French Toast Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 4 minutes
Cooking time: 6 minutes
Makes 4 slices of French toast
Ingredients Needed
- 200g/7ozs vanilla ice cream or gelato
- 4 slices of white sourdough bread
- 30g/1oz butter
- 20ml/0.7flozs oil
- Maple syrup and berries to serve
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Melt the ice cream or gelato in a wide bowl. Dunk each slice briefly in the melted ice cream or gelato and set aside on a single layer on a tray.
Step 2 - Heat a large frying pan on medium heat. Add the butter and oil and melt the butter. Place each slice of bread on the frying pan and fry for 2-3 minutes or until caramelised. Turn over and fry for 1-2 minutes until caramelised on the other side. Place on a plate and serve with maple syrup and berries.
Personal Note
Dear Reader, I hope you've had a lovely weekend so far! I always make something like French toast on weekends because there's never enough will or time to do it on weekdays (sleep is priority!).
Last weekend we went to see a movie. We never go to the movies nowadays. I think it's a leftover from COVID but Mr NQN hates the idea of sitting in a theatre with other people. He figures that you can pretty much rent anything and watch it from the comfort of your home anyway. But then I saw something on tiktok that made me book movie tickets straight away.
I'm a massive fan of Formula 1 ever since I started watching Drive To Survive when it came out a few years ago. I love the relationships and drama between teams and within teams and the doco series really highlights it. And there's now an F1 movie out. I saw a recommendation on Tiktok to watch it on a 4DX screen. That's where the chairs move, you get sprayed with water and there may be smoke too. So before Mr NQN could even agree to it, I was buying us tickets to see it in 4DX.
While I absolutely loved it I will say that a part of me is so used to watching things at home that it took me a while to get used to seeing something in a theatre this way. For starters, the chairs really throw you about and I soon regretted wearing a leather skirt as things became slippery with leather against velour and water. Every time a race scene came on I gripped the chair arms. And then I wondered if the water that they were spraying at us was clean. "Do you think they clean the water pipes?" I whispered to Mr NQN. Being a germaphobe is hard y'all!
So tell me Dear Reader, how often do you go to the movies? Have you ever tried French toast made with ice cream? And do you ever make breakfasts like this on weekdays?