I'm not much of a breakfast person...but if I DO eat it, I tend to gravitate to pancakes or french toast...muffins or bagels...that sort of thing. Most of the time when I cook breakfast, it's for dinner. So the other night when I couldn't think of anything else to make for dinner, I decided to make french toast. On a whim, I added some brown sugar. I've added granulated sugar from time to time but adding the brown sugar was the way to go! I told IT Guy that this was the best french toast I'd ever had in my life. It didn't need any syrup...but I'm nobody's fool...I added it anyway. But man-oh-man...was this ever tasty!!!

Brown Sugar French Toast

 

3 eggs
1/2 cup to 3/4 cup half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 loaf french bread, sliced 1/2 thick
butter for the pan

In a baking dish, beat the eggs with the half and half, vanilla and salt. Stir in the brown sugar.

Lay a few slices of bread in the egg mixture and allow it to soak for 3 - 5 minutes, flipping once halfway through.

Heat a large skillet on medium heat and melt some butter in the hot skillet.

Add the soaked bread and cook until golden brown. Flip to brown the other side.

Place on a cookie sheet and keep in a warm oven until all the bread is cooked.

Serve with maple syrup.

Here's the stuff for the yummiest 

french toast on the planet.

Mix the eggs, half and half, vanilla and salt.

Then add the brown sugar.

Let the bread soak for a few minutes.

 Both sides.

Then toss in a pan to cook.

Flip once to reveal the golden 

brown puffed up deliciousness.

Serve with maple syrup 

or whatever makes you smile.

My mom picked me up a waffle iron the other day so my mind's been whirling with ideas. I'm not a big breakfast eater but I do like breakfast food and waffles are right up there on my list. I decided to tweak a recipe to include orange juice in the waffles AND the syrup. Oh my....what a delight! The hint of orange in the waffles was so fun but the syrup is what made the whole thing! A touch of cinnamon finished it off to perfection.

Orange Juice Waffles 
with Cinnamon Orange Syrup



2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 eggs
1  cup warm milk
½ cup orange juice
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar; set aside. Preheat waffle iron to desired temperature.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs. Stir in the milk, butter, orange juice and vanilla.

Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture; beat until blended.

Ladle the batter into a preheated, greased waffle iron. Cook the waffles until golden and crisp.

Serve immediately with Cinnamon Orange Syrup

Cinnamon Orange Syrup

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Combine all ingredients in a medium sized sauce pan. Heat to boiling and allow to simmer on low for about 10 minutes until thick and syrup-y. Serve warm with Orange Juice Waffles.

 

Here's what you'll need for the waffles and the syrup.

Put the dry ingredients in a bowl.

Add the wet stuff.

Combine them to get this!

Pour into your prepared waffle iron and cook!

Heat up the water, sugar, cinnamon and oj concentrate 

and let it simmer until nice and thick and gooey.

Pour the syrup over the waffles and enjoy!