish food, kitchen, mannapuuro, ruokakerma, semolina, Year of Custards