Great chunks of meat pot-roasted with 5 or 6 vegetables until all the ingredients exchanged flavors and a cloud of aromatic steam erupted from the pot when the lid was lifted... Mamaliga was a bright-yellow pudding of cornmeal mush, so bland as to be almost tasteless even when it was salted.
I believe him, although I suspect he knows exactly what he's doing at his new place, Taberna do Mercado, with his twist on abade de priscos, a strikingly visual pudding – yellow and scarlet from its egg yolks and port caramel, given even more of a shareability factor by the addition of pork fat.
"Now you will never forget this lunch," Charles told him, "because the only thing I've really said to you is 'yellow pudding'".
Small dishes include smoked snoek pâté, a couple of South African meat stews; fried meat turnovers called vetkoek; and desserts like malva pudding, a yellow cake made with apricot jam, which visitors to South Africa will recognize.
... fried drumsticks or a slab of beef left over by a tourist with eyes bigger than his stomach; fruit salad gone a bit bad, perhaps left too long on the sun-drenched buffet table; fragments of pies and cakes, and alarming yellow dollops of custard pudding, nibbled at by a disciplined dieter -- processed sugars, fat, red meat and cholesterol, our modern Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
It's moist, tender but very yellow. 2 stars Black pudding Ginger Pig £11.50 a kilo, Ginger Pig.
When tasteless yellow coloring is added to vanilla pudding, consumers say it tastes like banana or lemon pudding.
Made from split yellow peas and boiled in a pudding bag along with the rest of the ingredients, it is almost like a dumpling.
BEST DISHES: Tamalitos de pato, crepas de huitlacoche, fava bean and goat cheese turnovers, crab and corn turnovers, guacamole, mixiote de puerco, chicken with huitlacoche and cremini mushrooms, yellow fin tuna, torta de vegetales, bread pudding.
