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Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
The making of bread pudding is nearly as old as history.
Bread pudding was a wonderful solution to what to do with a kitchen full of excess breads and cakes! If you take out your copy of the turn of the century “The Epicurean” by Chef Charles Ranhofer and check out recipes for bread pudding, he will suggest grabbing the scraps of cake and such… and that’s all the help he offers!
With all of this talk about gun control, I have to ask this simple question: WHO are we really trying to protect? According to a recent survey of police officers… it seems that if we are really trying to protect people then we should allow law abiding citizens the right to carry.
Speaking of insanity, have you noticed that it is always the places that guns are forbidden that have the most violence. It doesn’t matter if it is a city, a school, a theater or a university ( the latest was a crazy with a knife)… but if someone is looking to hurt others they look for safe, unarmed, soft targets.
So then, who is really being protected when the majority of Americans become disarmed? The answer is quite simple… those with guards and guns.
Beignet is a French style “donut” that characteristically has the taste of buttermilk and ground wheat and rye flours. Cafe du Monde has been making these along with their equally famous coffee for a very long time.
Of course you can enjoy these too far from the French quarter of New Orleans at home… With a little practice and the right ingredients…. Or you can even buy their mix which shortcuts it all for you.
Rolling out the dough, cutting the squares, frying and heavily – very heavily – dusting the donut with powdered sugar is the short steps in this process!
The only thing left is to pour yourself a steaming cup of coffee… And enjoy!
Bon appetite !