Choice Morsels

For Good Eating today, I have another one of my favorite "oven meal" desserts that I mentioned in a Mama Kat prompt a couple Thursdays ago on the topic of "Favorite Meals Growing Up." What's good about this recipe is it just uses bread, eggs, milk, raisins, vanilla and a little sugar & spice. Simple, easy and fairly nutritious. Chilled & cut into bars, it makes a great snack you can pick-up and eat with your fingers. For bread you want day-old bread. My Mother would save bread leftovers in the freezer and when there was enough, she used that for bread pudding. Use whole-grain, wheat, white or a combo of bread---but avoid Rye.  You'll want your bread cubes dry, so cut enough bread to make 4 cups of cubes and spread on cookie tray to dry over-night. Then put in large bowl to prepare. Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding       Ingredients: 4 cups Stale Bread, cut or torn into small pieces 4 cups Milk, scalded 1 - 2 cups Raisins 4 Eggs, we...

Welcome to the first week of February! It's supposed to be 31 degrees tonight, so after cleaning up the front walk beds, I went around covering various things that either are blooming, about to bloom or that have sensitive leaf buds, like my hydrangea's.  I picked all the yellow daffodils and brought them inside for a cheerful vase on my counter. For Garden Pic Wednesday this week I have an excellent photo of a pine tree flower! You didn't know pine trees flower?  Well, you'll have to stop back for a look! Today's Good Eating Recipe is a family favorite my Mother used to make often for us as kids: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding! What Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding Looks Like This is just your basic wholesome old fashioned bread pudding made with just eggs, bread, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar & raisins! No sauces to make. Just simple bread pudding. We'd eat it hot with a little evaporated milk poured over the top....