English Muffins Turned Into French Toast

May 20, 2008 by Jill  
Filed under Breads, Breakfast, Simple Recipes

Let me assure you, using whole wheat English muffins in place of regular French bread to make French toast is perfectly delicious!

You know how those mornings go. You want to eat a particular breakfast, but you don't have all the exact ingredients. Well, I wanted French toast and only had day old whole wheat English muffins in the pantry.

WOW! They turned out GREAT! My kids (who I thought would freak out) totally chowed down. I followed French toast recipe just as normal and everything turned out fine.

HERE'S ALL IT TAKES

  • 6 slices whole wheat English muffins
  • 1/2 cup healthy egg substitute, or 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • pinch of salt
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • 2 tablespoon butter for frying
  • Pure Maple Syrup

Very Important First Step:

Heat oven to 400F degrees and heat up griddle pan on medium heat.

Mix the healthy egg substitute, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg in a LARGE bowl; large enough to hold all 6 slices of bread.

Allow the bread to soak up all the liquid in the bowl.

Melt butter on griddle pan for an even coating. Add bread slices and cook for one minute on each side, until light golden brown.

Transfer bread slices to a ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from pan, drizzle with a little pure Maple syrup and serve HOT!

Tastes great with a side of oven fried bacon and fruit salad.

To get a great visual on how to cook French Toast restaurant style, go watch Chef John make French Toast. He's pretty funny and he keeps cooking fun and easy.

Great Cooks County Fair

May 9, 2008 by Jill  
Filed under Promotionals

With all the wonderful folks in one place over at Great Cooks Community.com (GCC), we couldn’t help stir up something new and fun for our community.

Our good friend, Lisa Rohner of ChefMomCooks has stepped up to be our GCC Food Events Coordinator. We are thrilled to have her experience, creative style, and enthusiasm leading us to a whole new level of fun and fellowship.

The Great Cooks County Fair (GCCF) will begin by sponsoring one food event each month. Participants will have an opportunity to show off their delicious home cooking, rally their friends and family to vote for their recipe entry, promote their homeblogs (if they're food bloggers), and win a prize or award ribbon! But that’s not all folks…

As Great Cooks Community members, we will show our support to our fellow food bloggers by using our favorite social bookmarking sites, such as Stumble Upon, del.icio.us, etc. to promote the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winner’s winning recipes posted on the winner’s homeblog (if they're food bloggers).

Think about this my food blogging friends… Today, we have 177 members in our community. Imagine 177 people Stumbling your blog! Consider the amount of traffic. I sure hope the winner's servers can handle the load.

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO RIGHT NOW

First, go join the Great Cooks County Fair Group.

Second, go read the rules for participation. VERY IMPORTANT STEP HERE.

Third, go back to your homeblog(s) and write a post about this terrific new food event taking off! Tell your readers they don’t need a blog to post a recipe or vote for your recipe entry. They just need to be a member of Great Cooks Community.

Spread the word on every food forum you hang out on, other food community networks, Facebook, Stumble the Great Cooks County Fair group page, email every food lover you know.

FOR HEAVENS SAKES- DO NOT SPAM JUST EVERYONE YOU KNOW. Remember this is a food community, we want to enrich it with folks who have a serious interest in cooking, baking, preserving food, food photography, food writers, recipe swappers. It's VERY IMPORTANT that we keep the comfort and joys of membership a positive experience for all.

There are opportunities to become Hosts and Moderators for the Great Cooks County Fair food events. Please contact Lisa Rohner, the GCC Food Events Planner, from her Great Cooks page.
We look forward to seeing everyone participating and coming together for all the awesome fellowship, recipes, encouragement and traffic building opportunities.

Have FUN!