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Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Posted in bread, Breakfast, Captain Cavedweller, Comfort Food, Entertaining at Home, Recipes, tagged , , , , , on January 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

cinnamon bread pudding finished

When I saw a recipe for Cinnamon Bread Pudding, I knew I had to try it.

Captain Cavedweller is a big bread pudding fan and it sounded like the perfect thing to make for Christmas breakfast.

Turns out, it was.

It was fast and easy to assemble the night before and pop in the oven that morning.

cinnamon bread pudding ingredients

Simple ingredients

 

Mix egg, milk and spices until well blended.

Mix egg, milk and spices until well blended.

Make your husband cube the bread while you beat the egg mixture.

Make your husband cube the bread while you beat the egg mixture.

Spread the cubes evenly into a greased baking pan.

Spread the cubes evenly into a greased baking pan. Pour the egg mixture over the top, cover and pop in the fridge overnight.

Heat oven to 350 and bake the bread pudding until golden brown - about 50 minutes.

Heat oven to 350 and bake the bread pudding until golden brown – about 50 minutes.

While the bread is baking, make the syrup - just sugar and water in a heavy saucepan. Stir until dissolved.

While the bread is baking, make the syrup – just sugar and water in a heavy saucepan. Stir until sugar is dissolved.

Continue stirring and bring to a boil, then add maple flavoring. Boil another minute before removing from heat.

Continue stirring and bring to a boil, then add maple flavoring. Boil another minute before removing from heat.

Cut baked bread pudding into slices and serve with warm syrup. It will make your knees wobbly and your stomach very happy.

Cut baked bread pudding into slices and serve with warm syrup. It will make your knees wobbly and your stomach very happy.

 

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

3 cups cubed cinnamon bread

4 eggs

1 3/4 cup milk

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

Syrup

1/2 cup granulated white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup water

1 tsp. maple flavoring

Grease an 8×8 inch baking dish (for a 9×13 dish, double the recipe).

Cut about six slices of bread into cubes. You need enough to fill three cups. Spread evenly in baking dish.

Beat eggs, milk, and spices until well blended. Pour over bead. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Preheat oven to 350.

Uncover baking dish and bake about 50 minutes until the bread is set and the top is golden brown. Cut into squares and serve with warm syrup.

To make the syrup, pour sugars and water into a heavy saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Continue stirring until mixture comes to a boil. Add in maple flavoring and boil another minute. The aroma of the maple at this point will make your mouth water and cause great pangs of hunger to rocket through you.

You can pour the syrup over the bread pudding in the pan if you will be eating it all then or if you want you can individual spoon over pudding on each plate. You can serve with a dollop of whipped cream or sprinkle the top with powdered sugar if so desired.

She Who Will Be Making This Again

 

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Hoover Dam

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Travels, tagged , , , on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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When Captain Cavedweller and I were in Las Vegas, we rented a car one day and drove down to see Hoover Dam.

It was impressive, to say the least.

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We started by hiking up 987 steps to walk out on the new bridge.

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Construction of the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Colorado River Bridge) began in late January 2005 and traffic began using the Hoover Dam Bypass on October 19, 2010.  This signature arch bridge spans the Black Canyon, connecting the Arizona and Nevada Approach highways almost 900-feet above the Colorado River on the nearly 2,000 foot long bridge.

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The bridge is named for Mike O’Callaghan, Governor of Nevada from 1971-1979 and Pat Tillman, a football player who left his career with the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army and was later killed in Aghanistan.

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You can walk out on the bridge and get an amazing view of Hoover Dam, although the end is closed and you are unable to walk out on the Arizona side. This was fine with me since walking half-way across the bridge had me plastered against the concrete back wall, terrorized to look down or get too close to the railing.

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The bridge was a major component in the Hoover Dam Bypass Project which rerouted US 93 from its previous routing along the top of  Hoover Dam, removing several nasty turns and blind curves from the route. Not only does the bridge make the trip safer, it also saves time.

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Despite my quaking knees, I did step close enough to the rail to snap a few photos. The view from up there, in the middle of the bridge was spectacular.

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After peeling me off the wall and dragging me back down the steps, CC and I drove around the entire dam. There is a really nice visitor center and you can get out and walk around several viewing areas.

If you are ever close to Hoover Dam, I highly recommend taking the time to stop and check it out.

She Who Does Not Like Heights

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Happy Anniversary!

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, tagged , , , on December 18, 2012| 2 Comments »

our engagement

Nineteen years ago today, Captain Cavedweller and I exchanged vows in front of family and friends.

We were young and in love and completely clueless. Now we’re middle-aged and in love and still somewhat clueless.

Through the years we’ve had our ups and downs, our challenges and triumphs, but the one thing that hasn’t changed is that we’ve always, always loved each other.

For that I am more grateful than words can express. And if I do try to express them, I’ll get way too sappy and my eyes may even begin to leak.

So instead, I’ll say this – it is such a blessing to have found the one person who can make me laugh and smile every single day, who knows when to leave me alone and when to give me a push forward, who will hold my hand no matter what,  who believes in me and supports me one hundred percent, who loves me without conditions or expectations.

He is my friend, my confidant, head cheerleader, coach, champion, and love.

He is my wonderful Captain Cavedweller.

Happy Anniversary!

She Who Loves You Forever and Always

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Frozen Felines

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Entertaining at Home, Musings, Pets, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The weather in our neck of the woods is miserable – cold, drizzly, freezing rain, fog.

It has caused the fuzzy little felines at our house to act even more abnormal than usual.

Miss Maizy (see photo above) comes charging out to the front yard as soon as she hears our car pull in the driveway. She barricades the front door, refusing to let us in, and loudly lets it be known that she is

1. starving to death

2. freezing to death

3. annoyed that we have let the above situations occur

Drooley, aka The Heinous Cat, does not voice his displeasure with us. He is much more subtle with his complaints.

It starts with a cold, steely glare in the kitchen window. If we ignore that, he moves to the patio door where he sits staring at us with narrowed eyes and twitching what remains of his left ear. He will then curl up in a sad little ball and pretend he is going to freeze to the door mat. At this point, Captain Cavedweller will take pity on him and open the door to pet him. Seeing an opportunity to escape into warmth, the cat will race on and plop himself down on the rug by CC’s chair. Flopping onto his side, he waits for the head and tummy rub that is sure to come.

CC is so easily manipulated by the felines. And they know it.

They have to work a little harder to get me to do their bidding. Although Maizy knows if she sits in the kitchen window and looks at me with big, sad, eyes it won’t take long for her to get what she wants.

Maybe I need to take a few lessons from the cats to use on CC…

She Who Has Crazy Cats

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