Southern Bread Pudding and Jack
Daniels Sauce:
(I've revised this recipe so you can
make it with a little bit less cholesterol and fat.)
Bread
Pudding Ingredients:
1 loaf
French bread, a day or two old and in 1-inch squares
1 quart
skim or 1% milk3 Eggbeater eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup Splenda granulated sugar
1 cup regular sugar
2 tbsp. vanilla
2 cup raisins (better if you soak them overnight in ¼ cup bourbon!)
1 cup chopped pecans
½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. nutmeg
Cooking
spray (I use the type with olive oil)
Preheat
your oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, soak the French bread cubes in the
milk until milk is absorbed. In separate bowl, beat Eggbeaters, Splenda and
sugar, vanilla and spices together. Stir egg mixture into the bread mixture.
Stir in raisins and pecans. Coat the bottom and sides of a 9X13" baking
pan with cooking spray. Pour in bread mixture and bake for 35-45 min. Remove
from oven when the edges start getting brown and pull away from pan edges.
Jack
Daniels Sauce Ingredients:
½ cup
melted butter
½ cup
Splenda granulated sugar½ cup regular sugar
1 Eggbeater egg
1 cup Kentucky bourbon whiskey
In a
saucepan, whisk melted butter, sugar and egg well. Cook over low heat, stirring
constantly until thickens. Don't simmer, or will curdle. Whisk in bourbon and
remove from stove. Whisk before serving and pouring over individual servings of
warm bread pudding.
Yum, yum!
Ghost
Hunting Diary Vol II – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh,
Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
I don’t
much care for my days and nights getting mixed up, but since I won’t take
sleeping pills unless I’m desperate, I hadn’t taken any this night. Being
ghost-sensitive, though, I had realized that the ghosts were fairly active. I’d
heard –and felt – someone several times since I’d settled in the room, and been
aware of various noises in the rest of the house that couldn’t be explained
away as a roaming cat. I’d also encountered the ghost in the bathroom a couple
times: that drop in temperature and the skin-crawl sensation of the energy
surrounding a paranormal entity. Normally, I don’t bother turning on the light
during my nightly bathroom excursions, but due to that fairly strong presence
this night, I did. And I’m not too happy with being watched during what should
be a private time, but I don’t have much choice around here. I won’t call them
pervert ghosts, but the bathroom ones are male.
This is
Author T. M. Simmons talking about her own home, which is haunted, especially
her spare bedroom which she calls the Molly-Belle Suite and which accommodates
her when she can’t sleep and doesn’t want to wake her husband. She normally
gets along with her resident ghosts but that’s only due to her ‘laying down the
house laws’ to them. But now and then they will ‘test’ her to see what they can
get away with.
In Ghost
Hunting Diary Vol. II, T. M. Simmons records some of her experiences in both
the cemetery as well as a few haunted buildings. Some of these experiences
would scare the pants off people like myself yet all are quite interesting and
there are even a few that are quite funny. By funny I’m talking about her
records of the Naked Ghost which she found in the Baker Hotel. And her
description was so that I don’t think I would mind meeting this ‘Adonis’ghost.
But the evil ones she encounters within the Goshen Cemetery I think I’ll pass
on.
If you
enjoy a good ghost story, you’ll enjoy this series of books – Ghost Hunting
Diaries. If you’re a believer, you’ll love these stories. If you’re a
non-believer, they just might change your opinion regarding ghosts, ghost
hunters and the paranormal world. They have made a believer out of me!
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