French Toast

Published on Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:00
Written by Loral Morrison

This is the most flexible meal I know of... I will happily et this for breakfast, lunch or dinner...or maybe all three ;)

It can also be changed up for each person, modified to suit dietary needs and is simple and cheap to make with household basics. People usually have some sort of bread, eggs and milk in the house.

So, surprised that I eat French toast? How about if I told you I love it with bacon and bananas? How do I get away with this with having the reputation of Food Nazi? Let me teach you a thing or two... those of you that love your fatty rubbish food may wish to stop now as what you are about to see may make you cry.

French Toast

2 slices of real good bread, I used Freyas Soy and Linseed here but Couplands do a real nice grainy bread which I love for this. (It must have grains and it must NOT be white!)
1 whole egg
1 egg white
1-2 tbsp of milk
I add a tbsp. of protein powder here to up the protein power
Small banana
2 slices of bacon (that's had the Loral treatment... )
Tbsp of pure maple syrup

Preheat a large frypan for your bread and a smaller one for your bacon. Spray the large one with oil spray.

First trim the rubbish off your bacon... there will be many that think I'm wasting half the bacon doing this. I don't care. I'd rather throw out crap meat than put crap in my body. We got some nice bacon form the markets last weekend and it doesn't have all the artificial stuff and stacks of water in it.

This is my bacon before

And after

Cook the bacon over high heat in the small pan.

Whisk together the egg, egg white and milk. If you are using protein powder (vanilla is my flavor of choice) you'll want to use a stick blender to whisk it or you'll get lumps of powder.

Then dip your bread in it on each side then put it in your large frypan. Have the heat medium to high for your French toast. Flip once cooked on one side and cook the other side (duh)

Once the bacon is cooked you can remove it and if you like you can slice your banana down the middle and cook that... I'm not a fan of cooked banana myself and prefer it fresh.

So, once all is cooked, prep it up as you like.... And drizzle a little maple syrup on top. The beauty of eating quality foods like good bacon and pure maple syrup is that you eat a little less of it and enjoy it a bit more ;) And boy do I enjoy it....