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  • Bread Pudding

    Bread Pudding

    Bread pudding

    6 eggs
    1 cup sour cream
    1 tsp cardamom
    1 tsp cinnamon
    1 tsp nutmeg
    1 tsp garam masala
    1/2 tsp salt
    1/4 cup brown sugar
    15 slices bread (croissants, texas toast, raisin bread). Many recipes recommend removing crust, but I like the crusts.

    Combine eggs, cream and spices beat well. Dip bread slices and add to buttered baking dish.
    Top first layer with sprinkle of brown sugar and another layer of dipped bread and sprinkle remaining brown sugar on top. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.

    Serve with powdered sugar or maple syrup or butterscotch or carmel sauce or chocolate sauce.
    Serve with Crispy Bacon, Hot Black Coffee with Whipped Cream! Enjoy your treat!

  • Mother’s Day Brunch – Croque Madame

    Mother’s Day Brunch – Croque Madame

    Mother’s Day Brunch Menu

    Croque Madame
    Bacon Caeser Salad
    Strawberries and Pineapple Slice Skewers

    Blood Orange Mimosas
    Coffee with Bailey’s Irish Cream

    Blood Orange Mimosa

    Croque Madame
    My sons both agreed this tastes like a french toast, ham and cheese, eggs benedict sandwich; which of course it is.

    Serves 10 (Leftovers are a good thing. These sandwiches are great cold!)

    Step One – Make the french toast.
    20 slices Texas Toast Bread – the thick stuff
    6 eggs beaten
    2 cups milk
    1 tsp cinnamon
    1 tsp nutmeg
    1 tsp ground cardamom
    Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Using two baking sheets, melt butter on the pans.
    Soak each slice of bread and place on the warm baking sheet. When the bottoms brown, turn the bread over to brown the other sides. Remove from oven, go to step two.

    Step Two -Assemble the sandwich
    8 ounces grated 4 Mexican blend cheese
    1-1/2 pounds ham -Tear ham into pieces on top of 4 cheese blend
    Top ham with brown sugar glaze, about 1 tsp per sandwich
    8 ounces Guyere Cheese. Top with Grated cheese Guyere
    On the top slice of french toast spread
    1/2 tsp orange marmalade
    1/4 tsp brown mustard
    Place on top and put the whole sandwiches back on the baking pan and into the oven until the cheese has melted. While the cheese is melting, go to step three.

    Step Three:
    Bechemel Sauce
    1/4 cup butter melted in sauce pan
    1/4 cup flour and wisk while it cooks. This should be a white sauce, so do not brown the flour.
    Add two cups milk wisking to blend.
    Add 1 cup grated greyere cheese

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    Step Four: Fry the eggs
    As the egg are done, add each one to the top of a sandwich to keep warm until all the eggs are fried. Serve immediately topping with 1-2 tablespoons of bechemel sauce.

    Serve along side the Bacon Caesar Salad.

  • Best French Toast, Ever

    Best French Toast, Ever

    Blueberry and Blackberry Sauce

    This is a breakfast fit for a King, I mean husband.  Serve my wonderful daughter breakfast in bed.  She woke up happy.    Adapted from Robert Quarry’s recipe book “Simply Wonderful Recipes for Wonderfully Simple Foods”.  Dennis came across a few cookbooks at an auction, and I love this guy’s book.  It is wonderful little paperback.

    8-12 slices thick bread – 1 inch thick, Texas Toast

    4 eggs beaten

    1 cup half and half

    1/4 tsp salt

    1/2 tsp nutmeg

    1/2 tsp cinnamon

    1/2 tsp cardamom

    1/2 tsp real vanilla extract

    Butter or margarine

    Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Beat eggs and seasonings and half and half together.

    Dip bread slices in egg mixture and place in glass baking dish.  Pour remaining egg mixture over bread and allow to absorb all.

    Fry bread slices in butter until golden brown turning only once. Drain on paper towels.  Then place in baking dish in 400 degree oven and allow to puff up, about 5 minutes. 

    If needed drain again on paper towels.

    Serve immediately with powdered sugar and one or more of the following sauce toppings.  

    Butter Pecan Topping

    ½ cup butter
    ½ cup brown sugar
    1 tsp vanilla
    1 cup chopped pecans
    Extra halves for garnishing

    Combine all ingredients in saucepan until melted together. Serve over French Toast. 

    Raspberry Coulis

    1 cup raspberries

    1/2 lemon juice

    powdered sugar to taste

    Blend until smooth, then drizzle on top of french toast. If you do not like seeds, don’t forget to strain.

    Or

    Blueberry and Blackberry Sauce

    3 T balsalmic vinegar

    1 cup blueberries

    1/2 cup blackberries

    1/2 cup brown sugar

    1/2 cup maple syrup

    juice of 2 lemons

    2 T butter

    Mix together in a saucepan, allow to simmer to reduce. This sauce will thicken as it cools.  Remove from heat and add the butter.

    Or

    Chocolate Sauce:  Drizzle a small amount of Chocolate Sauce over the french toast.

    Your guests can choose their own toppings:  Butter Pecan, Raspberry Coulis, Blueberry/Blackberry Sauce and/or Chocolate Sauce.  They will feel they have died and gone to heaven. 

    Don’t forget to serve with bacon and hot coffee.

    This makes a wonderful Valentine’s Day Brunch or Mother’s Day Brunch.