Recipe of the Week - Bread Pudding

I thought I would mix things up a little this week and post a dessert recipe! I know I tend to post a lot of entree recipes, so here it goes.

Bread Pudding

via www.allrecipes.com

• 10 slices white bread, cut into cubes
• 1/4 cup margarine, melted
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 6 eggs
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups hot milk
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F(190 degrees C)
2. In a large bowl, combine bread cubes, melted margarine, raisins, and cinnamon; mix well, and transfer to a 2 quart baking dish.
3. Use the same bowl to beat the eggs. Stir in sugar, vanilla, and salt until sugar is dissolved. Slowly whisk in the hot milk. Pour egg mixture over bread cubes, sprinkle with nutmeg, and set aside to soak for 5 minutes.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

 This is great for a breakfast or dessert, I know it was a hit here!  

Enjoy! 

 

Casseroled Lamb Cutlets with Garlic Mash

A very Happy Halloween to you all! Thank you to all of those who have commented in various different ways upon the Halloween recipe suggestion I shared on this blog a few days ago, my Fiendishly Hot, Gruesomely Garlicky, Halloween Ghoulash. I hope that you have had a chance to try it out for yourself, or are perhaps doing so tonight, and that you enjoy it every bit as much as I did. Today's recipe is another one featuring garlic, to help keep those Halloween vampires at bay, but in a considerably more subtle fashion than its predecessor...

Ingredients per Person

3 small lamb cutlets
1 small white onion
1 small carrot
2 medium potatoes
1 pint of fresh chicken stock
Pinch of dried mint
1 clove of garlic
2 tbsp frozen peas

Method

Put your oven on to preheat to 325F/170C/Gas Mark 3. Peel the onion and quarter it and scrape and roughly chop the carrot. Add them to a large casserole dish and lay the lamb cutlets on top. Scatter the mint over the lamb and pour over the (heated) chicken stock. Put the lid on the dish and place it in the oven for one and a half hours.

The potatoes should be peeled, roughly chopped and put on to a high heat in some cold water around half an hour before the lamb is due to come out of the oven. When the water begins to boil, the heat should be reduced to let it simmer until the lamb is ready. The lamb should be removed from the oven and the potatoes drained. The garlic clove should be peeled and grated before being added to the potatoes with around a tablespoon of the lamb stock. The potatoes should be mashed, spooned on to a plate and arranged in a mound to support the lamb cutlets as shown.

The frozen peas take only two to three minutes to cook in boiling water and should be started when the lamb and potatoes are ready and being arranged for the plate. The lamb cutlets should be gently leaned against the mashed potato and the peas arranged alongside. Some of the carrot and onion from the lamb stock can be added as additional garnish if desired.

Great Christmas Gift Ideas for Cooks 2010: Amazon Kindle and Cookbooks

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The Amazon Kindle is a hand held, electronic reading device. It allows books to be bought, stored electronically and read at the owner's convnenience, wherever they happen to be. Why not, therefore, help the cook in your life start bringing their cookbook collection in to the twenty-first century with an Amazon Kindle, or - for those who already have one - some cookbooks to be stored on the device. This will allow them access to all their favourite recipes at the touch of a few buttons and eliminate what can be frustrating and possibly unsuccessful searching through endless books for a desired preparation.



Below are but a couple of samples of the cookbook e-books which are now available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Clicking on any of them for further information will allow you to make a purchase, or browse the relevant Amazon Kindle store for more options and ideas.