French Onion Soup……IN THE CROCK POT!

The hubs and I LOVE French Onion soup, it is one of our all time favorite things to eat. The problem is, it takes FOREVER to cook it right. It takes so long and it’s a very meticulous process. One wrong move and the entire pot can be ruined. So I set out on a mission, to find a recipe for French Onion soup that could be made in the crock pot and left to simmer all day without damaging it or having it come out overcooked. I googled and found a few recipes but none of them looked like they would taste like my perfected from scratch recipe. So, I basically just adjusted my personal recipe a bit and tried it out tonight and it came out unbelievably delicious. This is my new favorite way to make our favorite soup! I hope that you try it out, share it with friends, and don’t forget to leave feedback!

Ingredients

. 3 Large White Onions
. 3 Medium Sized Yellow Onions
. 1/2 Cup Butter
. 2 Tblsp Brown Sugar
. 8 Cups Beef Broth
. 3 Beef Bullion Cubes
. 4 Chicken Bullion Cubes
. 2 Tblspn Minced Garlic
. 2 Tblspn Dried Parsley
. 6 Bay Leaves
. 1/2 Cup Merlot or other Dry Red Wine
. Canola Oil
. 1 Bag Texas Toast Croutons
. 1 Package Provolone Cheese Slices
. Oven Safe Soup Bowls (I recommend Pyrex)

(I know, it looks like a lot, but I promise, this is a really easy recipe)

Instructions

In large skillet, melt butter over medium-low heat

Quarter the white onions, and slice the yellow onions (I prefer this because it gives some different texture to the onions)
Add onions to the skillet and caramelize over medium-low heat

Add the brown sugar and continue to cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently

Turn crock-pot to “LOW” and add 4 cups of beef broth, garlic, bullion cubes, and bay leaves
Add wine to skillet and cook on low for an additional 3-5 minutes, stirring continuously

Remove skillet from heat and add contents to crock pot
Add parsley and remaining beef broth, stir

Cover and cook on “LOW” for 8 hours

At some point during the day, preferably in the beginning so that all of your prep work is done, add 1/2 inch canola oil to medium skillet and fry croutons evenly over medium-low heat. This is an important step, it’s important to slowly cook them until they are a darkened golden brown color then remove them from the heat and place them on a plate with paper towels to soak up the excess oil. They need to cool COMPLETELY throughout the day, which is why I recommend doing this right after you put all of your ingredients into the crock pot, then going ahead with this step so that it’s all done and knocked out quickly. You could also do this the night before and let them sit in a ziplock bag with paper towels until you need them the next day. Doing this process will ensure that when you add your croutons to the soup later, they won’t get soggy, if you don’t care whether your croutons are soggy or not, then you can eliminate this completely and not even worry about it.

Ok, so you’ve got your croutons cooling on a plate/bowl/bag whatever with paper towels and your soup is in the crock pot steadily cooking.

Enjoy your 8 hours! (this could cook longer if you needed it to, depending on work schedule, you could leave it 9 hours and everything would likely still taste just fine)

When it comes time to eat your delicious soup…..

Place the top rack in your oven close to the broiler. I place mine on the 2nd rack because the first rack is a little too close for comfort. I’m always terrified that I’m going to burn the cheese.

Take your oven safe soup bowls and place them on a cookie sheet

Place 1 slice of provolone cheese in the bottom of the bowls.

Add soup from crock pot to bowl until bowl is about 3/4 of the way full.

Add 5-7 croutons and place 2 more slices of cheese on top

Place cookie sheet in oven and BROIL only until cheese is browned on top. Do this at your discretion, I leave mine in about 5 minutes. Keep your eyes on it, because the cheese can burn really quickly depending on several factors.

Serve with a glass (or two) of the remaining wine from the bottle.

Bon Appetit!

Mason Jar Makeover!

Over this last weekend, the mister and I decided to elope! It was the most last minute decision, umm ever. We had about 36 hours to come up with some sort of “wedding” and about umm $0 to do it with. Time to get creative.

Basically, we ended up having a very simple backyard, barefoot, bluejean, get together with our closest friends here in Hawaii. Unfortunately, due to money constraints we couldn’t have everyone over that we wanted to, but it ended up being a good time even with a tiny group of friends.

Well, I couldn’t just do solo cups, I just couldn’t bring myself to do that. So I ended up throwing a little decor and crafting into it. I dug into my craft box and I had some red ribbon, and some rope left over from my wine bottle crafting adventures. The end result was a super cute, easy, and CHEAP (!) DIY makeover for our glassware of choice – mason jars, of course.

SO easy to do. I took the ribbon and the rope and tied them together as one piece.

Then, simply tied a bow.

Took my scissors and trimmed up the ropes a bit to get rid of the fuzz, and BOOM!

Freezer Cooking Update!

This post is a small update to my Freezer Cooking Extravaganza post.

So I’ve been slowly keeping my own reviews for all of these recipes stored in the back of my mind for a rainy day. Unfortunately, I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and we don’t have a lot of those. So I decided to just give a quick update for giggles. Here is a GREAT recipe for you to check out, feel free to share with your friends!

BEEF & BROCCOLI

Recipe Source – Beef And Broccoli Via Chef In Training

I found this recipe over at Chef In Training (GREAT blog by the way) but the grocery store didn’t have sesame oil, so I substituted olive oil and the recipe still came out amazing! This is definitely a new favorite in our house. My 8.5 month old really loved it too! She couldn’t get enough! I cooked it on LOW for 7 hours, but the recipe says that you can go up to 8 if need be. Obviously, if you throw it in frozen it could even cook a little longer. I don’t want to say exactly how much longer since I’m not sure specifically, but you can kind of play with it and figure out what works for you. I thawed the bag in the fridge over night and let it sit in the kitchen sink for about 2 hours before tossing it in the crock pot in the morning, so if it went straight from fridge to the crock pot I would assume that you could cook it on LOW for 9 hours and have it come out delicious.

So the way that I prepped and took care of this one was simple. I put everything except the broccoli, corn starch, and water into the freezer bag, and froze flat. Cooked all of it and in the last 30 minutes of cooking, mixed the corn starch and water, and added the broccoli. We didn’t serve with rice because we didn’t think we were that hungry. What ended up happening was us having zero leftovers and wishing we had made rice so that we could have stretched the meal to another dinner. It was just that good.

This recipe is seriously SO GOOD! Thanks so much to Chef In Training for putting it out there!

Freezer Cooking Extravaganza!

If you’ve been on Pinterest lately, you’ll likely notice that freezer cooking is all the craze! It makes sense, people [women] don’t want to work all day and then come home and cook dinner, stay at home moms don’t want to clean and keep up the house all day and then cook dinner only to have to clean the kitchen…..again. So, the idea is to spend the better part of 1 day, and prep a ton of meals then freeze them so that all you have to do is pull one out of the freezer before bed, and toss it in the crock pot the next morning before you leave. Then, BOOM, dinner is done when you get home. It’s brilliant. I don’t know WHY I never thought about this.

Well, being the imaginary overachiever that I like to think I am, I decided to give it a try…..for 30 days.

The problem is, I can’t fit 30 meals in my freezer, my freezer is tiny, teeny tiny. Plus, I don’t want to throw away my ice cream.

So I opted for 15 meals, I figure each meal can give me 1 night of leftovers. 30 days. Boom.

Let me just say this, it was exhausting. The mister had just had back surgery and was unable to help with the baby. The teething 8 month old baby. Thankfully, after about 6 hours of exhaustion from juggling angry baby and cooking/cleaning/prepping, I called my mom. My mom lives 6,000 miles away, but she has skype. So I put the baby in a laundry basket with a book and turned on the computer to call my mom, who was at a friends house at the time, but had her computer with her so she and her friend called me and digitally babysat, which kept my kid happy for the next 2-3 hours or so while I finished up my meals and cleaned my kitchen. Whew. Thanks Mom, and Ms. Pam. Yep, she played in a laundry basket with a book. Whatever works. I don’t ask questions.

Now, I have never cooked ANY of these meals before, so I have absolutely no idea what they are going to taste like, but I will be posting recipes and reviews with any recommendations that I have as the month continues. For now, I will just post some photos to hold ya over. This stuff takes a lot of time, and I don’t have much of it on hand today.

I was able to prep and freeze 12 of the 15 meals. My freezer wouldn’t hold any more, so 3 of the 15 will just be made regularly. Note to self, empty freezer completely next time. I could easily get 20 meals in there if I could get rid of everything else. Except ice, I need ice….and coffee creamer….and my salmon from Alaska. Hm.

Anyhow, the total cost for these 15 meals came out to $180.04 and I had about $8 in coupons for these items. So roughly $170, we’ll call it $175 for the sake of keeping things simple.

15 meals with 15 days worth of leftovers = 30 meals at $175 which comes to $5.83 per meal. Let’s call it $6.

$6 per meal, for a month.

$3 per person.

That my friends, is what Charlie Sheen refers to as “WINNING”

I just fed us for $3 per dinner for a month! (Sorry, I needed to type it again, because it’s exciting)

Now, OBVIOUSLY if you have more mouths to feed, this is going to cost more. I have just the two of us, since the little one isn’t on solids completely yet. But still, $3/person per day would remain the same if you have 2 more mouths to feed, the total cost would be double, but the breakdown per person would remain the same. Kind of hard to beat $3 for dinner.

Here are some simple instructions (it’s a really basic concept, buy freezer bags, prep meals, lay flat in freezer, close freezer)

First, start with an alcoholic beverage of your choosing. I had a glass[bottle] of Merlot.

Then, take your recipes and plan out your attack. I wrote the “to freeze” instructions on the back of my recipe index cards ahead of time, so that I didn’t have to go down the list and figure out what to freeze and how to do it. So when it came time for prepping, all I had to do was write the instructions on the bags. Do this before you put the meals in, so that it’s easy.

Then, prep your meals.

I did them one by one, some people chop ALL of the vegetables and prep all of the ingredients for the lot of the meals at once, then separate accordingly. Because I have a TEENY tiny kitchen, I decided one at a time was best to keep the mess under control. It worked too! I only had 1 dirty bowl, 1 dirty spoon, and 2 dirty knives when I was done.

I won’t bore you with individual pictures of all 12 meals, but this is the end result in the freezer.

*TIP* Place a paper towel or wax paper inbetween the meals so that the bags don’t stick together.

Yes, yes that is coffee creamer in the freezer. I don’t like to run out, so I buy 3-4 at a time and freeze all but one. When I notice that the one in the fridge is getting low, I pull one out of the freezer and put it in the fridge. I haven’t run out of coffee creamer in months.

Check back soon for recipes and reviews!

10 Creative Date Nights Under $50

As you may know, I live in Hawaii. Hawaii is great, but one thing that Hawaii is most definitely NOT…..is affordable. There are several challenges that couples face as we walk through this path that is called “life” and one of them is making time for each other. Some couples are great at this, some couples are not. The mister and I? We are definitely the latter. It seems like there is never enough time or energy at the end of the day for us to just enjoy being us. Kid, dog, work, life, it all gets so overwhelming and exhausting and the absolute last thing that either of us want to do at the end of the day is put effort into one.more.thing. That’s horrible right? Well, it was….until……….

Enter my best girlfriend here in Hawaii.

Shirley and I have been friends for just over a year now and I must say she is quite the catch. She and her husband are one of the couples that is really great at making time for each other. I don’t have any idea HOW she manages to hold it all together. Kid, work, husband, life, you know……that “L” word. Life. Ugh. Anyhow, being the great friend that she is, she sent me some blog inspiration via Facebook. She suggested that I do a “Frugal Dating” type of post, which would be great……..if I could tell you anything about dating. Seriously, my idea of a “date” is going to Target, with the baby and the mister. Oh boy. So, not wanting to “steal her thunder” so to speak, I asked her if she would like to be a guest blogger on my site. I think she might have been more excited than she wanted to admit, because just a few hours later she emailed me the following tips and tricks for affordable dating, these are really great, especially for new parents. If you try any of these, don’t forget to take pictures, “Like” my page on Facebook, and share your affordable date story!

So, without further ado, enjoy!

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10 Fun Date Nights Under $50

(All estimated prices include a babysitter and/or having to purchase everything that you need, so if you already have things on hand, or don’t have children, your cost will be even less)

1. Champagne Date

What You Need:
A few good appetizers
Outdoor Seating (a blanket would suffice)
Ambiance (candles are cheap, or if you have some Christmas lights or outdoor rope lights, use those)

Cost: $20 – $35

Recommended adult beverage for the night: Duh! Champagne!!!

This is by far our favorite go-to date. After a long hard week, our back patio with some candles and some cold bubbly is just what the doctor ordered. Why wait for a special occasion to pop a cork? Plus you don’t have to hire a sitter since the baby monitor can just come out back with you. Some baby quiche or chips and dip work perfectly for us as we cheers and reconnect while enjoying the fresh outside air. You can always go pricey on the champagne if you want, but we usually stick with an easy Korbel Brut for about $10-$12 each. Add $5-$10 for an appetizer or two of your choice and you’ve got a great night of romantic chilling for about $35.

2. Brothel Bed Date

What You Need:

Every pillow and blanket you own
A good movie or two
Popcorn
Tray for snacks/drinks

Cost: $30-$40 (or less if you already have booze)

Recommended adult Beverage for the Night: Blueberry vodka and sprite (or any other new cocktail recipe you’ve been dying to try)

You’ll have to forgive the date title, but when we push the coffee table out the way and throw all of our pillows and blankets on the floor in our living room, those are indeed the first words that come to mind. Grab a movie or two and cuddle up anywhere on the floor for a super comfortable viewing experience. If you have a breakfast-in-bed tray it would be ideal to set up for your beverages and popcorn since there are usually too many soft surfaces to balance a drink on. Also a great night with no sitter required! Cocktail supplies can get pricey though so keep your recipe simple. A fifth and a mixer is super easy and can go for about $20-$25. One or two Redbox movies for $2 and a box of popcorn for $6 and you’ve got a great night for $40 or less.

3. Museum Date

What You Need:
Sitter
Local Museum

Cost: Roughly $50 – Call around local museums for rates

Recommended Adult Beverage: It’s a damn museum ya’ lush!

The best thing about museums and historical sites is that (for the most part) they’re free! You can both nerd out at the air and space museum, learn something new at your local battlefield/memorial, or re-culture yourself at an art show. This date will get you out, walking, and talking about something other than shitty diapers and bills. A sitter would be needed ($20-$30), maybe a trip to the food court after the tour ($10-$15), a possible admission fee or donation to the site ($5-$10) and you’re looking at education, exercise, and smooching behind that priceless Rembrandt for about $50!

4. Board Game or Puzzle Date

What You Need:
Board game for two or puzzle
Snacks

Cost: $0 – $40

Recommended Adult Beverage: Stick to beer or wine, you might need your wits about you!

The best pros for this date are that if you already have a board game or puzzle, then your only cost is food and drink! If not a game or puzzle runs about $20 so not horrible and still enough extra dough for libations and munchies. Sit on down and have an invigorating game of chess, a fun game of monopoly, or finally put together that giant wilderness wolf that’s been sitting in your closet for five years. It’s nice to get away from the TV and actually talk to each other once in a while… and again: no sitter required! Your grand total will be about $40 bucks if you have to buy everything. Anything you can use from the house though is saving you some green.

5. Hiking Date

What You Need:
Good trail applicable to both of your physical statuses
Water
Picnic
Sitter

Cost: $0 – $50

Recommended Adult Beverage: I would stick with water especially if the hike is strenuous. If it’s a short walk to a nice view though feel free to throw a bottle a wine in with your picnic.

This excursion is completely customizable to you and your date. If you’re wild and crazy adventurers looking for that rock climbing rush then stick to light snacks and water for your endurance trek to uncharted locations. If you’re both a little more reserved and just looking for a leisurely stroll to a scenic overlook then pack a small picnic that you can enjoy while taking in the view. So between the sitter ($20-$30), your picnic ($15-20) and the fact that almost all hiking trails are free of charge, you’re looking at an under $50 date with some great pictures as memories.

6. Thrifty Date

What You Need:
Sitter
About $20 in cash
Sense of Humor

Cost – $0 – $40

Recommended Adult Beverage: You want to drink and thrift?? This is not Honey-Boo-Boo-Child.

Easy and fun date at your local thrift store. Head in with 5 bucks each and see who can find the neatest thing in their budget. Then enjoy each other’s company as you stroll around town. (Very “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” only less shoplifting.) I recommend a stop to a pretzel or hot dog stand along the way. Maybe get one of those giant-so-not-good-for-you-double-chocolate-fudge cookies to split. Fun and easy date for about $40.

7. Day Swim Date

What You Need:
Beach chairs/towels
A free weekday
A cooler

Cost: $20 – $50

Recommended Adult Beverage: Whatever refreshment you prefer at the water. I prefer light beer myself.

I love it when we are both randomly able to play hookie from work. Not always feasible, but so much fun especially if the kids are in school or otherwise being watched. Send them off in the morning and then head out to the nearest beach, lake, river, swimming pool, etc. Pack a cooler of beers and have your very own waterside party for two. Go swimming, get a tan, take a nap, read a book, build a damn sand castle for all I care just enjoy yourself and each other. Plus a weekday most likely won’t produce a crowd. So if you need a sitter then factor in your standard price ($20-$30), a sixer of your favorite brews for about $10 and any snacks for another $10 and you have a nice waterside date for under $50. And bonus: no diaper bags, beach toys, kid floaties, or children to be paranoid about drowning! Just you two. Enjoy it.

8. Theme Date Night

What You Need:
Pandora station for theme music
Groceries for theme dinner
Ingredients for theme cocktail

Cost: $20 – $40

Recommended Adult Beverage: Which ever compliments your theme the best (in this case margaritas)

We love to do Mexican night because (it’s the cheapest) you can get taco shells, ground beef, a head of lettuce, a block of cheese, a tomato, sour cream, etc all for about $20. Factor in another $15 for tequila and margarita mix and you’ve got yourselves a south of the border feast. Switch on some Pandora Latin guitar music and you’ll think you’re sitting on the gulf with your Spanish flame by your side… ok. Well. It will take a few margaritas to get you there but you see my point. So $40 for Mexican taco night plus it’s totally doable after the kids go to bed. Other theme ideas:

- Italian food, red wine, and favorite Italian singer
- Japanese stir fry, warm Sake, and some Okinawan folk music
- Bratwurst and sauerkraut, a good dark beer, and you favorite accordion artist?

Well you get the idea. Get creative!

9. Trivia Date

What You Need:
Local Pub Trivia Night
Sitter
Your big sexy brain

Cost: $40 – $50

Recommended Adult Beverage: Whatever is on happy hour!

If you look up local Pub Trivia, chances are one of your local bar has it going on consistently on one of their weeknights. These can be so much fun and even better if you bring another couple for your team. (More brains to draw from = a better chance of winning) The bar usually has some kind of happy hour or special going on so as long as you stick to that you tab should be relatively cheap. Also the prize for a lot of pub trivia games is a gift certificate to the bar, so more motivation to win and have your tab covered! Factor in the sitter ($20-$30) and keep your bar tab under $20 and this can easily be a date night under $50.

10. Bike Date

What You Need:
Two bicycles (If you don’t have bicycles, look around for local rental shops, or check on Craigslist)
Sitter
Picnic

Cost: $40 – $50

Recommended Adult Beverage: Favorite Bottle of White Wine

Everyone has some form of a bicycle or a friend who has one. Worse case scenario if you can’t dust off yours or borrow from a friend I suppose a local place might rent for cheap but remember we are on a budget! Try and find one for free if you can. (More money for previously mentioned picnic and wine This date is nice because you can get a little exercise and explore places in your area you’ve probably never been to. Riding a bike there is a different perspective and it’s nice to be outside together doing anything. A sitter for $20-$30, a light picnic for $10-$15 and a bottle of wine for $10 and you have roughly a $50 date. Enjoy!

Note from the Author:

All of these dates are rough estimates of what I would pay. If you have better and more expensive taste than I do (you probably do) then feel free to splurge on what you two like personally. Even with a splurge here and there, these options are all way cheaper (and more fun) than your classic dinner and a movie.

Also you may be thinking to yourself that this woman has no freakin’ idea what a baby sitter costs these days. Yep. You’re probably right. In my defense though most of my friends can be bought-off to baby sit with a six pack or a bottle of some sort which almost always runs me less than $20. Also think about talking to one of your friends with kids and seeing if you can come up with a kind of baby exchange program where you take their kids for a couple date nights too. That way everyone gets out more and gets laid more and we’re all a fan of that.

This might go without saying too, but for the love of god UNPLUG when you go out. I understand if you have kids, keep your phone on in case of emergencies of course, but your e-mail, work, facebook account, and fantasy football league, will all be there when you get back. Don’t be one of those couples who sits across from each other at the table texting for 3 hours. Lame.
Most importantly, take advantage of any date you can! Sure it takes a little effort to plan and get all dolled up, but you’re in a relationship. Not dead. Live a little and appreciate that fine piece of ass you get to sleep next to every night. Have fun, hope these help, and good luck!

Saturday Crafting

Ermagosh, it’s been way too long since I posted anything!!! I fail. Forgive me? No? B…bu…but I will post pretty pictures of wine bottles!

See? Forgive me now? Thanks.

Not only am I going to show you my fabulous wine bottles, I’m going to tell you how I made them. Actually, if you look at them, you can probably figure it out for yourself. What fun is that though?

Step 1 – Gather all of your “useless ribbon/rope/craft crap” (I happen to have a box of it)
Step 2 – Drink wine. No wait, that’s step 1. Actually, if we’re being honest, that’s not even a step. Step 1 should be “Rinse out and remove label from the wine bottle that you just drank, lush”
Step 3 – Find a glue gun, and scissors

Put the “useless ribbon/rope/craft crap” that you plan on using in a pile, and take a pretty picture. Or don’t. I did.

Step 4 – Figure out what the heck you’re going to do with all of it.

I started by checking out my material and getting rid of the stuff I would end up not using. So I put the burlap ribbon and the cotton twine back into my “moms craft box” and went ahead and plugged in the glue gun. (they don’t work if you don’t plug them in, by the way)

I chose to make 2 different “looks” for the bottles, so we’ll start with “Bottle A”

Step 5 – Find a point on the bottle that you’d like the rope/twine/string/yarn to end at. I opted to start from the bottom and work my way up.

Put a pretty generous amount of hot glue on the strand and use the scissors or glue gun tip to hold it in place while it sets a little bit. Then you can start wrapping the threading of your choice around the bottle.

When you get to a point that you think it looks good, go ahead and stop, and repeat the glue generosity at the end of the string.

If the string of your choice is furry and messy, go ahead and give it a hair cut. Mine looked like a surfer on acid, no joke.

I chose to just use one simple flower for “Bottle A” and keep it neat and clean.

TADAAAA!!!!!!!

I couldn’t stop with “Bottle A” so I decided to make “Bottle B”. Feeling frisky, I decided to use the last 5 flowers that I had. I have had these stupid flowers for a hot minute, and have been just waiting on a project for them. I didn’t want to just throw them away, despite my obsessive need for purging junk. Clearly, keeping them was a brilliant idea.

Ok, “Bottle 2″ here we go.

As you can see, it’s the same basic concept. I actually debated whether or not I wanted to do one solid band of flowers around the middle or do a funky little swirl of flowers. Obviously I chose the funky swirls, because I like funky swirls.

The swirls came to mind because I had the two ends on opposite sides of the bottle and I didn’t want it to look unfinished. So, staring at my bottle I decided to just go for it. Whew, living on the edge. I don’t know if the OCD “crazy person” inside of me was just looking for a way to escape or not, but I needed to use a copious amount of glue to hold down the rope. Who am I kidding, it was absolutely my inner psycho.

At this point, it was too late to stuff the crazy back in, so I proceeded with my overly analytical shenanigans and decided that I should first glue the flowers on either side where the rope ends at the top and bottom. You see how much thought process went into these bottles? It’s serious.

Well, then I had to make it even. Yes, I realize that I’m working with an odd number of flowers, but the placement can be specific, right? Right. So I put the inside flowers on, and then the last one being the middle flower. By the way, I recommend doing a “beauty check” on all of your flowers before gluing them on, figure out exactly which ones should go where. I assume things could get a little crazy if I wasn’t using the exact same flower. Can you imagine? “Which one, carnation then rose, or rose then carnation” Oyi.

LOOK! Pretty wine bottle!

And now, these two beauties are chilling on the bookcase/bar in our dining room, adding character to our home!

French Toasty

I’m on a coconut syrup kick right now, hardcore. I want waffles and berries and coconut syrup for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Yep, that’s probably pretty healthy.

Well, not that French Toast is much better, but I’ve never made it, so I was up for a challenge.

FYI – I haven’t eaten french toast since I was a kid….I forgot how delicious it was. I decided to make some very simple, yet awesome French Toast for breakfast today.

You will need:

Coconut Syrup (make sure to shake it reeeally good)
Mixed Berries (I happened to have some frozen ones that I bought and packaged for smoothies for the mister, smoothies that he never made. “Oh babe if you make me smoothie packs, I’ll definitely make them.” Yeah….they’ve been in the freezer for 2 months. -_- )
1 Loaf of Hawaiian Sweet Bread (Ok, I used this, you could use ANY type of bread, but white/potato/sweet tastes the best)
4 Eggs
1 Cup of Milk
Pinch of Salt
Powdered Sugar (like, 4 tablespoons)
Cooking Spray (some people use butter, but cooking spray isn’t as awful for your arteries)

 

Warm medium skillet over medium-low heat
In medium bowl, whisk eggs, milk, and salt until well mixed
Spray skillet with cooking spray
Grab one slice of bread and soak it in the egg/milk mixture for just a few seconds, until it’s well coated
Place in skillet and cook just like you would a grilled cheese sandwich, just a few minutes on each side

Place finished toast on plate, top with berries, 1 tblspon of powdered sugar, and coconut syrup to taste.

MMMmm Good!