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Bread Pudding Recipe

Bread pudding

You’ll need:

one 14oz. can condensed milk.
vanilla extract, 1 tsp.
3-4 eggs
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 ripe bananas, sliced into coins
handful of raisins
any stale bread you have lying around (I had half loaf of Italian sesame bread which resulted in a salty nutty/sweet flavor combo)
butter to grease baking dish

1. Grease baking dish with butter.
2. Cut bread into cubes.
3. Beat together condensed milk, vanilla, eggs and salt in bowl.
4. Arrange bread in baking dish in one layer, sprinkle some raisins, then layer on the bananas. Ladle some egg mixture over the first layer.
5. Repeat with another layer of bread, raisins and banana, and soak with the rest of egg mixture.
6. Cover dish with foil and bake for 30-40 minutes in a 350°F oven.

Variations:
Use any fresh fruit in season.
Any dried fruit besides raisins would work nicely.
Dashes of spice of choice: cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ground ginger.

White Trash Cooking

Two recipes. Yay.

Starburst Pie
Take a package of orange flavored Jello. Prepare jello according to directions. Blend in 8 oz. of sour cream. Pour into prepared graham cracker pie crust and chill until set. Decorate with sliced strawberries, kiwis, and bananas.

Pasta salad
8 ounces pasta (bowtie, spirals, orecchiette, wagon wheels, or cavatelli)
2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
Italian-style salad dressing to taste

Cook pasta according to package directions. While the pasta is cooking, put frozen vegetables in a colander. When the pasta is done, pour over vegetables in colander and rinse with cool water. Drain well. Put pasta and vegetables in a big bowl, toss in salad dressing to taste.

If you’re feeling fancy and extravagant, you can also throw in some olives and/or tuna.

Dulce de leche cortada

Ah, something I haven’t seen before. Dulce de leche cortada, an unusual looking dessert originating from the Dominican Republic.

After spying on those lumps of brown milk curds in their clear deli containers through the front glass of the Dominican luncheon place on my way to get lunch from the pizza joint next door, I went in and brought a box.

Chewy in texture, cortada tastes like caramel-flavored cottage cheese with the warmth of cinnamon and cloves, and a slight tang from the lemon juice. Not bad. I’d eat it again. Some people remarked that I’m like the Andrew Zimmern of the office.