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Post by bbird on Oct 13, 2007 22:41:16 GMT -5
When I would have a cold when I was younger, my grandma would make tapioca. Then she put it in this insulated box, tie it on to the back of her snowmobile and rush over to our house to give it to me while it was still warm. It was something she swore is good for the tummy, and my mom never made it.
I haven't had it since I was about 12 years old I bet, but I found a box of tapioca pearls at the store and thought I'd try and make it myself. I don't know why I thought it was a hard thing to make, but it is super easy. Dh had never had it and either had our kids...it was fun to see them looking it over, wondering what those clear beads were and if they were suppose to eat them, lol.
It gave me the warm fuzzies to eat some tonight.
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Post by Kathy on Oct 13, 2007 22:54:29 GMT -5
I love tapioca pudding.  My mother used to make that for our 'breakfast' on Saturday mornings along with home made donuts during the winter months.  Warm pudding and warm donuts really were comfort food. I had to smile when you talked about your grandma putting the pudding in an insulated box on the snowmobile. For a second I forgot you grew up in Alaska.  Did you use the small pearls or the large ones? I haven't made it yet but I got some large pearls at an Asian store-they're multicolored. I bet the kids would like those! |
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Post by bbird on Oct 13, 2007 23:05:41 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I'm going to have to look for the colored one's that would be so funny! I used the smaller one's just because I wasn't sure how they would take having them in the pudding and I had no idea what my Grandma used but she must have used the small ones too.
Oh man, donuts and tapioca...I'll have to do that too!
I didn't think of explaining that when I wrote it, but yes that is in AK, lol. Much faster to get across the lake where we lived in the winter with the snowmobile. We saw a lot more of our relatives in the winter, then in the summer when they had to drive all the way around the lake and go farther.
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Post by starfire on Oct 14, 2007 16:04:04 GMT -5
I have never had that before. Where would you find it in the store, with what items? I would like to try it next time I go to the store. Sounds like someting good for the winter.
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Post by Kathy on Oct 14, 2007 19:27:01 GMT -5
Starfire, I got the multicolor tapioca at the Asian Market at the corner of Summer and White Station. There's a Japanese/Asian steakhouse attached to it at the front-it starts with an R but I can't remember the name.  I'll post a recipe for tapioca pudding, it's really simple. It's on the box of tapioca that you get in the regular grocery stores-found in the baking isle usually by the Jello and other pudding mixes but not on the bag of multicolor pearls that you'll buy at the Asian store. You know, I've never been on a snowmobile!  I lived in the north most of my life but none of our friends or family had them so I never got to have that experience.  |
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Post by bbird on Oct 14, 2007 19:33:43 GMT -5
Yep, bought it by the pudding like Kathy said. About $3.50 for a box, but it lasts. I only used about a 1/4 of the box for the six of us.
Snowmobiles are the easiest things to ride....that is why Grandma could do it, lol.
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