RecipeMuncher

This post was supposed to be all about candy, tamarind candy: those little earthy, sweet, and twangy nuggets rolled in coarse sugar, bursting with bite as their texture clings to your teeth, their smoldering undercurrent of spice clinging to your tongue. It was supposed to be a snappy exotic departure from all the squash that is lined up in my kitchen for an assortment of cakes, custards, cookies, soups, and the pies that I swore I would resist baking. So I stirred up a pot of tamarind syr (...)