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| Bright sunny day out :) |
Are you ready for the weekend? I know I am since erm, Wednesday! Brunch is my favourite meal of the week, maybe because it comes by far and only few in between :) I grew up eating French toast on weekends, the smell of fried eggs mingled with butter is all familiar on a Saturday morning. It sets the beginning of a glorious day to do as I wish as it rolls pass warm and lazy for the next 48 hours.
I've since found ways to improve my mum's traditional French toast to a French toad-in-a-hole! Well, it's really more like French toast and
egg in a basket but I just wanted to stay true to the namesake of the recipe I adapted from. So here is to a deliciously easy brunch all the same :)
Ingredients
- 4 thickly sliced bread
- 5 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tbs Parmesan cheese, finely grated
- A knob of butter
- A stalk of fresh parsley, minced for garnishing
- Freshly ground black pepper
Adapted from Amateur Gourmet
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| Prep work in my tiny kitchen |
Directions
- Cut a hole in all bread slices. I used a cookie cutter for a perfect round hole but it's really not necessary!
- In a wide shallow dish, whisk in 1 egg with milk, Parmesan cheese and few cranks of black pepper
- Soak each slice of bread in the egg mixture until well coated on all sides
- Set a non-stick pan on medium heat with a knob of butter
- Once the butter is foamy, lay each piece in the pan for 1 minute
- Break an egg into each of the bread and let it sit until the bottom of the bread is slightly browned. Take a little peek by lifting the corner of the bread without spilling the egg in the hole
- Once the eggs are a little firm, flip it over to brown the other side
- Depends on how you prefer the egg: runny egg, 1-2 minutes while an almost hard yolk takes a good 3+ minutes
- Garnish with minced parsley and have a happy weekend!
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| Someone likes it runny but not too runny (!) |
