Not-so-beautiful strawberries? NO problem

My mom is nice, but she's pretty slow. When the strawberries come in and we go away for the weekend she insists on picking a bunch of them and just letting them sit in a container on the counter for a few days. So, of course we get home and they're not looking too good so nobody eats them and boom they are wasted. But, are they? Instead of just throwing those sad strawberries in the compost pile, bake with them! Obviously, the "end of life fruit" is certainly the sweetest and after it's baked nobody can tell they were the nasty looking ones on the counter.

I made an amazing strawberry bread pudding- perhaps the easiest dessert out there.

Ingredients-

1. Enough diced bread to fill the dish you want

.......I literally used a few kaiser rolls, an end of a sesame seeded sub roll, and the end of one of those round loaves---use whatever you got and it's better if it's stale!!

2. About 8 eggs
......Depends on the size of your dish; you can always add more liquid if it's not enough

3. About 1 cup half&half

4. About 1/2 cup milk

5. About 1 cup sugar

6. About 1.5 tsps vanilla extract

7. Pinch of salt
8. I probably used about 12 oz of strawberries

Cut up the bread and throw in a buttered, square baking dish. You can make it however big/small you want your bread to be. Mix everything else except strawberries in a bowl with a whisk. When the bread is stale (feels dry) mix in the sliced strawberries with your hands. Then pour in the wet stuff and press bread down to absorb all the liquid and to moisten EVERY piece of bread. If you don't have enough of the wet stuff (it should really come 3/4 of the way up the sides of the dish) just crack a couple more eggs and add a little more milk, whisk it up, and pour it in. Bake @ 350F until browned...IT IS THAT EASY.

When life gives you ugly fruit- throw it in bread pudding!