Sunday, May 6, 2012

Lizette's Banana Pudding and a Gluten-full Life

One of my students has made this banana pudding that is delicious!  How delicious you may ask?  The last time she made it, she gave me some leftovers, and I finished the whole plate on the drive home...which happens to be 30 seconds away from the school where I taught, and oh, I didn't have utensils.  Probably shouldn't share that. Ah well.  I was craving and craving it, but didn't have some of the ingredients to make the quick version, so I made it the long way.  I made the vanilla wafers from scratch.  I hadn't tried to make them before, but they were way easy and pretty tasty.  I used my favorite vanilla pudding recipe, replacing one cup of the milk with sweetened condensed milk, which apparently was suppose to be just condensed milk.  oops...but turned out well!!

At this time I was also making rolls for dinner at moms.  I had leftover Rhodes rolls and made my favorite rosemary rolls recipe by Pioneer Woman.  These are amazing, and have added to my gluten-full diet.  Gosh, I love them so much...straight out of the oven hot.  Oh my goodness.  So, here are several recipes for your delight!


Vanilla Wafer Cookies

By: Edith MacBeath

1/2 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to a wire rack to cool.

Vanilla Pudding
Mix in saucepan:
2/3 cup sugar
dash of salt
2 ½ Tbsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp flour
Stir in gradually:
3 cups whole milk (though I had replaced one cup with sweetened condensed milk and the other 2 cups I used 1% milk.)
Cook over moderate heat stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils.  Boil 1 minute.  Remove from heat.
Slowly stir half the mixture into:
3 egg yolks, beaten
Blend egg yolk mixture into hot mixture in saucepan.  Boil 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.
Blend in:
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
1 Tbsp butter
Cool

Lizette's Banana Pudding

Ingredients:
-1 large box of instant vanilla pudding (or vanilla pudding recipe from above)
-1 quart Heavy whipping cream (I used a half pint)
-8 oz milk and 1 can condensed milk (for the instant vanilla pudding)
-6 ripe bananas
-1 box vanilla wafers
-2 limes
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 If using instant pudding:
First whisk the vanilla pudding pack with condensed milk and 8oz of milk. After you mix well and there are no chunks, place pudding in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes so it hardens.

Pour the heavy whipping cream and mix with electric mixer so it can fluff up faster.While the heavy whipping cream gets whipped,

Slice the bananas and squeeze the lime juice on them so they don’t get brown. Mix them well so all the bananas get evenly coated with lime juice. When heavy whipping cream is whipped and fluffy, slowly fold in the vanilla pudding.

Pour a little of the whipped vanilla mix into a Pyrex or whatever container you want to use and spread it to coat the bottom so that vanilla wafers stick. Fill the bottom of container with a layer of vanilla wafers, bananas, and whipped vanilla mix. Repeat the steps.  Refrigerate and enjoy!

I put several of the leftover vanilla wafer cookies in the blender and blended them very fine and sprinkled on top of the pudding.


Pioneer Woman's Rosemary Rolls







  • Melted Butter, Regular, Salted
  • Fresh Rosemary, Coarsely Chopped
  • Coarse Sea Salt
  • frozen, unbaked dinner rolls

Preparation Instructions

Spray a small iron skillet with cooking spray (or coat with olive oil). Place frozen rolls in the skillet, leaving plenty of room for rising. Cover and allow to rise for several hours.
After rising, brush rolls with melted butter.
Sprinkle on chopped rosemary. Brush with additional butter. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
Bake according to roll package directions (usually 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes), until rolls are a deep golden brown on top.
Serve skillet on the table.



1 comment:

  1. Sara! I totally just made the vanilla pudding and vanilla wafers! I hope you don't mine that I COPIED your recipes to MY recipe blog. :) I said they were from my friend Sara. Yummy! Thanks for sharing!

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