Bagel Bread Pudding with Apple and Raisin Recipe...Without Oil or Butter

Last weekend's morning, I explored my refrigerator and found out that my cinnamon raisin bagels were about to be expired soon.  Wasting things is not my option :).  So I need to use it to make something.....then this menu had popped up to my head.  Yes, that's right.....Bread Pudding.  Normally I don't like bread pudding that was made of general white bread alone as the texture of bread pudding outcome is too soft for my liking.  I like to use mixed kind of bread in my bread pudding. And fortunately, on that day I also had one stale hotdog bun left.  Good things of this recipe are no oil or butter needed and less sweet, but it turned out really delicious.  What a healthy brunch!  Here's what I made:

My Bagel Bread Pudding with Apple and Raisin, topped with Whipped Cream.......Ah...Yummm.

Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 cinnamon raisin bagels, cubed
• 1 hotdog bun, cubed
• 2 cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon (to your liking)
• a pinch of nutmeg & clove (optional)
• a pinch of salt
• 1 apple, chopped
• 1/4 cup raisins

Direction:

1. Turn on the oven and heat to 350F
2. Arrange bagels & hotdog bun cubes (any bread you like is just fine) in a baking dish. Then sprinkle chopped apples and raisins all over bread.
3. Mix milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, salt in a mixing bowl until they are all combined.  Then pour the mixture over prepared bread.  
4. Let it stand for about 10 mins, so the bread have time to soak the milk-egg mixture.

    5. Bake it for about 35-45 mins depending on a size of your baking dish. And Vola!  Let's eat, shall we?

Chinese Honey Walnut Shrimp ... Easy & Yummy

This "Chinese Honey Walnut Shrimp" menu caught in my head all the time right after seeing one of my subscribed pages sharing the recipe on their site.  However, shrimps in that recipe are cooked by steaming which is not what I am craving for and looking for.  I prefer deep fried shrimps which remind me of my favorite dish I had in the Chinese Restaurant.  Therefore, I started searching on YouTube and found one recipe that is easy and look very yummy like I want it to be.  Especially, I have all required ingredients on hand at home!...Hooray!!!  So let 's get started:

Ingredients: 

(PS: This is my version since I did twist a recipe a bit to make it easier for me to cook...hahaha)

• 1/2 Walnuts
• 1 tbsp. Butter
• 3 tbsp. Brown Sugar or more to taste
• 1 tbsp. Honey
• 2 tbsp. Water
• a pinch of salt
• sesame seeds

• 3-4 tbsp. Mayonnaise 
• 1 tsp. Sweet Condensed Milk
• 1/2 Lemon

• 1 lb. Shrimp
• 1 egg
• a pinch of Salt & Pepper
• 1/2 cup of Cornstarch
• Oil 

• Lettuce

Step1: Making Honey Walnuts

• Put butter in a pan at medium heat until butter is melted.
• Add walnuts and sauté about 2 minutes.
• Add brown sugar, a pinch of salt, honey and water to the pan.  At this point, all brown sugar should be dissolved in water, otherwise, add a little bit more water.  Keep stirring walnuts until all liquid is almost dried up.
• Stir in sesame seed and keep stirring until liquid is almost dried up and walnuts look crispy.
• Set walnuts aside. (Sorry for a blurry picture as I wanna eat now :) )

Step 2: Making Mayonnaise Dressing  

• Mix mayonnaise, sweet condensed milk and lemon juice altogether until they are combined.

Step 3: Deep Fried Shrimps 

• Beat an egg with a pinch of pepper & salt in a bowl.
• Put shrimps (shelled & deveined) in a bowl of beaten egg and stir until all shrimps are covered by egg mixture.
• Put all shrimps in a plate of cornstarch and stir until all shrimps are coated by cornstarch. 
• Deep-fried shrimps in oil at medium high heat until they turn golden.

Step 4: Assemble the yummy dish

• Put all Deep-fried Shrimps from step 3 in Mayonnaise Dressing from step 2, and stir until all shrimps are coated by dressing.
• For serving, place lettuce and then shrimps in a serving plate.  Finally, top with honey walnuts. Enjoy!!!