French toast just like mommy made
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Serves: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 8 minutes
Ingredients
4 eggs
1/4 cup of milk
tsp real vanilla extract
loaf of day old raisin challah
cinnamon
1/4 stick of butter
Grade A or B maple syrup
Method
- Mix eggs, milk, vanilla extract in a large bowl.
- Melt butter in large sauce pan over a medium flame.
- Slice day old challah into 1/2 inch slices.
- Soak bread in egg mixture.
- Turn up the heat to medium-high, put slices of bread into melted butter, let cook 3 to 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Sprinkle cinnamon on bread, flip bread and cook other side for a few minutes until browned.
Place 2 or 3 slices on a plate. Serve nice and hot, with maple syrup. Yummm, goes great with a big glass of chocolate milk.
I had an idea for a tropical drink, so I did a web search and found a bunch of similar drinks. Eh who cares, I figure I'd share anyway...
SUNSHINE DAYDREAM
- 4 parts - Grey Goose® L'Orange vodka
- 1 part - Triple Sec
- Splash of Cranberry Juice
- Key Lime Juice
- crushed ice
- slice of orange (or other citrus)
- Shake vodka, triple sec and ice until very cold
Rinse a cold martini glass with key lime juice and discard juice
Pour ice cold vodka mixture in martini glass, hit with a splash of cranberry juice and garnish with a slice of fruit
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Serves: 8
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 60 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
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Ingredients
2 Lbs boneless Chicken
2 Lbs Andoule Sausage
2 Green Bell Peppers diced
2 Red Bell Peppers diced
4 medium onions diced
1 bulb garlic minced
5 stalks celery diced
4 cups rice
7 cups water
2 cans tomato sauce (8 oz cans)
2 bushels scallions
Creole Spice mixture
Crystal Hot Sauce (on table)
Tabasco Hot Sauce (cook with)
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Method
- Cut sausage into ½ in slices, cook in a pot large enough to prepare all food. Add some Tabasco.
- Remove sausage, leave oil/grease in pan.
- Cook chicken in remaining oil/grease, add Creole spices, Tabasco.
- Remove chicken, leave oil/grease in pan.
- Sautee vegetables in oil, add a bit more if necessary along with more Creole spices
- Remove vegetables.
- Add rice, tomato sauce and water, bring to a boil, reduce to simmer
- Add sausage
- Add chicken
- Add vegetables
- Do not stir!
Cook about 40 minutes,
Stir, taste the rice, if crunchy, cook some more.