I’ve never been much of a cook or baker, but one thing I could always make is French toast. However, I recently learned how to bake my own bread. One Sunday my wife was not feeling well and she went to take a nap. That left me to provide dinner for the whole family. My go-to meal is usually cereal or French toast, but a quick inventory of the kitchen showed me there wasn’t enough milk for the cereal and no bread. That’s when I decided to try my newfound baking skills and make bread from scratch. After all, I thought homemade bread would probably make French toast even better.

I made the homemade bread from start to finish in about an hour using a simple recipe with high potency instant yeast and lecithin. These two ingredients mix together and make bread very easy and very fast. The lecithin makes the dough very soft and gave my bread a professional look.

One thing about making breakfast from scratch is that the whole kitchen smells like delicious, freshly baked bread before you even start on the toast. The downside to this is that your kids may think dinner is ready before you start the toast. My kids came running into the kitchen ready to eat at this point.

Once the bread was baked and the kitchen was filled with the wonderful aroma of homemade bread, I started on the French toast. I created my special bread dipping concoction by mixing together 6 eggs, 1/2 cup of cream or milk, a little vanilla, and my special ingredient, a drop or two of almond extract. My kids love the smell of the almond extract mixed with the vanilla. I think I had them ready to eat at this point.

I sliced ​​up one of the loaves and put my electric griddle on medium (I always turn the oven or griddle on later than I should in the process), and sprayed it with cooking spray. Then I dipped the bread slices into the egg mixture and put them on the griddle. I then sprinkled cinnamon on each side as I flipped them over. (I like them to be slightly browned on each side when I flip them over)

Once I was done cooking, I woke my wife up and said, “Do you want to come over for some made-from-scratch French toast?”

We devoured the French toast and I was the hero of the house.