so this morning i woke up and wanted to make something to go with the fresh strawberries i had cut up last night, so i thought i’d try to make french toast. i’ve been on sort of a roll lately, i made an omelet the other night that came out fantastic. i cut up a tomato and added some cheddar cheese for the insides. it was marvelous. sorry, i didn’t take a picture, but i should have, because it came out that good.
[sidebar: the two skillets (hard anodized calphlaon, the 10" and 12" were packed together at the store) i had bought at BBB about a month ago have been great to have since the move up to stainless steel cookware. using a stainless steel skillet for eggs was just too hard.]
anyway, this morning i looked up how to make french toast. i had never made it before, even though i’ve bought the ingredients before. i usually go with the Vive La French Toast at IHOP by default, but i don’t know if i’d call myself a french toast connoisseur. i found a recipe that included something like 6 different things, a couple of which i did not have. i picked out the ingredients i thought would be good (ground cinnamon and vanilla) and used those. i didn’t measure anything, because i’m trying to be a ‘good’ chef like that. i scrambled two eggs and added the ground cinnamon and vanilla.
i used the wheat bread i had, and realized after the first piece that i’d have to flip and remove the bread almost instantaneously because the bread started to fall apart if i left it in too long.
the first piece i didn’t really let the excess egg completely drain off, so i had a little bit of fried egg in the pan. no matter, the piece still came out fine. i had enough egg mixture for three pieces.
the cinnamon and vanilla added a great flavor to the french toast (i feel like Bobby Flay saying that). i pulled out the strawberries and had a great Sunday morning breakfast.
and now that i know french toast isn’t that big a deal, i figure i can make it more often. it’s way better than slumming it with frozen waffles, even if they are Eggo.
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