A few days ago I came across a loaf of french bread on top of the refridgerator, I think it is only about a week or so old, because I had asked Gavin to pick it up when I sent him to the store on Sunday (?), at the time I had every good intention of making garlic bread, but then other things happened and it was forgotten about.
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“Where are you going with the hammer?”
If I had known Gavin wasn’t 100% absorbed in WoW I probably wouldn’t have walked into the office. Suddenly all the colorful graphic action on the 17″ flat panel display was nothing when compared to Wife with Hammer.
“The kitchen.”
“Why?”
“To hit stuff!” (I would’ve thought this was self-explanitory, apparently not.)
It’s been awhile since I got Gavin’s instant undivided attention, but this was a little much. Close on my heels he asked:
“What are you going to hit?”
“Don’t you trust me?”
“I remember how the bookshelves turned out.”
He followed me into the kitchen, still close behind me.
“I’m going to beat the stale bread into submission and make bread pudding.”
“Do I have to eat it?”
“What do you think?”
You would think by now he’s learned to stop asking these sorts of questions.
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1 loaf uber stale french bread -beaten into submission/cut into cubes
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Mom’s New Orleans Style Bread Pudding Recipe
(as dictated to me over the phone, approximately)
preheat oven to 350, boil water
1 loaf uber stale french bread -beaten into submission/cut into cubes
4 cups milk
combine & let soak for 1/2 an hour or so
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 table spoon almond extract
beaten!
1/2 cup raisins (optional whoopee raisins, but I opted not to)
fold eggs/sugar into bread mixture along w/raisins, fold under, but in well buttered baking dish, put dish in larger dish, put boiling water in larger dish, put in oven for an hour or so; careful it will be hot
serve warm w/maple syrup
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FINISHED & WAY too hot to touch
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Emeril Lagasse, from the Food Network has a similar recipe: New Orleans Style Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce
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