Every Sunday morning my dad makes my entire family pancakes. Pancakes are his thing along with grilling meat; he is great at what he does. My mom is great at making everything else. She makes us all an extravagant dinner every night. My brother makes a mean hoagie along with other types of sandwiches. My thing is French toast. French toast is my favorite type of breakfast so therefore, I am quite good at making them.
When it comes to making French toast I start out by cracking about 4 or five eggs in a good sized metal bowl. I use this many eggs because I want my French Toast to be totally covered in the egg. I whisk the eggs thoroughly making sure that they are not chunky or anything. Within the eggs mix I add cinnamon and vanilla. I use a good amount of vanilla because I love that taste about 3 or 4 teaspoons worth. Sometimes I add extras if they are available such as chocolate, sugar, or even coconut. The biggest thing to remember is to not use too much of the extra ingredient or it will be ruined. Before putting the white bread in the mix make sure everything is well stirred around. I always use white bread because that tastes the best to me. Wheat or Rye is honestly terrible to me. The best thing anyone could use for French Toast however, is baguettes. Baguettes are even better than regular white bread. The French Toast actually tastes better when the baguettes start off a little stale too. So once you put in your bread of choice make sure that the entire piece of bread is completely soaked within the egg mixture. It takes about 20 seconds to get the entire piece of bread soaked and covered. Do not leave the bread in too long however or else it will not turn out crisp enough. When you are done soaking hold the bowl over the stove that has been preheated to about 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Hold the bowl over the stove so you do not have any egg drippings on your counter. Depending upon how big your stove is, fill it up with as much egg soaked bread as you can, making sure that they are about an inch away from each other. When they are the perfect goldish brown color you should put the toast on cutting bread and put some butter on it right away so the butter melts and tastes good. Right before I eat my French Toast I like to cover it in powdered sugar along with some nice maple syrup. My favorite type of syrup is the maple syrup from Vermont that is then and tasty. But I also enjoy other brands such as Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth’s.
Cleaning up French Toast is very simple which is another reason why I love to do it so much. Just rinse out the eggs mixture bowl and wipe off the counter of any drippings. Fold a damp paper towel twice into a square and wipe it around the stove with your spatula once the stove has cooled down significantly. Try to clean everything off as soon as you can so the egg does not harden or dry up at all, because then it is very difficult to clean up. I try to clean up as much as I can while I am cooking the French Toast so I do not have a huge chore at the end.
The French toast recipe sounds very easy and delicious. Recipes should not be complicated because if we are hungry, we should not have to wait a while to prepare a meal we are craving. I think the vanilla adds the best flavoring to the pancakes to give them a sweet sultry bite. I might have to try a stale piece of bread next time because I always use fresh pancake. It will a yummy experiment to see which one tastes better.
ReplyDeleteWell Carl, I have enjoyed your descriptive summary on how to create the delicacy French Toast. You have given a vivid account of the recipy and what you do during the toasts creation. It was a pleasure to read your blog entry as you kept a steady focus. You could have involved some more comedy and absurd statements but it was overall well written and gave the reader a good idea on how to make this food. Maybe a better conclusion could have helped.
ReplyDeleteYour French toast recipe is quite nice Carl! It seems very simple and easy to make, but your level of detail is very helpful for the reader to understand how to go about making this toast. I also like how you added the step of clean-up, because most people don't add this vital step, and people are left with a large mess with no help on cleaning it up. Good tutorial!
ReplyDeleteThis french toast sounds really good. Whenever I eat french toast I always thought it was all soggy but your recipe sounds like it can be fixed by not soaking the bread too long. I enjoyed reading this article and will probably use it one day when I have time. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI like how you gave a little bit of the cooking background in your family at the beginning. You really considered a lot of things a person could mess up doing or be confused about. Nice guide.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoy making french toast. I thought your step by step description was easy to follow. It is always nice to know how to cook even if it means just making french toast. Every person should know some background basics to cooking. It is a great feeling to know that you made what you ate.
ReplyDeleteHey carl, thank you somu8ch for teaching me how to make french toast. I always burn it! :( I dont particularly care for powdered sugar, but I'll just skip that part. The baguette is a good tip because when i use regular white bread it always gets a little too soggy and that is no good. My mom will appreciate you and your french toast making skills when I make it for her on Mothers Day! Thank you!!
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