Vegetarians in Paradise/ Vegan Tapioca Pudding Dessert Recipe

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Dear Aunt Nettie,

You've been sharing your great recipes for a long time. I thought I would take this opportunity to share one with you. Here's my recipe for vegan tapioca, one of the few treats I was really missing since going vegan, and it's a pretty absurdly simple recipe.

Take it easy!
John

Well, Howdy there, John,

Yer such a sweet child sendin' me this recipe from yer very own kitchen. I got so dizzy exclaimin' my excitement I pretty near lost the elastic in my knickers! Fer you young'uns out there, knickers is what ole folks like me wear under our skirts--just don't go tellin' everybody 'bout it, now.

Well, darlin', yer recipe sounds so speshul, it oughter be in a magazine with a shiny color pitcher. I got all the fixin's right here an' I'm gonna start a'cookin' it now.

Yer ever lovin' Aunt Nettie

VEGAN BLUEBERRY CHOCOLATE
CHIP TAPIOCA PUDDING

1/3 cup (80 ml) organic cane sugar crystals
1/4 cup (60 ml) corn starch
3 tablespoons tapioca beads
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 3/4 cups (660 ml) soy milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup (60 ml) frozen blueberries
1/4 cup (60 ml) non-dairy chocolate chips

In medium saucepan combine sugar, corn starch, tapioca, and salt. Gradually stir in milk until smooth.
Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium heat and boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and blueberries.
Pour into serving bowls. Cover; refrigerate.
Add chocolate chips before serving.

If You Haven't Met Aunt Nettie. . .

Our Aunt Nettie has a head like a hard disk. It's filled with gigabytes of information about food and cooking. And she's just itchin' to share her learnin' with city folk who live in mortal fear of the stovetop.

Aunt Nettie grew up on the farm. She did not eat out of a can or reach into the freezer. There was no microwave to pop her food into. Everything she made was from scratch. All the food she ate was natural, without pesticides. It was grown right there on the family farm, and she had to cook to survive. At eighty-three years young she still leaps and bounds around the kitchen and can shake, rattle, and roll those pots and pans with the best of them.

Nowadays, Aunt Nettie just shakes her head and complains, "Nobody cooks anymore. They have no idea about puttin' a meal together." She's on a mission. She wants to help those younguns eat better so they can grow up healthy like her own eight kids.

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