Aug. 5th, 2010

ilanarama: me in Escalante (yatta!)
For [personal profile] whatistigerbalm, who wanted to know about bread pudding, and anyone else who is into the OM NOM NOM NOM.

Yesterday I made chai ice cream according to this recipe, which is basically this recipe from SimplyRecipes with less sugar (which seemed just right to me). I used a combination of Republic of Tea's Irish Breakfast and plain old Lipton's decaf for the tea. Pretty tasty, although the spices were too subtle for my taste. Next time I make it... )

I was going to just have the ice cream for dessert last night, but I was craving something more carbo-y, so I decided to make bread pudding, too, and have it a la mode. We have an awesome local artisan bakery and I buy their bread unsliced; whenever I get to the weird ends of the loaves I stick them in the freezer for bread pudding. Which I love. (In fact the only thing I didn't like about Connie Willis's Bellwether, which I recently read and loved immensely, was that the heroine didn't like bread pudding! Hmmpht.)

Bread pudding is like French toast (which I also love), only desserty instead of breakfasty. (Although, um, I had some leftover bread pudding for breakfast, with a dollop of yogurt and maple syrup, which considering that I go for the full-fat Greek honey yogurt, probably not all that different, nutritionally, from my dessert portion with ice cream.) The recipe I use is based on this bread pudding recipe from SimplyRecipes (which has a photo that makes me drool) which I modified to make 2 large servings (or if you're going to put ice cream on it, 3 small ones; or you can be a BIG PIG and eat it all yourself, not that I have done that...more than once or twice) as follows: )

I swear I don't just eat desserts. Today was a chilly, rainy morning, so I made kitchen-sink soup for lunch, this version consisting of onion, garlic, potatoes, lentils, the last of the scaly urchin mushrooms we collected on Saturday, and various spices: cumin, sage, thyme, and a whole lot of black pepper. I blenderized about a quarter of it and mixed it all up and had it for lunch along with a small glass of port, because there is something about lentil soup and port, and besides, I needed it for medicinal purposes (aka That Time of Month). Seriously awesome.

Hey, guess what? It's almost time for dinner!

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