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innocent_man has this thing wherein he recreates the TV show Chopped on Food Network. He does this by having nearby people pick four random foodstuffs, and then improvising dinner around them. Most recently he worked with a sort of golden ale, millet, onions, and blueberry-lime jam. The results were amazing, as his always are.
Afterward, Teagan asked if we could do Chopped dessert. Sarah, who was over for the evening, got roped into it as an assistant. She does not cook, however. Matt then went and picked ingredients with Teagan: limes, raspberry jam, and jelly bellies (courtesy of Teagan).* Teagan's solution was to get marshmallow fluff, put jelly beans in it, some sprinkles, and a bit of lime juice over the top. She reports that it was quite tasty. I could not eat that, though, as I would die of sugar shock, so I came over to help make an alternative.
We had leftover dried bread for stuffing from Thanksgiving, so I decided to make a bread pudding. I combined 4 eggs, milk, 1/2 cup sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl and whisked that together. Sarah buttered a square baking dish and put the dried bread and some dried cranberries in it. I then poured the egg mixture over the bread and added a bit more milk, as it didn't seem there was enough liquid. We dotted the top with some margarine (damn you, lactose intolerance) and baked it at 350 for 30 minutes.
I then went over to the stove and got a saucepan out. I melted some margarine, added sugar and stirred until it dissolved, then put in the juice of two limes, a tablespoon of raspberry jam, a pinch of salt, about 1/4 tsp of ginger, a generous splash of key lime rum from the alcohol cupboard, and about a teaspoon of vanilla to round out the flavor. I let that simmer and reduce down a bit, stirring frequently.
When the pudding was done, it had a nice color on the top and was cooked through. Sarah dished it up, I spooned a generous bit of sauce over it, and voila! Vanilla and cranberry bread pudding with lime-raspberry and rum sauce. Not too bad for making it up as I went, really. Whew. It really was good, though.
*Yes, I left out the assorted jelly bellies. My tolerance for this game only goes so far, and I could not fathom what to do with them, other than put them in along with the cranberries, and just... ugh. :P Sue me. :)
innocent_man has this thing wherein he recreates the TV show Chopped on Food Network. He does this by having nearby people pick four random foodstuffs, and then improvising dinner around them. Most recently he worked with a sort of golden ale, millet, onions, and blueberry-lime jam. The results were amazing, as his always are. Afterward, Teagan asked if we could do Chopped dessert. Sarah, who was over for the evening, got roped into it as an assistant. She does not cook, however. Matt then went and picked ingredients with Teagan: limes, raspberry jam, and jelly bellies (courtesy of Teagan).* Teagan's solution was to get marshmallow fluff, put jelly beans in it, some sprinkles, and a bit of lime juice over the top. She reports that it was quite tasty. I could not eat that, though, as I would die of sugar shock, so I came over to help make an alternative.
We had leftover dried bread for stuffing from Thanksgiving, so I decided to make a bread pudding. I combined 4 eggs, milk, 1/2 cup sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl and whisked that together. Sarah buttered a square baking dish and put the dried bread and some dried cranberries in it. I then poured the egg mixture over the bread and added a bit more milk, as it didn't seem there was enough liquid. We dotted the top with some margarine (damn you, lactose intolerance) and baked it at 350 for 30 minutes.
I then went over to the stove and got a saucepan out. I melted some margarine, added sugar and stirred until it dissolved, then put in the juice of two limes, a tablespoon of raspberry jam, a pinch of salt, about 1/4 tsp of ginger, a generous splash of key lime rum from the alcohol cupboard, and about a teaspoon of vanilla to round out the flavor. I let that simmer and reduce down a bit, stirring frequently.
When the pudding was done, it had a nice color on the top and was cooked through. Sarah dished it up, I spooned a generous bit of sauce over it, and voila! Vanilla and cranberry bread pudding with lime-raspberry and rum sauce. Not too bad for making it up as I went, really. Whew. It really was good, though.
*Yes, I left out the assorted jelly bellies. My tolerance for this game only goes so far, and I could not fathom what to do with them, other than put them in along with the cranberries, and just... ugh. :P Sue me. :)
