French Toast Casserole

So you might be wondering... just fruit before a full day of drinking? That's what I thought too... ludicrous. We need something of substance!

I made this recipe, had one bite, and was hooked. It's easy, portable, and you can make it the night before so it doesn't get in the way of your horrible drinking habits. Sounds like my kind of recipe.

Here's what you'll need:

-a loaf of french bread or challah bread, cubed
-1/2 cup of butter
-1 cup of brown sugar
-1 tsp of cinnamon
-1.5 cups of milk
-5 eggs

First things first, cube up your french bread. It'll make a mess using the good crusty bread, but it absorbs so much more of the egg mixture that you'll definitely want to just go for it.


Butter up a 9 x 13 ish inch pan.


Place half of your bread in the bottom of the pan.


Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon, then sprinkle half of it over the bread layer.



Layer the last of the bread on top of that, then sprinkle the rest of the sugar mix on the very top.


Measure out the milk in your measuring cup, add in the 5 eggs and the vanilla extract directly into the measuring cup


andddd WHISK


Now pour this all over top of the casserole.


Cover with tin foil or plastic wrap and let it sit and soak overnight. The next day, just pop it in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Take it out and uncover, then cook for an additional 15 minutes to brown up the top. Hollllyyyy cow. Serve it with some maple syrup. Die.

I don't have the sweet finished product because we went and ate it too fast. But let's just say...this picture sums it up.


Sorry John, I had to.

Happy St. Patty's day!

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Courtzilla

Restaurant Style French Toast

AKA Holy shit, she's posting.

Here it is folks, a quick post about one of my favorite Sunday morning breakfasts. Or Tuesday night dinners. Or... okay, I admit I'll eat this anytime. It's French toast! You can't really go wrong.

First things first, you'll want to mix together (for eight pieces), 4 eggs, 1 tbp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 cup of flour, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp vanilla, and 1 cup of milk.

Whisk together until it looks slightly gross, like this!



Then, dip your bread in, letting it soak for about 30 seconds.



Once that's soaking, spread some butter in a skillet until it melts, and plop your bread in. It only takes about 2 minutes on each side to brown up nicely.



Once that's done... all that's left to do is smother it in maple syrup. If you're Canadian, use ketchup. For the purpose of this post, I used syrup. Didn't want to scare away more people than necessary.



That's it!! Enjoy anytime. It's too good just to waste on breakfast.

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Maple Apple Crisp

Nothing says summer more than fresh fruit, baked with a crispy top and served with ice cream. Sounds nice doesn't it?

What's in season. Peaches! Peaches are in season. I've got a few let's use those.

Wait... what's that in the back of the crisper there... how long have I had these apples? Apple crisp it is.

Still, totally divine. Oh wait... no ice cream... maple cream sauce? Yeah that'll do in a pinch.

For as thrown together as this was, I devoured it in record time. And it's totally healthy! I mean... it's got fruit in it?

You'll need (for 2 servings)
- 1 apple
- 1/4 cup of flour
- 1/4 cup of quick oats
- 2 tbsp of sugar
- 2 tbsp of brown sugar (I know I know, these are pitifully small bits, but I'm just feeding me here, ok?)
- 2 tbsp of butter
- squirt oh lemon juice
- pinch of salt
- drizzle of maple syrup... or the fake stuff. I'll look the other way.

Ugh. I want to eat this every day for the rest of my life.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

To begin, take two apples. Old apples. Of different races. It's cool, they'll get along.


Peel two apples, until they look naked and alone.


Slice up one of your apples and put it in a small oven safe dish.


Realize one apple takes up a lot of room. Proceed to eat the reject apple.

Drizzle the apples with lemon juice to prevent them from browning.


EXTREME ANGLE SHOT!!

Then, drizzle with some maple syrup, and stir around until everything commingles. Fun word.



Now! For the crisp.

Mix together your flour, oats, sugar, brown sugar, and a pinch of salt in a small bowl.


Now, cut up your butter into tiny cubes. You want the butter to be cold, that way it'll still be in little chunks when it goes into the oven, and will distribute pockets of love all over the top of the dish.


Mix your butter into your flour mix with a fork or a pastry cutter, until it resembles coarse sand... or something like this. Chunky is good, as long as everything is mixed together.


Evenly sprinkle over the top of your apples.


Now cover it with foil, and pop it into the oven for 10 -15 minutes.

While your waiting.. if you're feeling really naughty... and you've been surviving on tortellini for a day and a half...

Take a splash of cream, and put it in a sauce pan over the stove. Heat it up on low, and add a bit of maple syrup to it, like so...



Wait like 5 minutes until that cooks down a bit, then put it in the fridge so it thickens. Trust me. It's better than ice cream.

Once your 10 - 15 minutes is up, take out the crisp and uncover it. Put it back in the oven for another 2o minutes.

Then, when it looks like this:



Take a ginormous spoonful, and put it in a bowl.


You won't believe the apples with the maple syrup. It's insanely good. And then when you add some of that cream sauce?



Let's just say this didn't last too long. Good thing this was my dinner... ok ok I ate some tortellini too, so kill me.

Enjoy!

<3 Courtzilla