French Toast O'Clock

Mornings can be difficult. Especially when you're hungry. Luckily for you, TNB french toast should provide sufficient motivation to hurl yourself out of bed and into the kitchen.

If you're like TNB, start by brewing a pot of fresh coffee. Because nothing else is getting done beyond this step.

Nectar of the gods.

Add a little "Irish courage".

priorities. 

Now, assemble your ingredients. You will need:

- Last night's french baguette (or other crusty bread)
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 8 or 9 vigorous gratings of fresh nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Confectioner's sugar, for dusting

All the things.

Apply sunglasses:

Seriously, what is that reflection about?

Slice baguette/crusty bread into 1-inch thick pieces, on a slight diagonal:

Put to one side. In a large bowl, beat together:

Eggs.

Action shot.

Milk.

Vanilla.

Cinnamon.

TNB tip: When Red Mummy is feeling naughty, a drop or two of good Irish whiskey (we like Jameson!) can be added for extra deliciousness. We elected to limit our spirits to our cups of coffee this particular morn, though.


 Red Mummy is a big fan of grating whole nutmeg...

grategrategrate. watch those fingernails.  

...but you can use ground nutmeg, too.

This is a good moment to turn on your griddle. Ours has settings for 150, 250, 350, and 450 degrees. Between 250 and 300 is the best temp for french toast. If your griddle is low, medium, high, we would suggest medium.

Gratuitous griddle picture.

While you're waiting for the griddle to heat up, you can refill the coffee:

coffee not added pictured.

Do a dance:

Baby, you're a fiiirework!

 And take gratuitous pictures of the kitchen:

Bread, batter, griddle, serving plate.

Bemused kittens.

Using tongs, carefully dip each piece of bread in the egg batter...

...and place on the griddle.

Continue in this way until you've used all the batter (or all the bread, whichever comes first!):

All the bread.

While the bread is cooking on one side, prepare the 'dusting'. Mix together about two tablespoons of confectioner's sugar and a teaspoons or two of ground cinnamon.

Brown Mummy gets the BEST close-ups!

Flip the french toast, to cook on the other side. Just a few minutes, until golden-brown, toasty perfection is reached. Then sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar 'dusting':

pictured: golden-brown toasty perfection.

Serve with lashings of syrup! (and butter, don't even forget the butter.)