French Toast

So let me start by telling you I use to never be a breakfast person, that was before I met PJ. His mother cooks the BEST breakfast in the world! I mean she goes all out every Saturday and Sunday. Eggs, bacon, sausage gravy, biscuits, pancakes, french toast. You name it she does it. It's pretty amazing! I guess that is what I get for marrying into a southern Missouri family :) So this being said I have become MUCH more of a breakfast person. My most recent adventure was french toast. French toast has never been my favorite. I think its because the first few times I had it the toast was very eggy.... like a thick layer of egg on the outside, totally not my thing. Well last week we had a bunch of leftover buns at work, that were going to go bad so a friend suggested I take them home and make french toast out of them.

I was very skeptical.... But I do love these buns, they are so soft and just the perfect density. So i thought ok this is worth a try. I went to one of my favorite food blogs, Our Best Bites, and yes they have a new cookbook out I am dying to get! Anywho.... I found a delishly high calorie french toast recipe that I thought looked delicious, and emphasized the importance of the bread soaking up the perfect amount of eggy goodness. I halved the recipe and I was off! I sliced off the top and bottom of the buns, dipped and cooked. I did add some cinnamon to the eggy batter (which from now on is a MUST) and i did not do the last step of cinnamon and sugar. I figured the syrup would be more then enough sweet for us.

These were PERFECTION!

I barely got this picture taken before I devoured them! PJ had 4 and Brody and I each polished off 2. This was a real inward struggle for me not to go for a second helping! My dad had stopped by so he even got to partake in my first french toast experience. And I have to say, I gave myself more then one pat on the back for this one! Whatever you do, you HAVE to try this recipe :)