Hell Yeah Cooking

urbanfoodie:

When you go on a macaron-making binge, you’re inevitably left with a lot of egg yolks. You could make a bunch of things: pudding, mayonnaise, hollandaise sauce, bearnaise sauce, caesar salad dressing, pastry cream, carbonara pasta, some kind of cream pie, or any variety of custards, just to name a few. My mind immediately goes to leche flan because it’s my mom’s go-to dessert for every family event (actually, it’s a Filipino party staple). My mom doesn’t really use a written recipe, but it always seems to come together nicely (well, except when she takes an Ambien and then forgets about it in the oven). Here’s a sample of her work:

For a potluck recently, I attempted my own version of this national dessert with some non-Filipino flavors.

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