Table Talk » Pizza and Pudding - Cook With What You Have Challenge Day 13

Tonight was the second Friday in my Cook With What You Have Challenge. Friday is pizza night so of course I made pizza with the help of my friend Pat. She did all the dirty work tonight, including washing all of the dishes. Thanks Pat! I made two small pizzas. One pizza was topped with hot Italian chicken sausage from the freezer. For the other, I roasted two red peppers from the fridge and an onion from the pantry. I use Pastene Ground Peeled Tomatoes for the sauce and tonight I opened my last can of them. I used half of the can, the rest will go into the freezer for next week's pizza, then I'll be out of the tomatoes needed for pizza. Oh no. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

I've been craving something creamy and chocolately, so this afternoon I started looking for recipes for homemade chocolate pudding. I found this recipe for Best Chocolate Pudding on the Smitten Kitchen blog. I had everything needed but milk. But that problem was easily solved by the cans of coconut milk in the pantry. The pudding was smooth, rich, and creamy; the coconut milk flavor was there, under the chocolate, it was subtle, not overpowering. We both gobbled it up.