Flim flan

I had an idea. Actually, I had several ideas, and I sent them all to my editor at Vegetarian Times. Each one was an outline of a possible recipe using a particular ingredient under 300 calories per serving (you'll have to wait for the Nov/Dec issue to find out what that ingredient is -- if they like the final product). She chose four, I got to work, and three of the recipes came together without much fuss.

This weekend's project: a low-calorie flan. It's the most difficult. I've been playing with different combinations of ingredients, trying to keep things simple and natural. Flan is not normally on my list of desserts. And now I am tired of it.

The good news is that I think I've created a very tasty, relatively good for you flan. The bad news is that I haven't been able to write Part II of "All that jazz."

Until tomorrow ...