Bread Pudding 2

Well,  the difference was the bread.  Take your Italian bread and slice it long ways and place in oven while your oven is heating up to 350.  It was yummy.  I'm happy with the recipe now.  If you like banana's foster then add sliced bananas and some banana liquor.  You can also add rasians, toasted coconut, or pecans.  Top with homemade caramel sauce and ice cream.  Just use this recipe as a beginning and add as you want!

Bread Pudding

4 cups toasted Italian bread

5 eggs

2 cups heavy cream

2 cups sugar

1 tsp cinniamon

Toast sliced bread while you mix the rest of the ingredients.  Let bread soak in custard for 10 min before pouring in a greased 9x13 dish.  Bake at 350 uncovered 25 min and covered for 10-15 min until set.  Serve warm over ice cream and topped with caramel sauce.

Caramel Sauce

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

4 tbsp flour

1 cup boiling water

dash salt

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp cream

vanilla, to taste

Mix sugar with flour in suacepan; blend well.  Add water and salt.  Stir while cooking for 6-8 min.  If too thick add a little more water.  Remove from heat; stir in butter, cream, and vanilla to taste.

Bread Pudding

Well, I have a new quest.....Bread Pudding.  I had some when we were in Destin.  It was fine.  It had icecream, then bread pudding, topped with whipcream!  Yum Yum.... the pudding was hot so it started melting the ice cream and made a sauce for the pudding.  I tried today with hotdog buns.  I have used hotdog buns to cake donuts.  To me, the hotdog buns are too soft and don't leave the end result with the right texture.  Too gummy.  Right now the cake donut one is my fav so far, but I'm trying french bread next.  I did some research and some say let it get stale and some say don't.  The liquid is pretty simple.  It depends on the amout you want to make.  Say for a 9x9 dish it would be 3eggs, 1cup sugar, 1 cup heavy cream or milk, cinniamon and vanilla.  Mix and pour over bread.  For a 13x9 it would be 5 eggs, 2 cup sugar, 2 cups milk or cream, cinniamon and vanilla.  There seems to be an infinite way to make it from the bread to different toppings.  The one constant is the custard but you can add to this also. So, the quest begins.......

Shrimp & Cream over Pasta

Rob has been wanting crawfish fettucine.  I began to looking for a recipe and came across this one.  Its a recipe of my fav....Emeril.  You can use any style pasta and either shrimp or crawfish.  There isn't any "special" ingredients that you probably wouldn't already have in your pantry.  I adapted it alittle, so I'm giving the one that I used instead of his original.  You can find it at http://www.foodnetwork.com/ and search Crawfish and Cream over Pasta.  Hope you enjoy, we did!

1 lb angel hair pasta

6 tbsp butter

1/2 cup chopped onions

1 tbsp minced garlic

2 tsp Essence, recipe follows,

or bought Essence

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp cayenne

2 cups heavy creme

2 tbsp lemon juice

1 lb crawfish tails/shrimp

2 tbsp parsley

grated parmesan

Cook pasta to al dente in salted water and set aside.  Leave to finish cooking in the water while you cook your sauce. 

In a large saute pan, melt butter and add onions and cook, stirring, until soft.  Add garlic, Essence, salt, and cayenne, and cook, stirring for 1 minute.  Add cream, lemon juice and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly reduced.  Add crawfish or shrimp and cook, stirring, to heat through and cook shrimp.  Add parsley and thoroughly drained pasta and toss to coat.  Top with cheese. 

Emeril's Essence Creole Seasoning

2 1/2 tbsp paprika

2 tbsp salt

2 tbsp garlic powder

1 tbsp black pepper

1 tbsp onion powder

1 tbsp cayenne pepper

1 tbsp dried oregano

1 tbsp dried thyme

Combine all ingredients thoroughly.

Yeild 2/3 cup

Bang Bang Shrimp from Bonefish Grill

Well, there are 2 appetizers at Bonefish that we love.  They are Tuna Sushimi and Bang Bang Shrimp.  Well, Rob is the one who loves the tuna and we both love the shrimp.  I decided to find out how to make the Bang Bang sauce.  I searched several sites and found where you can buy readymade sauce.  I also found a recipe for it.  So today, I fried shrimp and we tossed them with the sauce.  Mmmmm good.  It was delicious!  I still want to try to make the sauce from scratch to see if it is as good.  Here's the recipe:

1 lb shelled and butterflied shrimp

SR flour

Buttermilk

Creole seasoning

Salt

Bang Bang Sauce*

Heat oil to 350.  Salt shrimp and season flour.  Dredge shrimp in flour, shake off excess, dip in buttermilk, and back into flour.  Fry until light golden brown.  Let drain on paper towels.  Place fried shrimp in a large bowl and toss with Bang Bang Sauce.  Serve immediately!

Tuna Shashimi recipe will come later......(it's good and easy)

*Dinni's Select

Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits part 2

Well, I have it!  They have the texture and taste that I want.  I'm happy now that I don't have to keep trying recipes, because you know when you make them then you have to taste them.

2 1/2 cup AP White Lily Flour

1tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2/3 cup milk

1/3 cup canola oil

wax paper

 

Preheat oven at 475.  Sift together first 3 ingredients.  Stir in milk and oil with a fork til dough leaves the sides of the bowl and forms a ball.  Turn dough out onto lightly floured wax paper.  Knead 4 times and pat out into a 1/2 in thick oval.  Cut with a 2 inch round cutter, reroll scraps as needed.  Place 3/4 in apart on parchemtn lined pan.  Bake for 8 minutes or until lightly brown.  In my oven it takes 8 minutes, may take less or more depending on your oven.

Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits

The biscuits on the right are made from the recipe on the White Lily AP flour.  The ones on the left are from my mother-in-law's recipe.  They are the ones I like best so far.  Still not there yet.  I will probably start working with this recipe to get them just right.  This is the recipe:

1 cp SR flour

1/4 cp Canola oil

Buttermilk

The amount of buttermilk is questionable now about 1/4 to 1/3 cup I think.