Simple French Toast : Recipe

I LOVE breakfast! When I was a kid,we did breakfast for dinner a lot, and it was a favorite of mine. From French toast, to pancakes, to biscuits and gravy and usually a side of bacon.

It was a rare occasion, like Christmas morning, that we ever had breakfast foods for breakfast! But maybe that’s why I became so fond of it all. And honestly, who doesn’t love some crisp bacon?? (Yes, I see you non- bacon lovers… haha)

But since being an adult and now having children, we do eat breakfast foods for breakfast, (and for dinner, of course) but with my son being so picky about eating, we are limited on what we can have. So I want to share with you this simple but tasty way that I make our French toast!

The ingredients:

• 4 slices Wheat bread
• 5 eggs (they don’t have to be fresh, but I definitely prefer my chickens eggs to store bought.)
• Ground cinnamon
• Ground nutmeg
• Ground ginger
• Whole milk

Now I don’t use measurements when adding my seasonings but just as a rule of thumb, use mostly cinnamon, about 1/3 of that amount on the ginger and then about the same or less of nutmeg, they are just accent flavors, and you don’t want them to be overpowering.

Mix it all together with a fork or a whisk, and it doesn’t have to be perfectly blended, again, all preference. I tend to leave mine with some bigger cinnamon chunks left because it leaves some dimension in your bites.

Your first two pieces will have the most cinnamon! So if you decide you need more on the last ones, go ahead one mix some in before you batter up your last pieces.

Now I don’t have exact times here for you, but I usually set my pan to a medium high heat for the first two pieces, I peel up a corner on each to check and see the bottoms. If the bottoms are brown, you can flip. My pan is also bigger than my burner, so I do rotate my bread 180° to ensure that it all gets evenly browned.

Once you flip, that second side tends to cook faster so be mindful of your toast!

I turn my burner down a few notches as well when I do the last two, but everyone’s pans are different so you may not need to.

Once your toasts are cooked, I take the remaining egg mixture and pour it in my empty pan and scramble! You’ll get a nice sweet and savory scrambled egg! (I add salt to my eggs at the end because I love salt on my eggs)

Plate up and enjoy! I have a separate plate here for my 3 year old, I just sliced his piece up and mixed a little egg with the French toast (spoiler, he didn’t eat the egg)

This is a really nice and simple way to make yummy French toast in the morning and takes very little time or work, and goes wonderfully with a nice hot cup of fresh roasted coffee, or ovaltine milk, in my sons case!

I hope you try it out! Let me know what you thought!

P.s. it’s really good with some powdered sugar on top if you want an extra sweet start to your day!

~A