One Thanksgiving meal isn’t enough.
It only comes once a year – why limit yourself to just one wonderful meal on that day? Especially if you’ve just run 13.1 miles.
Friendsgiving part 2 occurred at one of may favorite local haunts – Diesel. It’s more of a bar, but does serve up some tasty food. Except on Thanksgiving. This holiday they were serving drinks and the feast was a potluck. BYOF.
Potluck Thanksgiving in a bar = BEST idea ever.
We had 21 feet of food (yes, measurements were taken). 3 turkeys (the spicy dry rub was wonderful), a duck, soups, stuffings, collards, mac ‘n cheeses, desserts… if you could imagine it, someone had brought it to share.
Those Tostidos didn’t get opened
Incredibly, most of the food was homemade and quite good. Better than average, in fact. I went back for seconds thirds.
The most fun to look at dish of the night:
Mac ‘n Cheese with a Bacon weave
Despite being totally stuffed, dessert remained my weak spot.
Let’s pretend I didn’t sample all of this
My contribution was pretty tasty, if I do say so myself. In fact, I made it twice over Thanksgiving. Both times to an enthusiastic reception.
As soon as I laid eyes on chocolate chip Panettone I knew it was going into bread pudding. Pumpkin bread is better with chocolate chips… why not pumpkin in chocolate chip Panettone pudding? In the bar-potluck spirit, I added some booze – dark rum was made for sweets, IMHO.
Pre-bake photo opp
Half-baked
The pumpkin made this pudding especially creamy and the dark rum brought out the sweetness of the Panettone. Because it is a sweet bread, you don’t have to add a ton of sugar to this recipe – just 1/2 a cup in total.
I’ll even go out on a limb and say this is one of the best dishes I’ve ever made. I don’t say that about just anything!
My dish on display at Bargiving:
It’s all I can do not to make it again right now…
Pumpkin Rum Bread Pudding
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Keywords: bake dessert Panettone pumpkin rum Christmas Thanksgiving fall winter
Ingredients (16 servings)
- 1 chocolate chip Panettone, cut to ~2 in cubes (~7 cups)
- 1 C heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 C milk
- 1/2 stick salted butter (melted)
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/4 C pumpkin puree
- 3 T dark rum
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 C brown sugar
- 1/4 C sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 C chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cubed bread in 9 x 12 pyrex.
In large bowl, whisk together wet ingredients. Add sugars and cinnamon and stir until combined. Pour evenly over bread and toss to ensure cubes are all covered.
Place in oven and bake for 40-50 mins, until pudding is set and top is beginning to brown. Allow to cool ~10 mins before serving.
Notes: You can use other types of breads, though you will want to increase the amount sugar (Panettone is a sweet bread). If you don’t like rum, you can cut back or omit it entirely.
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Coming back to work this week was a terrible shock after 4 days off!
Are you still eating leftovers?
What is your favorite variety of bread pudding?
I just finished the turkey last night 🙁
Oh yea, best idea ever! And holy yum that bacon mac n’cheese looks OUTSTANDING! Yum.
Awesome bread pudding too. Perfect way to end an amazing Friendsgiving meal 🙂 Buzzed
Wow, what a feast!!! And the bacon weave amuses me to no end, even though I don’t like bacon!
That bread pudding looks delicious, though I’ve never had a pumpkin version. 🙂
The bacon weave was quite mesmerizing!
I love classic bread pudding – raisins, a ton of butter, and topped with milk right out of the oven.
Of course pumpkin makes everything better – and I can never refuse rum! 🙂
I don’t know if I’ve had bread pudding before!
Really?! I’ll make you some when we have our blogger potluck!
Yum! I made a pumpkin pecan and gorgonzola bread pudding a few years ago that was insane. Love panettone, so this one sounds so good!
Ok, that sounds mind-blowingly good. Anytime you want to make it again… happy to taste test. 🙂
that peach and pumpkin butter sounds amazing!!
I love the potluck Thanksgiving and it looks like there was a plethora of delicious eats (including those desserts you didn’t sample).
I love the rum and pumpkin combination. I feel like maybe your foodie penpal should send you a gift card to the ABC store as you make some killer foods with libations.
Hahahaha! That’s what I’m putting on my Christmas list. 🙂
BYOF is such a great idea at a bar. I saw so many Panettone flavors at the farmer’s market the other day. I’ve never had it so I’ll have to pick some up and try it.
Bacon Weave….hilarious! That bread pudding looks delicious girl..
xoxo from Trinidad
I love the idea of a friensgiving out at a bar–there’s one named Diesel in Boston that’s a personal favorite. It just sounds like a great way to bring the community together.
It was! Very nice bonding evening.
Bar-giving is totally something I could wrap my head around.
My man would FLIP if he saw that bacon-weaved mac and cheese. There is actually a restaurant here called Bacon that we keep meaning to go check out. 🙂
Whoa. I want to go there… and buy a t-shirt.
I like bread pudding, but I don’t find myself eating it often for some reason. I am on a pumpkin kick, so might be fun to veganize this dish. We’ll see. 🙂 I’m still eating my way through leftovers, but they are dwindling. I think I’ll have a few more days of stuffing and another serving of cranberry sauce, but that’s about it. Darn!
Wow that mac n cheese with the bacon wrap looks intense but in such a delicious way! 🙂 I love bread pudding with great flavors and yours looks and sounds so tasty!
I love the idea of a Thanksgiving potluck and your bread pudding addition looks fantastic!
Okay, you people need to stop being silly and get onto the metric system like the rest of the world. What on earth is the length of 21 feet?! 😛 That bacon mac and cheese is so impressive I might burst.
LOL! It’s a bit over 6 meters.
I’m glad you enjoyed everything. I live on the Peach and Pumpkin Butter whenever I can find it. And I’m so glad I have found your blog because of Foodie Pen Pals!
Thank you! I so glad to have found your blog as well. 🙂
The bacon weave mac and cheese looks like heaven to me. 😉
Wow, that bacon mac and cheese looks so awesome! As does your bread pudding! Great idea to use the panettone!
First of all- that bread pudding sounds awesome! Secondly- I love that you put booze in it since you were going to a bar potluck! You’re so creative. That looks like loads of fun! and… I’m with everyone else- that bacon mac & cheese… wowza!
Thank you! Truth be told, I probably would have put the rum in it regardless. 🙂
Oh this looks so awesome! I love the flavors and agree about the chocolate chips making pumpkin bread even better! I especially love the addition of the rum too… I always end up adding rum or some type of booze to my desserts! 🙂
Thank you! I am a firm believer that booze makes all desserts taste even better. 🙂