I made some creme brulee last night for a Valentine's day dinner tonight with my Valentine. It needs to refrigerate for a while so it's better to make it day ahead. This stuff should be illegal, it is so good. Heavy cream by itself is sinfully good. Then I added sugar and vanilla bean and wanted to drink the entire mix immediately. I held back but did have several, uh, twenty little tastes. Then I added the egg yolks to the mix and poured it into the ramekins. And had a few more tastes. Then baked it in a water bath in the oven, and when I took it out, I had to talk myself out of eating one of them early. Why is it that something tastes so good has to be so full of fat and cholesterol? Is the definition of good "bad"?

It takes quite a bit of time and effort to make creme brulee. It's very simple in terms of the ingredients, but requires a complicated process to make it. I would not complain when a restaurant asks $7-8 for it. Unless they are using a pre-made powdered mix, which I tried at a dessert expo last spring. It was good, but not the real thing.