Easy French Toast
Recently, I discovered that I like French toast. I’d never been a big fan before, and I’m not sure what changed. Perhaps the exclusion of nutmeg helps, since I’m not a fan of that. I started with a recipe for French Toast Sticks, which was tasty. However, it was a lot of work for French toast–cut up bread into slices, whisk a bunch of eggs, dip the slices individually, spread out a lot of soggy sticks, turn over about 50 sticks, have one fall off the pan onto the floor…that’s way too much work for breakfast. Or lunch, as it usually was.
I experimented with the standard heat-the-toast-on-the-stove method. Pros: the first slice is ready in about 10 minutes. Cons: the time required increases significantly with each additional slice, you have to stay near the stove during the entire cooking process, and it doesn’t taste as good.
Solution: Easy French Toast. This isn’t so much a recipe as a method. The recipe is flexible, you can change it to whatever ingredients you like most. It takes about 40 minutes, mostly unattended. All ingredients are estimated, I don’t measure any part of this. I barely even count the eggs.
Easy French Toast
9 slices bread 5 eggs 2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk some vanilla a little salt
Put all ingredients except bread in a blender and mix well. Grease a pan (with sides
Bake in a pretty hot oven (350 F or so) until crispy, 30-40 minutes. It’s good to flip once about 2/3 way through cooking to get both sides crispy.
You don’t eat 9 slices of French toast at a time? Put it in some sort of sealable plastic container and microwave later.
You hate cleaning your blender? Give it a quick rinse, put a couple cups of water and one drop dishsoap in it, put the lid on, and run the blender for 5-10 seconds. Rinse again. Clean. Actually, I had a little cinnamon stuck to the sides that I wiped off with a dishcloth.
