Welcome again to Sunday Brunch, with notes and ideas from the lighter side of the menu. Today is National Tapioca Day, a day to celebrate this starchy substance that has been long been used as ...

For decades I’ve admired Chef Jacques Pepin. As a cookbook author, teacher, and PBS TV star, he changed the way I cook and think. Recently I took great delight when Food and Wine magazine arrived. His ...

Next week is Diwali, the festival of lights, followed by the dawning of a New Year that Indians celebrate around the world. When it comes to Diwali, one can never have enough sweets. Sweets, like ...

The secret to perfect homemade tapioca pudding? Patience — and plenty of whole milk. Vanilla bean paste and vanilla extract are both products made from vanilla beans that impart vanilla flavor, but ...

This is my way of combining two things I love, tapioca and peach pie filling, in a dessert whose elements can be prepared in advance and assembled at the last minute. It’s layered like a parfait, ...

Every dish has a taste and purpose of its own, and when it comes to root vegetables, it is not only the potato that is a favourite. Another product of a root vegetable that has earned a day all to ...

1/2 cup Minute tapioca 4 cup Skim milk 6 tbsp Sugar twin 2 Egg whites 2 tsp Vanilla extract SEE NOTE in Description to make chocolate tapioca ...

1/3 cup quick-cooking tapioca 3/4 cup sugar Pinch of kosher salt or sea salt 2 eggs, beaten 3 1/2 cups milk 1 vanilla bean 1. Put the tapioca, sugar, salt, eggs and milk in the top of a double boiler.

This old-fashioned dessert is coming back into style; I saw it on gastropub menus in both Britain and New York. Think of it as a more sophisticated rice pudding. Use pearl tapioca, not the instant ...