Nothing better than french toast, bacon and orange juice for breakfast.  And a cup of hot coffee.  Yummy.  I have had french toast in a lot of different restaurants and I swear, mine is the very best.

For me, french toast tastes best with white bread.  When I was in Las Vegas, the bread was yellow and it was Texas Toast bread (you know the real thick bread).  We ate it at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in the 1980s but I still remember how good it tasted.

First, I plug in my electric griddle to 350 degrees.  I find if the griddle is hot, it speeds up the whole cooking process.  Also, I like mine a little crispy.

To make my egg mixture for 8 slices of bread:  six small eggs or 5 medium eggs or 4 large eggs.  I add very little milk …probably 1/4 to 1/2 cup and beat it up until smooth.   I use fresh farm eggs so my mixture looks almost orange.

Then I take a stick of margarine and peel some of the paper down so the margarine is exposed. I keep my fingers clean by holding on to the bottom.  I rub the margarine onto the griddle but only on enough room for two slices.  I dip two slices of bread into the egg mixture and lie it down on the buttered griddle.  The more butter, the better.  Then I butter two more spaces and add them and so on until all eight slices are on the buttered griddle.

Then sprinkle cinnamon on the top of the toast.  Not cinnamon sugar.  The syrup makes the toast sweet.

Once the buttered side of the toast is browned, lift it up, butter the area below it and flip the toast over.  Like I said, the more butter, the better.  The toast should be browned on both sides.  Gooey french toast taste awful to me.

Make sure you put the syrup into the microwave to heat it up…one minute is good.  I actually use my glass measuring cup to heat the syrup in because if I don’t use all the syrup, it makes it easier to pour the syrup back into the bottle.  You shouldn’t need more than half a cup of syrup for the eight slices.  I am sure we use less than that.

Cute story.  My husband overheard a lady at work talking about eating pancakes at a restaurant and how they even heated her syrup.  My husband said my wife always heats my syrup.  I think it made him feel good to know I always go the extra mile to make our meals special.