Treats with a Family Game Night

Tomorrow morning is co-op pick up, so this is my night to try and use up stuff.  Sometimes it can be a bunch of random leftovers, but we did that last night.  Tonight was mostly lettuce leftover because we really don't eat lots of salads around here.  So I attempted to make it a bit of fun.

We had the layered salad again.  This time I used onion, celery, the last of the leafy green lettuce, about 1/3 of a head of cauliflower, frozen corn, and some walnuts with the usual mayo and freshly ground black pepper.
We also had some baked asparagus with it.  This time I squeezed the juice of half a lemon over the asparagus when I pulled it out of the oven.  Otherwise it was the usual minced garlic and olive oil.

I also made a home made bread from the last of the dough leftover from the kids making pizza earlier in the week.  The dough was getting a nice sour dough scent to it, which means it was going to make an excellent loaf of bread.  That was the thing I did to make dinner seem extra yummy even though I made other dishes very similar to things I had made earlier in the week.  Granted the salad was a little bit different and I added the lemon juice to the asparagus to change up the flavor a bit.
And then we were all wanting a dessert.  I had a graham cracker crust in the pantry that I never got around to using and decided to make use of it in a banana pudding since Nilla wafers are out of the question with the dairy allergies in the house.  I just adapted my Great Aunt Martha's general pudding recipe by using almond milk, had the girl child slice and arrange a couple of bananas.  BTW the pudding recipe is crazy easy.
3/4c sugar
3T flour or corn starch
1/2t salt
2 1/3 c almond milk
3 egg yolks
1/2 t vanilla
Basically you whisk it all together and then put it on the stove to cook while stirring gently until it thickens.  With the almond milk it thickens real suddenly with more lumps, but that is fixed with another whisking before pouring into the container of choice.
Now you can make this pudding a chocolate with 3T of cocoa powder or a coconut with 1/2c of dried coconut.  The cocoa you would add at the same time you add the flour/corn starch.  The coconut you add while you are stirring.
And then we played cards as a family for a bit while the meringues were cooking.  Cause yeah, I wasn't about to let those egg whites go to waste.