Asparagus Bread Pudding - it's not a dessert

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Mar 31st 2007 @ 2:02PM

I used to hate bread pudding. It was just a bored, budget-minded housewife's way of passing off stale bread as dessert. Then I met a bread pudding that changed my mind and ever since, I've been a big fan. Huge.

But bread pudding isn't just for dessert, as per Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks, who made a savory bread pudding using Spring's springy-est of vegetables, asparagus. Heidi used a mix of sourdough and walnut breads, and though recipes for bread pudding usually say "stale" bread, that doesn't give you license to use rock hard bread that you bought two weeks ago. Use bread that you've let dry overnight, or as Heidi did, left out for a day or two.

Filed Under: On the Blogs, Ingredients
Tags: america, asparagus, bread pudding, comfort food, dinner, grains, lunch, vegetables, west coast

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4-03-2007 @6:25PM Ima Wurdibitsch said... I don't care for most bread puddings because I don't care for raisins very much. I took a basic bread pudding recipe and modified it. Instead of raisins, I used dried cranberries and soaked them in a tiny bit of amaretto. Then, to finish the dessert, I made an amaretto sauce instead of the traditional rum.

I get requests for it all the time now.
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