It is usually pounded with a little sugar, coconut cream or fresh coconut and boiled or baked to make a type of pudding.
Sliced brioche, any type of fruit loaf and items such as hot cross buns can also be tasty in this type of pudding.
The Spanish have a couple of types of black pudding – the cured and dried version, which you can eat just sliced like chorizo, or the soft, fresh one.
The menu includes traditional Cork delicacies such as tripe and onions with drisheen (a type of black pudding made from sheep's blood), plus Irish lamb stew, seafood chowder, salads and open sandwiches.
Shahi Tukda: Loosely translated as a type of bread pudding, this dessert that originated in the Middle East and has been through several adaptations over time is another classic, a perfect end to any meal.
His next project will be "pudding of a nox," a type of medieval blood pudding, which he's trying out spefically because a few members of his team have never tried it before.
It was in that same Slack chat room where, shortly before I started writing this, Joel Golby was telling me that Christmas lunch should involve no turkey, no bread sauce, but Yorkshire puddings and several types of potato.
I'd pull out all the stops: Turkey and goose, three types of stuffing, sprouts and chestnuts, flambe Christmas pudding and brandy butter - like in a Dickens novel.
It should be the consistency of pudding.
