Tasty Tuesday: French Toast Bliss

I recently discovered the blog Cooking with a Wallflower & I love her recipes! They’re my favorite kind: light on effort & heavy on flavor.

Last weekend she posted a recipe for Baked Maple Almond French Toast. The pictures alone were convincing enough, but the recipe looked relatively simple.

I’ve always steered clear of attempting french toast because of the messy-egg-dipping-fear-of-spreading-salmonella issues I have–this recipe was the perfect solution to combating my fear.

You may have seen the delicious french toast I’m addicted to at drip on last week’s Mother’s Day recap so I was hoping to create an alternative that would allow me to stay indoors in my pajamas. Success!

The Hubs spent the weekend visiting his grandfather in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Ellijay, GA). After a few early mornings of fishing, I knew he’d want to sleep in on Sunday, so I thought it’d be the perfect opportunity to try out this recipe! {This paragraph makes me sound like I’m the best wife in the world. On that note, I want everyone to refer back to this in future posts 😉 }

Jeremy is the spitting image of his PawPaw and I’m pretty sure he represents exactly how my husband will act at age 78–I don’t hate it if that’s what my future holds. 🙂

PawPaw took up beekeeping a few years ago and when the season’s right, he’ll send home some honey with Jeremy. When the Hubs got home last night, he proudly presented my very favorite of gifts!

Saturday I ventured down to the Soda City Market to visit my favorite vintage pop-up shops (& sweetest gals I know) — Emily of Butterfly Vintage & Lindsey of Saint & Rambler.

On another note, when you visit Soda City – be sure to look for Indigo Chocolate. Any time I see Katherine (or her lovely daughter!) at Soda City or the Irmo Farmer’s Market, I beeline for her table to stock up on chocolate. Y’all–she makes her own chocolate from scratch! It’s heavenly. I couldn’t resist getting some of her Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies.

While at the market, I picked up a loaf of challah bread (per the baker’s recommendation that this would be best for french toast) from Heather’s Artisan Bakery. If you haven’t tried her bread, you must. I’m a big fan of carb-o-loading at all times – because you never know when you’re going to need to run a marathon.

I’ll spare you the details of the recipe (because you can find that over on Cooking with a Wallflower’s post!), but I tell ya: this is going to be a weekend staple! So easy AND delicious!

I hope you all had a great weekend too! 🙂