Bagel Bread Pudding and a Weekend Craft Project

Guess What!!! My computer loves me today and I loaded all the pictures!!!! YAY!
I am so glad because I have been dying to show all of you the fun things my husband and I have done this weekend!!!

I made a bread pudding several years ago using an old recipe clipped from a newspaper and made it vegan...But then I bumped it up, by using cinnamon bagels and adding raisins!

This is truly in it to win it!!!! It is so simple, first time bakers can make this and it tastes good cold or hot! Dress it up or down, this is a sure fire hit at parties! My youngest daughter hates bread pudding, but always asks for second on this one. I think it is because it is not goobery like some bread puddings, and the vanilla topping is not as thick as commercial "puddings".

Ingredients:

1 pkg. mini cinnamon bagels, ripped into fourths

1 cup sour soy milk, I use 1 tbls. white vinegar and then add your unsweetened soy milk and swirl around.

4 egg substitutes, I use egg replacer

1 cup rice milk

1 cup sweetener of your choice, I used organic cane sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

Cinnamon to sprinkle over the top

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Preheat oven to 375 degree's.

Mix all your ingredients together and stir to incorporate the milks through the bread. Spread in a 9x13 baking pan and bake for 45 minutes. Cover with sauce.

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Sauce:

1tbls. flour

1 1/2 cups milk

2 tbls. vegan margarine

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

In a small pot combine ingredients and stir until thickened. This does not get really thick it is about the consistency of hollendaise sauce. Pour over Bread pudding and devour!

Close up shots...

So for dinner today and almost every Sunday we like to have a Breakfast buffet of sorts. I make Scrambled tofu, or a tofu frittata, a "meat" like sausage patties of smart bacon, pancakes, or biscuits, sometimes waffles and always two or three fruits.

When I am really crazy I make breakfast pizza or breakfast burritos!

Tonight Chris made biscuits and I whipped up a gravy!

Chris almost never cooks, so this is my husband making biscuits!

He had to work all weekend long, but he finally got to come home this evening and be with us!!!!

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So here is our breakfast buffet:

Biscuits and gravy

Scrambled tofu with mushrooms and "cheesy" sauce

Wedges of Honey tangelo, navel oranges, and red grapefruit

For dessert Bagel bread pudding.

We also had coffee with creamer and Iced tea

Finished bread pudding!!!

Kaiti loves edible flowers so I decorated the tops with some!!! YUM!




Onto the weekend projects!!!!!!!!



I am always finding cool mirrors at Goodwill, our area thrift shop, and they always seem to be painted gold. I have no idea why they are always gold, but bleck....they are not too pretty right now...Can you say make over???

This looks like a wagon wheel right now....lol

Nothing like a little matte black paint to spruce things up!


I found the mirror below about a year ago at Goodwill, it has been in my office hidden in a corner the whole time. I love the decorative pattern on the edges.

Would you believe this is a heavy duty foam? It is!

We could not take the back off of this one to get the mirror out, so Chris fitted some newspaper under the frame!!!

I started the painting project.....

But..... Chris somehow got the can away from me......

and finished it,lol!

The mirror has a twin, and now I just need to find where to hang them!!

This beauty is in the dinning room hanging by my mothers walnut cabinet!



So the Beach house is beginning! I have brought out the shells and begun the decorating for the summer...Finally!

This is some sand Chris and I kyped while visiting Lake Michigan...shhhhh.....don't tell!

Inside is coral from Mexico and some shells Emma brought me back from Florida 4 years ago.

Pretty little aquamarine blue and white shells in a bed of white sand in an antique1940's pedestal bowl sitting on a maple side table in the dining room.

The start of my couch table decor...more later....

You can see where Chris has started the floor project. He has filled in all the cracks in the wood floor and soon we will be sanding...UGH!

My bread bowl, filled with crushed shells and whole shells too...I do not like this look and it will be scrapped tomorrow....thought I would show it though....

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So that was my weekend, I hope you had as much fun as we did!!!