Chocolate Hazelnut French Toast

I've never been a big breakfast person, usually I skip it (yea, I know! Bad) or have something quick. I don't especially like sweet things for breakfast either so you can probably guess that French toast is not my favorite thing.  I do love cooking breakfast for others though, and french toast is one of my husbands favorites. 

Ever since Thanksgiving I've been on the lookout for a good loaf of brioche bread, you can special order if from Whole Foods bakery, but really, I'll never plan that far in advance. I saw these rolls and decided they would have to do for now.  After dinner, there were still 4 leftover and the though of having them again, wasn't really appealing to me so I decided to get creative. The french toast recipe can be used with any bread or topping you want, this is what we had.

Chocolate Hazelnut French Toast

Ingredients:
2/3 cup skim milk
2 large eggs
2 tbl agave nectar or honey
salt
2 Brioche Rolls, cut in half

Butter
Chocolate hazelnut spread (I used Justin's Chocolate Hazelnut Butter, check them out! I use their Honey Almond butter on my oats in the morning)

Process:
Mix together milk, eggs, agave nectar and add a small pinch of salt. (I like to make this the night before, somehow I feel like it comes out way better when I do this)
When ready to cook, dip the bread into the mixture & soak for about 30 seconds on each side then let sit (on a plate or cooling rack) for minute or two to absorb the mixture completely.

Heat a saute pan over medium low heat and melt about a tablespoon of butter. Put two pieces of bread in the pan at a time & cook 3 min on each side (needed a bit longer since it was thick bread).

Serve with Chocolate Hazelnut spread, I sliced mine in half again and spread the nut butter in there. It got all nice and melty.

I think if this keeps up, I might become a breakfast convert!

Warm, gooey delicious breakfast :) (Honey Almond Oats)

It's snowing... Alot! I woke up nice and early to call and see if work was closed. Yay! Snow day!! Unfortunately husband works for a company that doesn't happened to believe in snow days, so I got up and made him a yummy hot breakfast and sandwich for lunch, then crawled back into bed :) Which I expected to be the end of my morning. About an hour later, my phone rang.. "ok I'm stuck, can you come out and help me?" oh yay! Hah so out of bed, and into my boots I went. He had already shoveled out the driveway but was getting stuck getting out into the street. About 30 minutes, one neighbor and two cops later we finally got the car free. I promptly went inside and made myself a nice warm bowl of oats!

Honey Almond Oats

1 cup water
1/3 cup Scottish oats
Splash of milk
1 egg white
2 tbl almond butter
Almonds
Crasins
Honey
Cinnamon

Boil water in a small sauce pan, whisk in oats. Cook for 2 minutes, add milk. Cook another minute and whisk in egg white. Cook another minute or two and turn off the heat. Add tbl of honey and sprinkle of cinnamon. Put the oats in a bowl, top with almonds, almond butter and Crasins. Enjoy!

This was definitely the highlight of my morning!!