Vanilla ICe Cream, Chocolate Bread Pudding and Rice Pudding... your choice!

Happy Thursday! Wow, it has been a full week thus far!  We are working double time in the kitchen during class, doing 3 custards at a time.  Today we finished up the Ice Cream. :) We took the Vanilla Creme Anglaise that we made yesterday and we put it through the ice cream machine. Fuuun.. :) Who doesn't love ice-cream?? FRESH ice-cream at that! It tasted heavenly. We added chocolate chips, walnuts and marshmallows to ours. But honestly, the Vanilla Cream was just as good on its own.

We then moved on to creating our Rice pudding. I didnt know that many people liked this little guy... eeehhhh ;)

This one takes a little time since you need to cook the rice for about 30 minutes. You grab your pan and put the rice into it as well as your vanilla, salt and milk and bring it to a simmer and cover. Bring the heat down and let the steam cook the rice until it is tender.

Once your rice is ready, you will temper the mixture into your mixed sugar and yolk creation.. adding only half of the sugar into the yolks, and the other half into the rice creation.  Temper everything back into  the pan and place on the stove again so that it thickens. You will add in your cinnamon at this time as well as the heavy cream and let this thicken as you stir gently.  Once you have the consistency that you want, you are ready to serve! A lot of people enjoy this hot but you can cool this in the fridge and serve cold as well. Its all about what YOU want! :) That's what I say.

Lets move on to the chocolate bread pudding.

All these ingredients created quite a delicious treat. :)  I am not a big Rice Pudding fan, and am also not a bread pudding fan, but hello!! They added CHOCOLATE!! What doesn't taste good with chocolate?!?!? Nada, that's what! ;)

You have a similar production for this.  You take all the bread you have cut up into cubes and place them in your container.  You will Heat up your milk, heavy cream, 1/2  your sugar and vanilla and bring it to a simmer. Once the milk hits that simmering stage, mix your egg yolks with the other 1/2 of the sugar. :) Sugar, Sugar, Sugar... and everything nice!  No spice, please and thank you ;)

You are ready to temper the milk into the yolk mixture. :)

You can see in the picture that we have the bread in the tins. We have the chef tempering the yolks as we, lovely students, look on and diligently take notes. ;)

Combine the yolk mixture back into the milk.  Add your chocolate into the hot mixture and whisk it in. Transfer your creation into a pourable container and let that baby fall onto your lovely bread pieces. 

Once all your tins are filled you can take a spatula and gently press the bread down so that all the bread soaks up this mixture.  You can put this into the stove at 350 degrees F right away or you can put them in the fridge for about 10 minutes, let the bread absorb the chocolate mixture and then place them in the oven!

Had enough yet?? Well I wont give you any more steps. :) I can, on the other hand, give you the recipe's for these if you want them, so just give me a shout.

Tomorrow is Friday!!  I am excited because my entire family will be getting together. A little family reunion. My brother is flying in from California with his pregnant wife :), my other brother is coming in from Miami with his beautiful girlfriend and we are all going to have a little fun together. SO, on that note..

I am off to do a little reading and I will see you back here tomorrow. And if by chance you see I don't make it tomorrow, then I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE to post Friday's activity by Monday :) :) Tee Hee...

Good night to you!