I remember the smell of burnt sugar spreading throughout the whole house.  For some reason, that always happened on rainy days in Tokyo.  My mom made this simple, classic and non-flashy kind of flan when I was a little kid.  It was not always consistent. Sometimes it was dense and sometimes it was kind of runny.  It was not perfect, that is why I adore her flan even today.

It is raining in Seattle today (or 182 days of the year) and it is Saturday.  Pandora is playing Simple Minds and rain keeps falling down, down and down so it is perfect day for making some imperfect flans.