Easy Recipe for comfort food, made with Sliced Bread

Regardless of whether you're together with your family, or all alone at night, there's nothing like some warm, filling stuff to fill your belly.

Personally, my favourite is a nice hot bowl of steaming Tonkatsu Ramen (Japanese Pork Noodles), but these recipes are great too!

~ A sort of Bread Pudding ~

(This is some photogenic bread.)

- An oven (A microwave oven is fine, but it won't achieve that nice crust. A normal oven or a toaster oven is great.)
- Oven explosion-proof dish (I have a ceramic dish that won't explode, and results in less sticking.)
- Sliced Bread
- Butter
- Milk
- Seasoning
- Optional Extras

Those are the basic ingredients listed above. Take that bread, cut it into whatever shapes or leave it whole. Spread as much butter as you want on it (I do both sides.) and lay it in the dish.

You can lay it overlapping each other prettily in a concentric pattern, or just stack the slices of bread up. Just build up some nice, absorbent volume there.

To get nice even absorption going on here, you pour some milk as you lay down each slice of bread. This is more important for the Uno-stacko bread. For the overlapping bread which doesn't build up so much height, just douse the milk on, and roughly estimate the amount of sogginess you want. For me, I get the lower half nice and soggy, and the top half stay unsoggy enough to crust over nicely.

Seasonings? Use whatever taste great! Like, you can sprinkle some cocoa powder, or maybe cinnamon, or nutmeg. To get a more intense and even taste, instead of just sprinkling on top, you sprinkle stuff in between layers.

As for Optional Extras, there's many ways you can customize the dish. Want something savoury? Beat up some eggs to pour over the top (This needs some care, unless you want to get stomachache from undercooked food.), or maybe sprinkle mozzarella cheese. Maybe sprinkle some bacon bits in! Need some fibre? Put poached or raw apple slices in. I prefer poached, it's softer.

Cook in the oven till crusty on the top. It will be golden, browned over or charcoal black depending on your preferences ^^. Break that crust, and dig into some yummy, milk-soaked bread.

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Here's a few light snacks to burn the midnight oil with:

- Buttered toast (Simple and yet so delicious. Butter adds aroma, vegetable shortening have zilch. Always use real butter, I say.)

- Bread drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with basil, then toasted. (Extra-virgin olive oil has the best taste. Instead of basil, you can always use rosemary too.)

- Bread with a sunny-side up egg with half-runny yolk. (The sweetness of bread compliments egg perfectly. I love eggs. When I get to heaven, I hope there will be an egg buffet, where I can eat and eat and eat without worrying about cholesterol.)

- A toasted tuna sandwich

You may realize I never include garlic toast in here. Man, I love garlic toast too, but the garlic aftertaste will bother me and disturb my sleep!

(Traditional English breakfast - fried bread, egg, tomatos, mushrooms, sausage and bacon. This is from AMARTI02 of Flickr, and I just had to put it in because it looks so delicious.)

No more chowing down on chocolate bars and chips at night, go for healthier (Look above - damn, I seriously don't practice what I preach.) bread! Yes, you could always just grab an energy bar. But, you know, your very own pudding got love in it ^^.