More Weekend Gratitude, This Time in Pictures with a Recipe for Bread Pudding

Dear friends,

Our weekend in pictures,

January 29-30, 2011

(plus a recipe for bread pudding at the bottom)

                                        For freshly potted
                          pansies and snapdragons

For freshly cleaned back porches,

Father we thank Thee!

                              For an interesting bug,

And for a sketch by a creative son,

Father, we thank Thee!

For a going away party before

a Grand Adventure to Italy

for Rachel and Joanna,

  

For send off prayers by a big sister and parents and friends,

Father, we thank Thee!

                             For Sunday morning cirrus clouds

                         And Sunday morning worship

                  with a church meeting in a school building

                             Father, we thank Thee!

               For a small family reunion at our house

With sisters-in-law and nieces

and aunt and uncle

and cousins on couches

For chocolate cake, bread pudding,

oatmeal cookies with Milk Duds on top

grapes, apples, oranges, & bananas,

lemon blueberry muffins

cheese and crackers

and broccoli with dip

and even more

Father, we thank Thee!

              For a birthday girl to blow out candles

                            (a week early, #20)

                       and my silly daughters who will
                  teach English in Chiavari, Italy 

                for three months starting this week

           For a grandson to cuddle and learn to crawl,
                              Father, we thank Thee!

                              For a sunset sky,
                         and all that is lovely in life,
                            Father, we thank Thee!

(And with thanks to whomever wrote the original poem

"Father, We Thank Thee"

which is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.)

And now for the bread pudding recipe...

Thad's cousin Debbie Knispel brought

a delicious bread pudding,

which everyone raves about.

She gave me the recipe from memory -

easy to do since she's made it for years!

Bread Pudding

Blend together:

4 eggs beat until lemon colored

1 3/4 cups sugar

1 1/2 sticks of butter, melted

1tsp vanilla

3/4 tsp nutmeg

1tsp cinnamon

Mix in:

1 cup milk

1 cup heavy cream

(or 1 pint half & half instead of the milk and cream)

Add:

6 cups cubes of any kind of bread (day old is fine!)

Optional: raisins, nuts, etc.

Bake:
in greased loaf pan at 325 for 35 minutes

then raise to 425 and bake for 15 more minutes

Cool:

for 15 minutes,

then loosen and invert on plate to slice and serve.

Enjoy!

Blessings,

Virginia Knowles

http://www.virginiaknowles.blogspot.com/