Posts Tagged ‘French toast ideas’

Great Training Fuel: French Toast Taken From “Simple to Exciting” – All in Pictures

Yesterday’s post showed how to use your favorite bread to make French toast either in the pan or microwave oven.  As mentioned in that post, the I bread used to make French toast last weekend was Seeded Levain bread from the BirchTree Bread Co. in Worcester, MA. (That bread, by the way, goes great with your favorite cheese, nut butter, and much more – terrific stuff!)

What you see below is all I needed to power a fantastically invigorating 60+ mile Bicycles Battling Cancer training ride from my town, Westborough, MA, through Northborough, Boylston, Sterling, Clinton, Bolton, Harvard, Read more »

12 Days to Cancer Ride and French Toast Training Fuel

 

12 days to the 100 mile Bicycles Battling Cancer ride through Central Massachusetts – you bet, I’d appreciate your support.

Regarding training, French toast, which combines sustained energy from the protein in eggs with the more immediate energy provided by complex carbohydrates in bread, is a great fuel for a good ride, run, or any activity that keeps your body in motion. I made the French toast shown above with a great local find: Seeded Levain bread from the BirchTree Bread Co. in Worcester, MA – I’ll be back for more soon! Tomorrow I’ll show how to take the French Toast I made above from “Simple to Exciting” to power a gorgeous 60+ mile training ride last weekend.

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Microwave Oven Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures

Microwave Oven Cooked French ToastThe only downside to making French toast in the microwave oven is that you can’t get the slightly crisp crust on the surface of the bread the way you can when your cook French toast in the frying pan. But the positives way outnumber that one slight negative. For me, the coolest thing about making French toast in the microwave oven – aside from it’s fantastic flavor – is using the same plate to soak, cook, and eat the French toast from, which greatly cuts down on cleanup afterwards.

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Powering Up with Microwave Cooked Power French Toast – All in Pictures




Stage 13 & MW Cooked Power French ToastWhoa, the men of the Tour de France had a tough day yesterday from St. Etienne to Chamrousse with a numbing 3000 foot climb for the last 8 or so miles. Ouch! And, still, Vincenzo Nibali leads the way.

And, today – almost all uphill climbing from Grenoble to Risoul. Ow!

The men will need power. Here’s a great power meal – with a good shot of French: Microwave Cooked Power French Toast.

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Wake Up to the Tour with Pan Cooked French Toast and a Choice of Toppings – All in Pictures

Tour & French Toast

The Tour on TV and the smell of butter, eggs, bread, and a good shot of ground cinnamon cooking in the frying pan! Click either the picture above or directly below for a complete, easy to follow step-by-step picture book recipe.

As for toppings, sure, you can use traditional maple syrup.

French Toast & Maple SyrupBut just click any of the pictures below for picture book recipes that show how to put together very easy and terrifically flavorful alternative toppings. As always, what you see in those recipes works fine but is just intended to fire up your imagination. Try something different and make it all yours!

French Toast with Yogurt, Jam & Fresh Fruit French Toast with Nut Butter & Jam

French Toast with a Savory Topping

 

 

French Toast with Yogurt, Jam & Fresh Fruit – All in Pictures

French Toast with Yogurt, Fresh Fruit & JamHere’s all you need to make another energy-sustaining, fully flavorful alternative to maple syrup French toast topping with yogurt, jam, fresh fruit, and dried fruit. If you’re using leftover French toast, just do what I did with the piece of French toast you see below and give it a quick 30 second blast in the microwave oven before laying on the topping. Easy!

French Toast with Yogurt, Fresh Fruit & Jam IngredientsJust click any picture on this page for a complete, easy to follow, and newly revised French Toast with Yogurt, Jam & Fresh Fruit step-by-step picture book recipe.

French Toast with Yogurt, Fresh Fruit & Jam Picture Book Recipe

Pan Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures

Pan Cooked French ToastI don’t know about you, but I sure love the smell of butter, eggs, bread, vanilla extract and ground cinnamon cooking in the morning. Great stuff!

French toast cooking in a frying pan

Here’s what it takes to put together fresh pan cooked French toast.

Pan Cooked French Toast Ingredients

Click any picture on this page for a complete, freshly revised and more colorful step-by-step picture book recipe.

Pan Cooked French Toast Picture Book Recipe

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