Friday was a good day. Not only did midterm break start, I headed to AIT's Student Union and discovered a basket full of free food sitting on a table, free for any student to pick from it. It turns out Tesco partner with a scheme called FoodCloud where they donate all their short dated/out of date food to those in need, which is such a fantastic idea. In this day and age there's so much food wastage when it could go to the homeless or schemes like this. I picked up a loaf of tiger bread and 2 packets of sprouted seeds from the basket and gleefully brought them home.
The tiger bread was slightly stale on the outside but perfect on the inside, so I thought what better to use it for than some French toast? I had originally planned to make a healthy lunch but French toast always wins.
Without further adieu - and because I hate those recipe posts that spend 14 paragraphs talking about their neighbour's cousin's gerbil's flu due to the snow storm that's been happening recently (I made that up) - here's the recipe. So easy and perfect for brunch!
Ingredients
Plain flour
Milk of your choice (dairy free or normal milk)
Drop of vanilla essence
Sprinkle of cinnamon
Unflavoured oil for frying
Tiger bread or thick loaf
Method
1. Cut the bread into fairly thick (1 or 2 inches, oo-er) slices.
2. Preheat a frying pan with some oil - I used coconut as it provides a nice flavour.
3. Make your batter. To be honest I don't like measuring stuff so I just added about 100ml of milk to a bowl and added flour until it was like a thin pancake batter. I think I added about 4 tbsp of flour. I then added the cinnamon and vanilla and gave it a good whisk until smooth.
4. Coat your bread evenly in the batter and add to the hot pan.
5. Cook until golden brown on both sides. Serve with whatever takes your fancy!
Here's mine, topped with an Alpro Dessert Moments hazelnut & chocolate pudding, crushed almonds, peanut butter and vegan dark chocolate spread. Yum!
I hope you enjoyed this recipe post and try it out for yourself. Let me know if you'd like to see more recipe posts!
Really yummy!!!
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