Aug 19 2008
Breakfast chez mes Parents
When staying over at my parents, I might as well say thank you with an awesome breakfast, right?
- Orange French Toast
Last weekend saw D and I head to Dunbar to give two school friends a good send off as they move to the New York for two years. HarveyNick came down with us too, to help out with the dancing-men being always in short supply at ceilidhs- and so it seemed right that I used the opportunity to make a proper breakfast for us all.
I had to start by drying out my mum’s fabulously fresh bread a bit first. Eggy bread really calls for stale loaf but gosh darn we only had fresh. So I sliced the bread up first and laid it out in the sunshine for a bit.
The bread is soused in the standard eggy mixture, but with the luxurious addition of some full cream milk, cinnamon and orange zest. Thereafter it is cooked as normal, but then served drenched in a potent orange syrup of freshly squeezed orange juice and one’s Mother’s finest marmalade.
In the absence of one’s Mother’s finest, we think Golden Shred would be the best bet (Nigella recommends Tiptree but we all think that’s dull!).
Serve with lashings of tea, preferably in a fabulous tea cosy that matches the dish. Enjoy!
OM NOM NOM
looks as scrummy as it tasted. I enjoyed polishing off the sauce too. Some of it over pink grapefruit
Actually, she didn’t polish off the sauce… a couple of days later we poured the last few spoonfuls over a tweaked Nigella (poor thing). I made the instant Chocolate mousse, but as Dunbar was not able to come up with marshmallows mini or otherwise, I substituted 3 Milky Ways… I think it was otherwise essentially as per recipe.
Whatever, it was bleedin’ wunnerful, even though one had to ignore the 7000 calories per portion.
Thinking about it, I put in half the quantity of dark chocolate, as it felt like piggery to make a pud with a WHOLE bar of 85% choc plus 3 Milky Ways, plus a carton of cream, and some butter…. I’m sure you can see my point.
It was still bleedin’ wunnerful
That sounds wonderfully decadent. When will the planets align again such that I get something that luxurious for pud?
I don’t think, when we made the choccy mousse, that we were able to come up with mini marshmallows either. But what’s the difference once melted! Interesting that Dunbar could not provide though; we had real trouble tracking them down in Edinburgh (sainsbury’s eventually prevailed although they are rather less mini than the ones you get in coffee shops) and I remember a regular refrain of mine being “but you can get them in Dunbar” because I can remember there being huge bags of them in the co op…years ago.