cold, tired & down? a nice serving of warm breading pudding with a rum sauce is just what the doctor ordered!
To all my friends who are suffering in today’s cold weather, I wish they would bake a ‘nice bread pudding’ to perk themselves right up. To me, it is a little bit of sunshine in a casserole pan!
Having lived a time or two in cold and very cold weather, I saved a few recipes from those days that would always hit the spot… and whether or not is was a soup or a ‘buckle’ it always something bread-like about it or with it.
So, fire up the internal furnaces… things will look better again.
Roger Freberg
PS. the side byproduct of this recipe is a nice cordial
I tend to think that kitchens need to be designed to be functional rather than purely aesthetic. Appliances need to address specific wants and needs and no more. With three freezers having one more in the kitchen is ridiculous and wastes energy. I particularly liked the fact that this refrigeratorboasts an annual energy cost of 48 dollars a year… yes, a year! Frozen food needs — for lower cost and energy conservation reasons — should be placed into a ‘coffin’ style freezer.
Anyway, I love fun equipment and when it comes to knives… Global knives ... I have so many!
a Global knife - the 'true' knife
I guess this is just another example of boys and their toys!
a huge crowd (over 300) comes to learn tree pruning!
Well… it has been an interesting look into American resolve to see how many folks came to see, hear and participate in a tree pruning lecture.
Not all of these folks own an orchard, many have only a few trees — or like us — one very spectacular Apple tree! So, if you don’t know by now, this is the time to prune your apple tree.
The reason – I believe – that folks came to listen was to learn how they could more efficiently use the tree (s) they have. I believe that people also have a desire to produce more home grown crops and save a little money along the way. Potentially tough economic times have a way of getting us all think about how we live our lives, what we can live without and — most importantly — how we can make it better.
Nothing is better than home grown and home made foods!
Laura and I love our little Apple tree and we constantly fight over whether or not we turn it into apple sauce ( Laura’s idea) or apple pie ( my idea).
The head Cal Poly guru came out and said that normally they hold these meetings inside in a classroom of 30, but since over 300 showed up, he thought maybe outside would be better. With a droll smile, he said that this was the largest gathering for a meeting of fruit pruners… ever… in America…. everyone laughed!
If this encourages folks to eat better, lose weight and get outdoors… it’s a good sign for our land.
home made eggnog ice cream fits right in with our special bread pudding!
I received a few inquiries on our home made ice cream and I didn’t include it with the bread pudding recipe because it was rather simple and because I included a short cut… the use of store made egg nog ( although I guess I could use some of my own home made eggnog… but it has more important uses… ahem!)
Our Eggnog Ice cream recipe based on a few changes to a simple vanilla ice cream recipe:
8 egg yolks
1 pint eggnog
1 pint heavy cream
1 vanilla pod
1 cup Baker’s sugar
steps:
a) infuse the seeds from the vanilla pod into the cream
b) whip up egg yolks ( I save the egg whites for topping my breads to hold on seeds and such)
c) mix all ingredients together and place into ice cream maker
Nothing warms you or fills you up on a cold winter’s day like a nice bread pudding!
Although — historically — many folks snub the humble ‘bread pudding’ as poor folks food… it can be so much more… it can be fabulous! Here is our recipe for a bread pudding made with raisins and blueberries, sour dough bread with a few muffins and topped with a glazed almond crunchy topping and a superb honey and brandy liquor sauce!
