Bread Pudding

Over the holidays I bought two pints of heavy cream to make the bread pudding in the Martha Stewart cookbook, and then somehow we used one of the pints--I confess a spoonfull of heavy cream makes the cereal positively heavenly.

Anyhow, today I noticed the remaining pint was one week past the date, and of course we had not enough bread in the house to make bread pudding because we are always on these freaking diets (never mind the cream on the cereal), so I ran into Shaw's and bought a loaf of challah bread, remembering, incorrectly as it turned out, that one made various b.p. recipes with challah bread. It cost $4.99. Who knew?

So home to the kitchen, and none of the recipes called for challah, and the one I found I might have used wanted 12 egg yolks! No way, Jose.

So I went to the web and typed challah bread and heavy cream into google and lo, some recipes appeared. I picked the second, because that only called for 4 egg yolks. It also called for dried sour cherries, which I happened to have, and looked pretty good.

We had fruit salad for dessert, which in my book doesn't really count. I made a nice ham and broccoli gratin, heavy on broccoli and easy on ham, so feeling virtuous nevermind the mornay sauce that it was slathered with.

The bread pudding went together quickly, and naturally we had to try a corner, just to make sure it was fit to eat and it was. The cream was still good and there's enough to pour over the pudding and really crater the diets. Ah well.

We watched Mr. Bean tonight, a mildly amusing movie, worth about the $3.99 we paid on demand. Have signed up for Netflix but were between movies with them.