Twist on Super Simple Panna Cotta Recipe

Tuesday night. Invited to dinner at friend's house. Offered to bring dessert. Question: buy dessert for three people for less than five euros? Or do some pantry scrounging and make something?

Solution: panna cotta.

Not immediately the easiest thing to make in France, as it's tough to find heavy cream - the dessert's primary ingredient (id est "panna").

Quickly checked out the easiest panna cotta recipe ever online. I had some key ingredients, like water and vanilla beans. A dash around the corner to the supermarket yielded crème fraîche instead of heavy cream, a handful of yellow and purple plums, and the second key ingredient - gelatin. Yum.

The recipe was cut in half, the plums were cooked down, and the vanilla beans leveled into the melted cream with the appropriate degree of reverence.

My little panne cotte only took 2 hours to set well enough for metro transport.

Girlfriends duly impressed (maybe too impressed, considering) and bellies full, for only 4.35 euros. Pantry cooking rules.

Montant à payer:
4.35 euro