Recipe 25: French Toast Churros

I found this recipe for French Toast Roll-Ups on The Girl Who Ate Everything.  And it was delicious - like fruit filled churros, leave a smile on your face, go back for more, yummy.  Here's the recipe off the website:

• 8 slices white sandwich bread  *(make sure it is soft, or it will fall apart)
• softened cream cheese, diced strawberries, or Nutella
• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 heaping teaspoon ground cinnamon
• butter, for greasing the pan

1. Cut the crust from each slice of bread and flatten it out with a rolling pin.
2. Place about 1-2 teaspoons of your chosen filling 1 inch from one end of the bread in a strip. Roll the bread up tightly and repeat with the remaining pieces of bread. 
3. In a shallow bowl whisk the eggs and milk until well combined.
4. In a separate shallow bowl mix the sugar with the cinnamon.
5. Heat a skillet set over medium heat and melt a tablespoon of butter.
6. Dip each bread roll in the egg mixture coating well and then place them in the pan seam side down. Cook in batches until golden brown, turning them to cook and brown on all sides, about 2 minutes per side. Add butter to the pan as needed.
7. Put cooked rolls immediately from the pan to the cinnamon sugar and roll until completely covered in sugar. You can serve with syrup for dipping but I think they're perfectly good all by themselves.

I followed her "inspired by" link and they had more suggestions for fillings - peanut butter, jelly, dulce de leche, marshmallow fluff, any kind of fruit, preserves.  I made some with jelly and some with bananas.  Yum.  I didn't dredge in cinnamon, just sprinkled, and that was plenty.  

I dipped the crust trimmings into the egg and cooked those up too.  They were like French toast French fries .. toast fries?  Appropriate to go with the "churros" - like carnival food.  Definitely a treat.


*Half way through March and already at 25 new recipes?  I'm well on my way to 100 new recipes in a year!

Easter Breakfast

So I really don't have a recipe for this, I don't even really have a name for it - but we have it every year in the days following Easter and it is so yummy. Not "knock your socks off" kind of yummy, but serious "comfort food" type of yummy.

Peel and chop of the died hard boiled eggs that are left - separating the whites from the yolks
Make a simple white sauce (plenty of salt and pepper)
Toss in the egg whites
Serve egg/white sauce on toast with crumbled egg yolks on top

I tend to make this every few months just because I like it, it is a lot more fun after Easter because you get a few spots of colored egg whites in the mix, festive and yummy, and a great way to use up hard boiled eggs.

Breakfast Casserole

We had this for breakfast every Christmas and Easter every year for as long as I can remember. I've started the tradition at our house! I make it the evening before and then it's ready to pop into the oven before church on Easter Sunday (or before stockings on Christmas morning...).

1 lb sausage

6 slices white bread, crusts removed

margarine, softened
1 1/2 C shredded cheddar cheese
5 eggs
2 C half and half
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dry mustard

Cook sausage and drain. Butter both sides of each slice of bread, then cut into cubes. Place bread in bottom of a 9X13 baking dish. Sprinkle with sausage, then top with cheese. Combine all other ingredients and beat well. Pour evenly into pan. Chill for at least 8 hours. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes.