Bread Puddin'

  Hangin' With The Hendersons

"Having a place to go - is a home.  Having someone to love - is a family.  Having both - is a blessing." 

This weekend was jammed packed with good company, beautiful surroundings, and delicious {I mean... DELICIOUS} food.

 The River City Brewing Co. is located on the riverside of Jacksonville, and although I didn't get the chance to capture our view, let me just say it was beautiful. The stormy clouds subsided once we got our appetizers, and from then on... the day couldn't have been nicer.

THIS, below, would be RCBC's version of Bread Pudding. Crazy thing, this little dessert. It takes one of the most essential staples of American History and transforms it into a melt-in-your-mouth explosion of, well, childhood.

Okay, so we accompanied it with a glass of Brut... maybe not LITERAL childhood, but man... I'm not sure how many of you have actually tried this delectable dessert, but if you haven't, you must. It has been a part of my family for years, as well as the Henderson's, and the conversation piece it ended up making of itself was one of heart warming memories and consisted mostly of "mmm" and "oh, that's good." 

There is no fixed recipe, but it is usually made using stale {yes, you now have something to do with it} bread, staple ingredients such as milk, egg, sugar, dried fruit and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, apple pie spice, and vanilla.

{You may also booze it up if you'd like, and add a whiskey or rum caramel sauce}

 The bread is soaked in the liquids, mixed with the other ingredients, and baked... to a cloud of

PERFECTION.

Warm, gooey, heart warming, nerve relaxing, I-could-totally-eat-it-for-breakfast

PERFECTION.

What's your most delicious memory from childhood? I'd love to try to whip up your versions and share them, too!

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