A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I start the day and end the season with an all-local breakfast of Indian pudding and [...]
Archive for the ‘Bread pudding’ Category
Dark Days 20 Breakfast Challenge: Indian Pudding
Posted in Bread pudding, Dark Days Challenge, Dessert, tagged Indian pudding on April 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pear and Walnut Bread Pudding
Posted in Bread pudding, Pears, Waste Not Want Not on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m happy when I convert humble scraps into gut-lovin’ glory. And happier when it pleases someone else. A perfect balance of frugality and craving. That’s bread pudding in our household. I’ve cleaned out the pantry and my mate thinks I have made a genius dessert. Way cool, as the kids say. I’ve already posted a [...]
Summer Bread Pudding with Berries
Posted in Apple, Berries, Bread pudding, tagged Summer Bread Pudding on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I found a bowlful of cubed bread on the kitchen counter this morning, a not-so-subtle hint about Sunday breakfast. So I whipped up a summer bread pudding with the first apples of the season and organic blackberries that I picked at our CSA farm. As I’ve said before, I make bread pudding based on proportions [...]
Bread Pudding with Alliums: Leek, Green Garlic, Garlic Scapes and Chives
Posted in Bread pudding, Leeks, tagged Leek and young garlic bread pudding, Savory bread pudding on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, another bread pudding to satisfy my other half’s culinary cravings. A reminder that there’s a chunk of stale bread in the drawer… what can you make of it? Sometimes just crumbs but this week a savory bread pudding, eggy and creamy in texture and chock full of the season’s fresh local alliums, members of [...]
Chocolate Bread Pudding with Lime Custard and Strawberries
Posted in Berries, Bread pudding, Chocolate, Citrus fruit, Paper Chef, tagged Chocolate bread pudding, Lime cream on June 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Paper Chef is back! I’ve been following and sometimes participating in Paper Chef for years. It has been the longest running monthly blog challenge, but recently took a break to re-group. The challenge takes place over the first weekend of each month. Four randomly chosen ingredients are posted on Wednesday and due a week later. [...]
Savory Bread Pudding with Spinach and Mushrooms
Posted in Bread pudding, Breakfast, tagged Savory bread pudding on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Bread pudding is a good dish to have in your repertoire since it works for any meal, including breakfast, and uses up stray ingredients. I had a small hunk of rustic sourdough bread, some leftover cooked spinach and a paper bag full of mushrooms from a local mushroom farmer. Since he’ll be back at the [...]
Rice Custard
Posted in Bread pudding, Dessert, tagged Rice custard on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On popular demand… of all of the ways to make rice ”pudding,” the one my family likes best is an egg custard with a handful of rice and raisins at the bottom. It’s more like custard with rice than the other way around. Smooth, creamy, aromatic, warm comfort food meant for the days when the [...]
Asparagus and Leek Bread Pudding
Posted in Asparagus, Bread pudding, Leeks, tagged Asparagus, Leeks, Savory bread pudding on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had lots of asparagus stems left over from canning pickled asparagus, a couple of fat leeks from the farmers’ market and a hunk of stale bread, so on a ridiculously cold and blustery day in May, bread pudding was not only expedient but comforting. I used my typical formula for bread pudding but decreased [...]
Apple Bread Pudding
Posted in Apple, Bread pudding, tagged Apple, Bread on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shut in again by near blizzard conditions and finished for the day with my “professional work,” I had two basic choices: cook or clean. Now let’s think…. How about cleaning out the pantry a little and cooking a lot? Since I had made bread earlier in the week, there were extra hunks getting stale, plus [...]
Savory Bread Pudding: Roots and Greens
Posted in Bread pudding, Greens, Sweet potato, tagged Bread pudding, Greens, Sweet potato on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, this was simply delicious straight from the oven. I took my basic ”formula” for sweet bread pudding (think apple) and combined it with Thanksgiving leftovers and greens from the end-of-season farm gleaning. Starting from scratch, I might have opted for butternut squash and chard, but what I had on hand were a flavorful medley [...]
