Yes, chocolate pudding again. It’s easy to make, and it’s nice and chocolaty, which is all I really want right now.

Funny thing is a never got excited about chocolate pudding as a child. Possibly because the only pudding I ever got was out of a box, which just isn’t inspiring. And Brian like butterscotch pudding, which is nasty. (Second only to butterscotch ice cream.) The problem with butterscotch is that it never tasted like butter rum.

But homemade chocolate pudding is different. I know what ingredients go in it: cocoa, salt, corn starch, sugar, milk, bittersweet chocolate, and vanilla. (I use Mexican vanilla here, not the Madagascar bourbon vanilla).

Yea, I suppose I could be accused of being a food snob, but my feeling is that if I’m going to eat empty calories, then I should be making it worth my while and eat something that tastes really good, instead of sweets for the sake of eating sweets.

But it’s also comforting, and I need comfort right now. Work has been very busy and very tiring, and most days I don’t want to do anything more than collapse and let my brain zone out. Comfort is what I need, and chocolate pudding hits the spot.

The pudding is the consistency of chocolate milk before it’s heated, but even when I don’t see it boiling (because I’m stirring constantly) there is a noticeable shift when it thickens.

Poured into the bowls and waiting to be cooled and eaten.

Mmm…. chocolate pudding.