The Thankful Pudding

In true form to this blog, this post is about three months late.

This sticky date pudding was made for a Thanksgiving among family and friends in Salt Lake City and for an audience composed entirely of sticky date virgins.

We took the recipe found on this blog and made it cake sized instead of for ramekins. It turned out pretty good. Not the best SDP I've ever had, but everyone who tried it was a fan. A break away from the traditional Thanksgiving desserts of apple and pumpkin pie, our pudding created an exotic blend to the otherwise all American meal (although, I was just reminded that there was also a Halal and a vegetarian turkey - no, not Tofurky, a vegetarian turkey. Yeah, I know, it doesn't make sense).

Anyway, it was good. The leftovers we brought home to my brother's house didn't last long. The only mishap was when Adam spilled the butterscotch sauce all over his pants in the car - not pretty at all. Fortunately, this was after the main dinner.

Date Walnut Tart

I was looking over the blogs I administer the other day and noticed The SDP Connoisseur. I began to feel remorse for not blogging in such a long time and a dim memory crossed my mind... I did have SDP recently... what was that?

Above is a picture of the Date Walnut Tart from Vinegar Hill House in Brooklyn. Mom came into town (town meaning New York, where we now live) a couple of weekends ago and took us out to hip Brooklyn.

Vinegar Hill House does not take reservation, but no problem, because there is a bar! Our wait for a table was 2 hours long. Our meal, as far as I can remember, was amazing.

Our dessert, I completely forgot about until browsing through my blogs.

I'm pretty sure it was incredible. I don't think I forgot about it because of it's lack of incredibility, but because of the 2 hour hungry bar wait leading up to it. It was (is) a pretty incredible, cute little restaurant. And look at that picture! Yum. I can't believe we remembered to take a picture of it! However, this black spot on my memory does make me wonder what other SDP related desserts I've forgotten about over the years...