Summer Reads Recipe: Luanne’s Sweet Corn Pudding from Colton Gentry’s Third Act
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Makes 12 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1 (5-ounce) can evaporated milk
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 (20-ounce) packages frozen cream-style corn, thawed
Steps
- Preheat oven to 375°. Lightly grease a 13×9-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add evaporated milk, butter, sugar, salt, pepper, and vanilla, stirring to combine. Stir in flour and corn.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake for 45 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Enjoy!
Colton Gentry is riding high. His first hit in nearly a decade has caught fire, he’s opening for country megastar Brant Lucas, and he’s married to one of the hottest acts in the country. But he’s hurting. Only a few weeks earlier, his best friend, Duane, was murdered onstage by a mass shooter at a country music festival. One night, with his trauma festering and Jim Beam flowing through his veins, Colton stands before a sold-out arena crowd of country music fans and offers his unfiltered opinion on guns. It goes over poorly.
Immediately, his career and marriage implode. Left with few choices or funds, he retreats to his rural Kentucky hometown. He’s resigned himself to has-been-dom, until a chance encounter at his town’s new farm-to-table restaurant gives him a second shot at life: a job working in the kitchen with Luann, his first love, who has undergone her own reinvention. Told through perspectives alternating between his senior year of high school, his time coming up with Duane as hungry musicians in Nashville, and the present, COLTON GENTRY’S THIRD ACT is a story of coming home, undoing past heartbreaks, and navigating grief, and is a reminder that there are next acts in life, no matter how unlikely they may seem.