Grow Lettuce Grow: bread pudding moment of redemption

let's face it, i have totally lost control of this blog. i have lagged so far behind at this point, i can't remember where i left off on some projects, what i haven't talked about, and when i made certain dinners. i was hoping to have a comprehensive journal of the 3-G project with a day to day log of what i was cooking and feeding to ray on the $60 a week budget. just when i was getting going and actually posting a recipe here and there, along came marching band pictures on facebook. so in a small attempt to get caught up, here is a post about one of the few redeeming moments during the last couple of weeks. i think i made this savory bread pudding last sunday. we had about 1/4 loaf of the three cheese bread from the flat rock village bakery left. by this time it was about 5 days old. still pretty good, and i could have made cheese toast with it, but i really wanted to try making a savory bread pudding with some deer meat sausage. and of course, since i was to lazy to look up any kind of recipe, i just shot from the hip and used what i had in the kitchen. it turned out pretty darn good, although i thought it was lacking in something. ray and i agreed that it needed more feta cheese. i had used just the smallest amount that i had left in the kitchen, but next time i will plan ahead and add a nice amount of split creek farm feta cheese. even so, the more the left overs sat in the frig, the tastier it got. i had it for lunch on monday and tuesday, each day getting better and better.

i also took time away from the computer to go for a walk with ray and the pup pups. something that we need to do more of.

borrowing ray's hat for the cold morning walk.

we are so mature.

here is a quick run down of the deer meat savory bread pudding. we'll call it......

hell yeah, deer meat bread pudding

nice pile of garden greens

sun dried tomatoes soaked in olive oil

three cheese herb and garlic bread

1/2 lb. deer meat sausage

salt and pepper

2 eggs

milk

cube stale bread. wash and trim the greens and saute in butter. squeeze out the extra liquid from greens and chop. cut up sun dried tomatoes and cheese. cook ground deer meat sausage. in bowl mix together 2 eggs and about 2 cups milk. season with salt and pepper. mix all ingredients in with the milk and eggs. pour into a buttered casserole dish. press down to make sure all the bread is covered by the milk mixture. bake in a 375 degree oven for 45 minutes to a hour till the top is golden brown and milk mixture has set.