OT Perfect comfort food??

DH thinks cold rainy weather is pancake weather. He used to make the pancakes, big plain ones, which we would eat with savoury mince, or lemon or cinnamon and sugar.

We Brits don't usually make bread pudding the American way. It's a poor man's pudding, made with bread and butter, milk and sugar. If you can you put in sultanas and/or egg, but it isn't necessary.

I had an African maid once, to whom I gave some I'd made, and told her how to make it. A couple of weeks later I asked her if she ever made it at home. She said she made it every Sunday. I asked if she had shown her friends how to make it, and she replied "Oh, no, I don't want them all to make what I make!"

Joyce in RSA.

Home-made steamed steak & kidney pudding (suet pastry) with mashed potato (milk & butter) and lots of very thick gravy.

If I weren't teetering on the edge of a sinus infection, I'd be thinking hard about a large dish of baked mac and cheese - from scratch. Right now some really good chicken soup or beef stew sounds really good.

Yum!

Cheryl

It's only just started here - the power went about 7:30ish and returned three hours later. I had those snow tires put on last Tuesday so I figure I shall try them out today and go and attend the bridge club Xmas party. There will be all sorts of treats there, I am taking some Onion Tart, made in the French method, it was from Alsace Lorraine and was the forerunner to Quiche Lorraine.

I soak raisins for bread pudding in rum overnight lol

I used to make that regularly when David was alive but now I make it once a year for an old Brit friend and sometimes my kids will ask for it. I really rather prefer it the next day, fried up lol

For me it's any of the above or in a pinch any kind of pasta.

Lucille

Mine is grilled cheese and tomato soup.

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The roads look clear now, Sheena, so driving shouldn't be a problem.

That Onion Tart sounds interesting! When you have time could you share the recipe? I must remember the rum soaked raisins when I next make bread pudding! :)

Mavia

It's as good as there ! The raisins add a little zing lol

"needler" wrote>>

I saw a nice presentation recently where the grilled cheese sandwich was cut up into many little squares and used as croutons floating on the tomato soup. Struck me as really indulgent and lazy and something I want someone to do for me next time I have a cold.

Dawne

well, I don't make mine the American way either--note the very Canadian maple syrup (VBG). Actually, the basic recipe here is much as you say--bread and butter, milk and sugar, usually an egg--all to use up bread going stale. But I like to use this nice cinnamon raisin bread I pick up at half price sometimes. I was going to say day old, but who knows how long bread sits in the store before it is marked down!! And I happened to have picked up some table cream, also half price--so indulged. I have made it with plain bread made into jam or marmalade sandwiches, then cut up. And once I made a really decadent one which had cubes of almond paste , stale croissants and frozen raspberries, which I am told was a Danish recipe.

Funny how much we have fancified some of the old reliables (e.g. macaroni baked with 5 cheeses, instead of the last part of the block of Cheddar that was starting to get hard), and how good the old reliables are all by themselves.

Dawne

It's cold and blowy here today, fire in the wood burning stove is going, and it's starting to snow in the mountains.....so, I made some tomato soup with rice - one of my faves :)

MelissaD

That's the beauty of bread pudding - it can be made from any kind of left-overs. I once used a new recipe to make a honey cake, which turned out to be very tough. I made BP with it, and it was enjoyed by the whole family. I've used all kinds of stale bread, buns, etc. at different times. I've never tried it with jam or marmalade sandwiches, though. It's an ides!

Pancakes are another good use for left-overs, especially sour milk and cream.

Joyce in RSA.

Potato soup and cornbread!! Made some this past week and enjoyed every bite!!

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

Funny thing - last night I was using stale bread to make bread crumbs for upcoming meals. I had bought a roasted garlic loaf to have with pasta but something came up and we were scattered the whole last half of the week.

Cheryl

I often use stale leftover Tannenbaum Brot to make a bread pudding on Little Christmas (Jan. 6), It looks almost jewel like with the candied fruit in it.

Bobbie V.

"Dawne Peterson" wrote in news:dqSdnSwPHoLStIbWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@posted.sasktel:

I grew up in New Hampshire and just made a batch of one of my comfort foods-baked beans. I never eat the store canned beans, they are too high in salt and sugar and they just don't taste right.

Keith Barber