When Joe and I started dating, I’d ask him what his favourite dessert was, and he’d tell me it was his mum’s “brown sugar thing.” I never understood what he meant when he tried to explain what it was. Luckily, his mum gave me her recipe during Christmas of 2020 when she asked if I could make it for Joe since he couldn’t fly home to England. “Just something that would remind him of home,” she said.
“Brown sugar thing” was a yogurt parfait.
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