Comfort Food

Yesterday morning I woke up to beautiful sunshine. The promise of gorgeous weather after a ridiculously humid & stormy Saturday made me want a delicious breakfast to go along with it. I'm not much of a breakfast eater. In fact, I usually will only eat breakfast foods when someone else prepares them. Hopefully my future husband (whomever he may be) gets that message early on, cause it'll be a rare and special event that gets me cooking breakfast foods.

Anyways, I was in the mood for something... comforting. I centered on pancakes or french toast, both of which remind me of my childhood. My mom & I made a lot of pancakes and french toast when I was a kid - both allowed me to help with the cooking, and it was something we both liked a lot. Considering I don't have the recipe that I love for pancakes in my apartment (and didn't feel like calling home to get it), I decided on french toast.

We had some leftover italian bread - soft, almost Wonderbread-like stuff. Perfect, since I grew up on white bread that never died. Unfortunately, our eggs were way past their prime and we were out of syrup. A quick run to the store fixed that (thank GOD we live a block from the grocery store), and 30 minutes later I had my french toast.

For a single (large-ish) serving of "Mom's French Toast":

2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
1 T. cinnamon
1 T. milk
2 T. butter (for pan)






Blend together, soak bread slices on each side until thoroughly coated in egg mixture. Cook in buttered frying pan until both sides are golden brown. Lather on butter and drown in syrup... and enjoy!



It was good, but not the same, not right. I'm fairly certain that I will never be able to make it taste the same as my mother's french toast. That makes me a little sad, that I can't reproduce the flavors I remember from my childhood. I guess that's a part of growing up, be it slightly depressing, that you can't always have things the same. Perhaps I'll just have to convince my mother to make me some (as I'm quite sure that's step one of getting anything to taste better - have someone else make it for you!).