This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, is Chocolate Pudding, can be found on page 383, and was chosen by Melissa from It's Melissa's Kitchen.
Chocolate. Lots of it. I knew it was coming eventually. The guys here were delighted. This recipe uses a lot of equipment, well, let's just say a lot more than the boxed kind where you whip it together with one bowl and whisk. Considerably more. When I finished making it, I had chocolate from one end of the prep area to the other in an alarming quantity. Well, okay, maybe not all that much, but when you don't really care for an ingredient, it seemed like a real mess. I kept thinking, "This had better be the best darn chocolate pudding EVER if I am going to make this EVER again." I needed a pot, a food processor, a prep bowl, various measuring cups and spoons, and any number of steps to create this pudding. 
And, the result? Well, although I was hoping that the boxed J-E-L-L-O would be just as good, therefore saving me a lot of prep and cleanup, the pronouncement here was, "This is absolutely the best pudding I have ever had. Ever." (Mark) "Oh, this is so very very good." (Alex) "Mom, this is really great. I hope we can have this again." (Matt) So, I think I'm stuck...stuck making it again. And, truthfully, I think I can clean up my act a bit in the prep part. Oh...and my opinion on the taste, you ask..."Yeah, right, I am not eating this, even in the name of research...." 
If you like chocolate (there are two kinds in the recipe), you will no doubt love this pudding. I served it with freshly whipped cream and I think there is one little bowl of it left...may have to share that about with someone who loves chocolate and looks forward to reading my TWD post each week.
Next week's recipe is Cherry Rhubarb Cobbler, was selected by Amanda from Like Sprinkles on a Cupcake and can be found on page 415 of the cookbook.
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