Marie WheelerPinterest is fantastic for people who like swiping right on ideas that they will likely never attempt or complete. I am one of those people.
I started out with binders full of clippings from magazines. Obsessed with the ideas of what I could make or do and how awesome and admired I would be as I shared my successes, I clipped and clipped and filed it all away. I found them a month ago as I was re-organizing. I kept the binders and inserts and recycled 99.9% of the rest. Did I still love the ideas? Yes. Was I clearly not going to use them in their current format? Affirmative. I hadn’t touched any of the binders in at least five years.
Five years during which I obsessively compiled my stash of the greatest ideas ever on Pinterest.
Through this time, I have actually tried recipes and had a whole phase dedicated to home-made deodorant, detergents and cleaners, and while I have had some glowing successes, I have had many of the dreaded Pinterest Fails and have been repeatedly admonished to not use recipes procured from the site unless verifiable by a ‘reputable’ recipe website.
So, drumroll please….my first PFF is from Southern In Law:
Chai Chia Pudding!
First. I think we need to talk about why I have had so many fails in my Pinteresting career: I don’t follow recipes well. This is for two reasons, the fact that I don’t like to waste or store food that will be eventually wasted and the ‘finicky-ness’ of some recipes.
Since I already have a home-made mix of chai spices from a failed ‘make your own chai’ phase, instead of using the recipe, I used a ‘sprinkling’ of my home-made chai spice, likely around a teaspoon.
Next, I had bought a bunch of cans of coconut milk in a misguided attempt to ‘make your own Thai food’ and had them just chilling in my pantry. So lonely. I will not break up a can of coconut milk. It is all or nothing.
Lastly, I was not going to add sugar. I figured on fruit at the end. Samesies, right?
What Actually Happened…
I mixed about a teaspoon of the chai spice mixture, a can of full fat coconut milk and a 1/4 cup of chia seed and stirred with a spoon. I then stuck it all in the fridge overnight. Next day, added a few slices of mango and some blueberries.
Verdict: Pinterest Find or Fail?
Pinterest Find!!!! OMG, it was delicious!
Now, if you choose to use my ‘recipe’, be sure to recognize that I don’t have a lot of sugar in my diet, so it might not taste as amazing as I feel it does if you have a lot of sugar. I love the mouthfeel of the coconut milk and it is reminiscent of the rice pudding I miss so terribly. Nomz.
