French Toast Tartar

French toast. One of my all-time favorite breakfast foods. Delicious with just about anything (strawberries, whipped cream, maple syrup, strawberry jam, butter), but overall, pretty easy to make. Unfortunately yesterday was not my day.

I had been planning to make my delicious french toast recipe (passed down from my mom) on Labor Day for days! I had been craving it, drooling over it, and probably dreaming about it in my sleep...So when I woke up on Monday I got right into the kitchen and started cooking. Mixed up my batter, heated my griddle, and got my spatula (pink of course). Now, you think the batter would be the part where I screwed up, but nope. I dipped my bread wrong (if that even seems possible). Having mixed my batter in a batter bowl, I had to push the bread all the way into the batter to soak both sides (rather than just flipping it in the mixture). This made my toast extremely soggy. You also might think I might have noticed there was a problem before I threw it on the griddle, but you would be wrong again. I placed my toast on the griddle, let it cook, flipped it, and removed it once it was perfectly golden brown on both sides. My husband and I sit down to eat and dive into our first bites. Finding out all too soon that the centers of my toast are eggy, soggy, and not at all cooked.

The toast may have been salvageable, but I was not sure what would have been the next step. Do I put it back on the griddle? Bake it in the oven? Just pop it in the microwave? I was lost, frustrated, and hungry. I was unable to trouble-shoot my french toast fiasco.

If you plan to make french toast in the near future, I would recommend not soaking your bread as heavily as I did, or, just simply check that first piece of toast to make sure it is indeed...done.

F.Y.I My favorite way to eat french toast is with strawberry jam, made with the freezer jam recipe on the Sure-Jell box. It is amazing and I could eat that stuff by the jar-full! Highly recommend trying it yourself if you like jam!