Bread Pudding

This is bread pudding, hold the nuts, substitute raisins for milk choc. chips.  I love love love this stuff.  With a spoon of vanilla ice-cream, it truly is a Christmas Miracle.

Bread Pudding

• 8 cake doughnuts(best, although bread shown below) or white bread with crust cut off (day old, 1" cubes)
• 1 C. milk chocolate chips
• Sprinkle the two of these ingredients together into a 9x9 pan.

• 1/4 C. butter (room temp)
• 2-3 eggs (depending on size)
• 1/2 C. superfine sugar (sometimes called Baker's Sugar)
• 1/2 t. vanilla
• 2 shakes ground cinnamon
• 2 shakes ground nutmeg
• 1 shake ground clove
• 1 C. heavy cream
• Beat the above 8 ingredients together briefly and pour over bread/chip mixture.
• Let soak at room temp 10 min.
• Bake covered at 350F for 30-35 min.
• Bake uncovered at 350F for another 10 min.
• Serve with vanilla bean ice cream

My recipe was included in this recipe blogger's sweet link!:  Lisa's Sweet Treat's Link

Split Pea Soup

Nothin' to it.

Recipe - if you can even call it that:

1. Buy a bag of split peas.  
2. Bring to a boil with 10 cups of water.  
3. Add ham hock and seasonings (I like cumin, celery salt, salt, pepper and nutmeg) and simmer for 1-4 hours.  
4. Remove ham hock and tear off little bits of ham adding them back into the pot.
5. Serve.  Store.  Etc.