Bread Pudding is different every time you make it!

Baked and nearly ready... Bread Pudding ( CLICK on picture for recipe)

I do enjoy recipes where the product turns out the same every time you make it… but bread pudding isn’t one of those type of recipes. Chefs usually made bread pudding with just about anything they had on hand: croissants, slices of cake, muffins… and yes, bread.

So my usual trip to the day old baker often yields some surprising results: blueberry jam filled puff pastry turnovers, muffins and some french bread ( I prefer baguettes). Oh I have to let it cool… which will give me time to prepare a very nice Amarula/ Barenjager sauce.

Bon Appetite.

it’s bread pudding time!

it's bread pudding time
white raisins (saltanas) in armagnac, dried blueberries in rye whiskey and vanilla effusing Puerto Rican Rum! CLICK on the picture for the recipe and step-by-step directions.

I call this my ‘starter kit’ for my bread pudding. I’ll let this sit around in the refrigerator before I go to the day old bakery to find the perfect ‘stale’ bread, cake, and croissants for my bread pudding. The ‘sauce’ I’ll make at the last minute….

Although this dessert descends from humble beginnings, there is nothing humble about this wonderful dish by itself, a la mode or at the conclusion of your dinner.

Can’t wait!

nothing says ‘love’ like a quiche!

Nothing brings a smile at brunch like a quiche... and for those fun times a little champagne!

If I have any culinary weakness , it is for that wonderful invention of that great German dish…. ‘quiche!’ Okay, you think it is so French, but it is not. Read the first link below for it’s great story:

Quiche Karla Loraine and recipe

Yar, the world is full of quiches and various sea creatures, but if it be some strong drink to settle your innards, Capt’n Rog Crab Quiche be what yar lookin for.

that be Crab Quiche ahead, maties!

Now, I must be about my business of fixing the quiche!

Good season for our grapes

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First, this is my first attempt at blogging with my iPhone … It is convenient but will take some practice.

In any event, as my Concord Grapes will attest, it looks like a great year!

Roger

(this test turned out okay… but it looks like I am ging to have to research how to scale down the pictures to 440 px wide.)