French Toast

So what do you do when your apartment complex has a red beans and rice night at the office and they give you 3 loaves of sliced bread that nobody touched when it is all over? French Toast for the freezer of course!


INGREDIENTS


Cooking spray (Optional)
2 Loaves sliced bread
8-10 Large eggs (divided)
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon (divided)
1 tsp Vanilla extract  (divided)
1 tsp Almond extract (divided)
1 cup Cold milk (divided)
Soft butter or margarine (as much as it takes) (divided)


I have a 10" non stick skillet I use for cooking most everything in so it will only fit so much. So I "Just whack it in half!! Just whack it!" for cooking in batches.


DIRECTIONS

Slice and butter all the bread. Set it aside for now and pull out your blender. Add half of everything into the blender and mix at a medium speed. Let it go for a bit and get nice a frothy. Empty it into a dish and start dipping your bread in. Cook on a med/high heat for about a minute or less per side. When the egg mixture starts to get flat, add it back to the blender and froth it up some more, and repeat. keep doing this until all your bread is done.


-TIPS-


-Prep your bread the night before and let it sit out with a towel over it so it gets a little stiff, this will help the butter absorb better and helps when you're drenching it in egg to not tear apart in your hands.

-If you don't want to take the time to butter each piece of bread front and back you can just add the butter to the egg before you blend it all together and that should give you the same results.

-Half and Half, whipping cream, cream cheese (light and small amounts), yogurt, or instant pudding mix is also good to put in instead of milk... will give you lots of depth.

-If you trust your non stick skillet well enough, you don't NEED the cooking spray.

-Vegetarian diets and others like it can sub out so much in this. Bake your own bread, use "Silk" instead of milk, almond, and vanilla. Egg substitute rather than eggs. and a non stick pan to cook in.

-Use a couple paper towels to wipe out the pan every few sets in the pan. You are going to get parts of egg that don't come out and are going to burn, you don't want the next set to pick them up and mess with your flavor.