waiting for flan

[ritaxis]

No words today. I cleaned and I visited with my father and stepmother, who has an insane desire to move to Santa Cruz, which is not exciting to mt father who has, well, a life, in San Francisco. I don't know who to root for. But we did look at nice houses today.

I have an orange flan in the oven. It should have been done by now.

Yesterday the mighty hunters brought home a passel of craterellus and a few candy caps and a blewit (sorry, no picture. Suffice it to say: it's mauve). I sauteed them and mixed them with ziti. We had deliciousness.

I'm very sleepy and I want that flan to finish up.

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[mayakda.livejournal.com]

Heh. I wish I could be more touchy-feely when cooking. I need specs and diagrams, usually.

I think the secret to my hubby's flan recipe is that the egg yolks+condensed milk+evaporated milk+sugar mixture must be refrigerated for at least 2 hours so the bubbles dissipate. The whites don't get used at all (which is why when we make flan we also end up making either meringue or egg white omelettes)

The caramel top is annoying. We put sugar in the pan we're going put the flan in, and slowly melt it over the gas range. Tricky, as it's easy to burn.

After the thing gets steam-cooked in the pressure cooker, we cool it in the fridge again.