Are you looking for something different for a morning holiday meal? Check out this recipe from The Food Channel for their Egg Nog Rum French Toast — a perfect holiday breakfast or brunch for the adults in the family. This is wonderful with fresh fruit and can be complemented with toasted or candied nuts or even warm rum soaked sugared raisins. This recipe also can be done with 1/2 teaspoon of rum extract in place of the dark rum.
This is also a popular late-night breakfast for after Christmas Eve services or following the New Years Eve festivities.
Egg Nog Rum French …read more

A basic French Toast recipe calls for eggs, milk, bread, butter. You beat the eggs in a bowl, stir in some milk, dip the bread slices into the mixture, transfer the soaked bread to a heated, buttered pan and toast till golden brown. It’s delicious served this way. How else can you spice it up? How else do you make it your own? Here are some ideas to make French Toast more interesting:
1. Bake it. Cook in an oven instead of the stove top.
2. Add other ingredients to the egg-milk mixture like vanilla, cinnamon, nuts (almonds are good!), honey, brown …read more

I can’t read or hear the word “waffles” without hearing Donkey’s voice in the movie Shrek…”and in the morning, I’m making WAF-fles!”  Nothing would please me more than having something like that made for me, especially for Mother’s Day!  Shrek might have been an old grump about it, but I can assure you I wouldn’t be 

Chef Jim Coleman’s “Easy French Toast Waffles” are as delicious to eat as they are fun to make. This easy recipe is sure to delight both the cook and the recipient with its homemade waffle goodness and French Toast origins. Created by the …read more

9:00 AM – Apparently the natives were outside long enough to sleep in a bit. No time for a lazy Saturday morning, however. There’s a soccer game in a little over an hour.
10:00 AM – Off to Jake’s soccer game. I wonder if the rain will hold off?

12:00 PM – To answer my previous question: No, the rain will not hold off. In fact, we called the game early. Jake needs a shower to warm up.
2:00 PM – To the library, quite possibly one of mankind’s greatest inventions ever!
3:00 PM – The kids are all settled with books or movies …read more