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Chocolate Chip Cookie Bread Pudding combines custardy bread pudding and chocolate chip cookies. It tastes like a combination of cake, pudding, and chocolate chip cookies. It’s ooegy gooey deliciousness.  Ingredients 4 cups of cubed Brioche Bread 2 bags of Tiny Tate's Cookies (about 1 cup) 1 1/2 cups Milk (I use 2%) 2 Large Eggs 1/4 cup packed Brown Sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla a pinch of Salt 1/4 cup Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips Serve with: Whipped Cream, Ice Cream, Caramel Sauce, and/or Fresh Berries Instructions Let the cubed bread sit out on the counter for an hour to two. It soaks up the custard mixture more effectively if the bread is a little stale. In a large bowl, whisk the milk, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt together. Add the cubed bread, the chocolate chip cookies, and the chocolate chips. Gently stir, and then let sit for 15 minutes. Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Transfer the brioche and custard mixture into an ungreased ceramic baking dish and bake for 40-50 minu...

A Woman's Guide to Surviving Air Force Basic Training Basic Training Tips for Women This is for the women out there that are going into the Air Force. Basic training can be difficult but there are some things you can do to make it easier. How to Prepare and Train for Basic Training Months in advance, start running and doing push-ups and sit-ups. You want to be able to do at least 20 push-ups and 30 sit-ups and be able to run a mile without too much effort. If you don’t, basic training will be a lot more difficult as you run for 30 minutes at a time, sometimes sprinting for at least a minute. You will constantly be doing push-ups as a punishment for anyone in your flight doing anything wrong. There is physical training every day unless there is a thunderstorm. Get yourself mentally prepared by doing as much research as possible. There are many videos out there to help you. They will show what it is like. You will also want to learn to be organized. Your locker will have everything i...

THE PATH OF THE GODS: HIKING THE AMALFI COAST’S MOST GORGEOUS TREK I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro Sure, I knew that the  Path of the Gods  — also known as  Il Sentiero degli Dei —  technically  led to Positano; however, I had no idea what adventure truly lay ahead. A lot of people tout the pathway as one of the top active Italy adventures and a must-do when hiking the Amalfi Coast. And there is good reason for this. If you’re researching things to do in the Amalfi Coast, I will tell you, as someone who has now experienced the Path of the Gods trail for herself, it is definitely NOT overrated While trying to research how to hike the Path of the Gods, my boyfriend Andy and I found a plethora of information on available tours, but not really a step-by-step guide with a personal account of the experience. So, I decided to create one myself. Trust me; you won’t wan...

How To Make Lasagna  Coming from an Italian family, I am very picky on pasta. I have yet to find a good lasagna that I didn't make myself. Why add all those special ingredients and risk your kids not liking it? Follow this recipe and I promise that your kids as well as you will love it! You will need: Lasagna dish/pan 1 Box of Lasagna shells 1 1/2 big bottles of Prego Big bag of shredded cheese or two smaller ones (The ones from Costco work great) 1 lb lean ground beef. Cook the lasagna shells in water until soft. While lasagna shells are cooking, cook the ground beef until fully brown. Drain the lasagna shells and start warming the Prego. Add the meat to the sauce. Once your sauce is warmed, it's time to start layering. Take your lasagna dish and add a thin layer of the meat sauce. Then add the lasagna shells (normally 3 side by side will work) followed by sauce, then cover that in cheese. Repeat that process until you are out of shells. It is up to you how much cheese and sau...