In the Kitchen: Happy Easter!

We had a very simple Easter this year.  Graham's parents were out of town, so we had just my parents over for dinner.  We made some delicious food that I thought I would share.  I worked on the soup and dessert and Graham made the main course.  We had filet mignon with a shallot cream sauce and pan-fried squash.  I made a potato soup (recipe to follow in a separate post) and a butterscotch bread pudding for dessert.

That bread pudding was absolutely delicious.  I had never tried bread pudding before I met Graham, I thought it sounded gross.  It is mushy bread, but it is oh so tasty and now I am hooked.  I used this recipe I found on allrecipes.com.

Ingredients

• 1 (10.75 ounce) loaf day-old bread, torn into small pieces
• 4 cups milk
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup butterscotch chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. In a large bowl, combine bread, milk, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and butterscotch chips; mixture should be the consistency of oatmeal. Pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven 1 hour, until nearly set. (It should have a "thigh wiggle" or wiggle as much as a well endowed thigh.) Serve warm or cold.

I had to change the recipe a little when we made it because we didn't have enough brown sugar, so I ended up using about 3/4 cup brown sugar and about 1/2 cup Sugar in the Raw.  We also soaked our bread (we used french bread, that we staled in the oven for a bit) in the milk for about a half of an hour before we baked it all.  Graham was really disgusted by the mention in the recipe about wiggling like a well endowed thigh, but I did poke it and it definitely wiggled!