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It seems that there are basically two things that I do for my kids on a regular basis: try to teach them something and try to cook something for them. Playing doesn't count; that's as much for me as them. The articles that I post here will probably fall under one of those two broad categories. From the title, you can guess that this falls under the cooking category. Let's get started.

What you will need:

1 cup of milk
3 large eggs
1 cap full of vanilla
2 tablespoons of honey
liberal amounts of cinnamon
butter
6-8 slices of bread

Start with the honey. Honey is a pain in the butt to work with at room temperature, so pour it into a coffee cup and stick it in the microwave for 20 seconds.  It is important to note the difference between 20 seconds (pressing the zero on the microwave once) and 2 minutes (pressing it three times).  Twenty seconds gives you runny honey. Two minutes gives you something else entirely.  Something bad.  Something that, when poured into cold milk, hisses then coagulates into a solid lump and makes you have to start over. So, twenty seconds for that. Pour the milk, eggs, vanilla and warm honey into a mixing bowl and whisk together.  Then coat the surface of the mixture with a dusting of cinnamon.

Once you have the ingredients sufficiently whisked, put a few pats of butter in your skillet over medium heat. Dredge a few pieces of bread at a time through the mixture letting them soak for several seconds at a time on each side.  How long to soak depends on your bread.  On the one hand, not enough soaking makes slightly flavored toast.  Too much makes a mess when the bread breaks apart when you transfer it to the pan.  This is a learn by doing moment.  Cook the slices thoroughly.  This is, essentially, raw egg we're dredging the bread in after all.  If you like, sprinkle more cinnamon on the mixture before you dredge another batch.

Remove cooked slices to a plate and serve.  I like to dust them with powdered sugar after pouring the syrup.  If you get adventurous (and don't have to worry about sugar or cholesterol) you can look up a recipe for bananas foster and make something similar to top your french toast with.  Big kids apparently like that.

Well that's it.  That's the first big cooking win I had over restaurant food.  But, my victory was short lived.  The very next time my kids came to stay with me I asked if they wanted me to fix French toast again, but toaster prepared, French toast 'sticks' were preferred.  Damn you Kellogg.

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