tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post5069044595097804283..comments2024-03-29T03:55:10.902-07:00Comments on CHRONICALLY SICK, BUT STILL THINKING I THINK: A French Toast Story.Sebastien Millonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06384643621878633512noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-22439664378403795502009-03-11T21:51:00.000-07:002009-03-11T21:51:00.000-07:00hahhas..I like all of your stories!!!hahhas..I like all of your stories!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-26313972131903261912007-03-11T03:34:00.000-07:002007-03-11T03:34:00.000-07:00Thanks for the history lesson of French Toast! And...Thanks for the history lesson of French Toast! And I've been feeding my stale bread to the birds. <BR/>Has it really been 2 weeks since I read your blog? Damn.Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09875511247524731958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-35352590698775647912007-03-03T14:57:00.000-08:002007-03-03T14:57:00.000-08:00Sonja: It seems so, doesn't it!! I think it's a Eu...Sonja: It seems so, doesn't it!! I think it's a European thing, rather than just French...<BR/><BR/>Mrmanuel: Same here! <BR/><BR/>Les: Thank you so much, I appreciate the kind thoughts :)Sebastien Millonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06384643621878633512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-70894079966881997692007-03-03T02:20:00.000-08:002007-03-03T02:20:00.000-08:00Hope everything works out for you.Hope everything works out for you.Les Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03262270371013174910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-86694492988362171552007-03-02T15:30:00.000-08:002007-03-02T15:30:00.000-08:00Hmm..very interesting. If that is poor food, take...Hmm..very interesting. If that is poor food, take away my money!MrManuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003292550689890179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-73155933958334389112007-03-01T21:52:00.000-08:002007-03-01T21:52:00.000-08:00Wow that's interesting - my parents are German too...Wow that's interesting - my parents are German too and I've been eating French toast since I was a little kid. Maybe they should call it "Deutsch Toast"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-7085294825396398022007-03-01T20:27:00.000-08:002007-03-01T20:27:00.000-08:00Fringes: Oh, I do hope so! I would love to partici...Fringes: Oh, I do hope so! I would love to participate!!!<BR/><BR/>Helen: You lucky ducky!!Sebastien Millonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06384643621878633512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-25296092346361596452007-03-01T15:48:00.000-08:002007-03-01T15:48:00.000-08:00Seb- we had it for breakfast this morning...Seb- we had it for breakfast this morning...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-22614248960104274282007-03-01T08:45:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:45:00.000-08:00Ah, man...surely you are guest posting during Frin...Ah, man...surely you are guest posting during Fringe Break 2007. Stories like this is what I'm looking for.<BR/><BR/>I love French toast. It's an easy meal when I don't feel like cooking. The kids love it morning, noon and night. My dad used to wake me up in the mornings and ask me to make it for him. Yum.fringeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10890618644042885035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-75932670082180464242007-03-01T08:29:00.000-08:002007-03-01T08:29:00.000-08:00Ak-man: Oh yes, french bread, much better than alm...Ak-man: Oh yes, french bread, much better than almond croissants. So, my way of making it, you need some bread, couple eggs, milk, a pan, and some powdered sugar (optional). Crack the 2-3 eggs into a bowl. Mix them, then add some milk, doesn't have to be a lot. In meanwhile, the pan should be heating on the stove, not the highest temperatures, lower-med temps, add some butter into the pan. Then take a piece of bread and put it in the bowl that has the eggs and milk, use a spatula to flip the bread around so both sides get soggy. Then take the bread and put it in the pan. Cook both sides till lightly browned. And then.... If you have some powdered sugar you can add that!!!! or whatever else you like. Hope it helps :)<BR/><BR/>Babybull: French bread plus chocolate! Oh yes, I must try that!<BR/><BR/>Anastasia: I too was surprised to learn french bread had 'working' class roots. I just thought it was weird that French people never ever talked about this food! FAscinating how it's all connected together, your eating that food during a hard time in your life...<BR/><BR/>Good for me: Hmmm, pommes frites has an interesting story I think, but I can't remember it, I should look it up. Oh, I will try that challah bread, sounds good!<BR/><BR/>Mariana: Never heard of acorda, that does sound interesting! Funny how each culture has variations on similar things in all spheres...<BR/><BR/>Tara: Eating french toast is always right. Morning lunch dinner snack, it works in every and all positions...<BR/><BR/>Helen: Oh, that's so interesting! I've never been to New Orleans, that's one place I really want to visit. I should've figured that if there would be a place in the US which made the classic french toast, it would be New Orleans! I think french toast is sooo good, it should be eaten by all! <BR/><BR/>Silver: French toast, it's the talk of the net. <BR/><BR/>Wat: That's been happening a lot lately right? Weird. Oh, waffles are nice, but it's weird, I've only eaten waffles a handful of times in my life.Sebastien Millonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06384643621878633512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-50694801719635591402007-03-01T03:43:00.000-08:002007-03-01T03:43:00.000-08:00Somebody has to tell me how to make Lost Bread . ....Somebody has to tell me how to make Lost Bread . . . just hearing u all talk about it is making me hungry!<BR/><BR/>: (Ak-Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03200520313856047882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-14221768611471803042007-02-28T15:12:00.000-08:002007-02-28T15:12:00.000-08:00How annoying! I wrote up this long cool comment o...How annoying! I wrote up this long cool comment only to have it vanish!<BR/><BR/>Well, the crux of it was: I love French Toast too, even without the maple syrup, following some eggs and sausage/bacon.<BR/><BR/>But my all time fav: WAFFLES!WAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265139894543519211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-77314920399995880042007-02-28T12:37:00.000-08:002007-02-28T12:37:00.000-08:00god, I love french toast and my friend mentioned i...god, I love french toast and my friend mentioned it today...and now you. I might just have to make some up....wonder if we've got any stale bread anywhere.Nikki Neurotichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699784181113365713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-48393135394235884962007-02-28T12:25:00.000-08:002007-02-28T12:25:00.000-08:00Well I have a totally different perspective. I gre...Well I have a totally different perspective. I grew up in probably the most French place in the US that you could grow up in: New Orleans. We've always called it lost bread. My children call it lost bread. We ate a lot of pain perdu and we weren't poor. (It's also called pain perdu in New Orleans.) When we moved the West Coast I found that not only was it different (they served it with syrup usually- like a pancake and it tasted different) but I had never even heard the term French Toast. We eat it with powdered sugar or I make a "syrup" with powdered sugar and milk. I've never really gotten used to the west coast version of French Toast so I never order it in a restaurant, I only make it at home. There are probably lots of "french" things from New Orleans and the US that you don't have in France- I never found a single beignet anywhere in Paris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-85342777219386159772007-02-28T09:00:00.000-08:002007-02-28T09:00:00.000-08:00Well now I'm hungry for French toast. And French f...Well now I'm hungry for French toast. And French fries, actually. But definitely the toast. I have bread and a frying pan, I just need some batter. And if eating French toast is wrong, I don't want to be right.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16103812856035857566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-12426573428423249342007-02-28T07:52:00.000-08:002007-02-28T07:52:00.000-08:00And you bought her measly excuse? For that you sho...And you bought her measly excuse? For that you should make her pay. In Portugal we also make something out of dry hardened bread, only it's called açorda. It's got clams (and the water they soaked in, not milk), shrimps, olive oil and coriander. Try it sometime, yummy!Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679839426291667211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-39752339239540156552007-02-28T06:51:00.001-08:002007-02-28T06:51:00.001-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008427246799771860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-5758620236911023942007-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:51:00.000-08:00what a great story, seb! i too leaned something ne...what a great story, seb! i too leaned something new. do pommes frites have a similar story? isn't it amazing have food can have such significance in our lives?<BR/><BR/>try this sometime. buy a loaf of challah bread. cut it very thick. make french toast and smother with butter, syrup, and powdered sugar. oh yeah, baby!Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008427246799771860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-5813611034507166192007-02-28T06:17:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:17:00.000-08:00That's something new I learned today, thank you (a...That's something new I learned today, thank you (and i'm not being sarcastic when I say that). I didn't have any idea that it was considered the lowest type of meal, or class based, but reading this post reminded me of so many years ago, when I first lost my father and my mother and I were on the move constantly, until we managed to find something affordable, and yes...what we'd eat (although I was too young, back then to know its name) was French Toast.<BR/><BR/>Wow.<BR/>It's uncanny how certain things, stories/words, can resurrect moments in the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-168361815090757232007-02-28T03:57:00.000-08:002007-02-28T03:57:00.000-08:00You can make French Toast with fresh bread.. It's ...You can make French Toast with fresh bread.. It's nice and fluffy and you can add cinnamon and fruit to it or Chocolate..it's mighty fine..It's more common now than it use to be..Mrs. Hairy Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953176969674262877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906869.post-43428030586090953002007-02-28T03:40:00.000-08:002007-02-28T03:40:00.000-08:00The 'Lost Bread' . . . I have never tasted this be...The 'Lost Bread' . . . I have never tasted this before but continually hear about it.<BR/><BR/>Being as I dont live in a gutter, can i make Lost Bread with fresh bread?<BR/><BR/>You must have tasted Almond Croissants though. . .i can imagine Lost Bread tasting better than that. Might not be a fair comparison though cos one is like a breakfast meal and the other is a pastry like desert.Ak-Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03200520313856047882noreply@blogger.com