This morning I made Francophile toast for breakfast. What's the big deal? Nothing except that I made it with bread I made myself with my new (well, new to me) breadmaker. The thing is great. Put in the ingredients (flour, salt, sugar, butter, yeast, and water), set the timer and in the morning you have perfectly baked fresh bread. I added about 1/4 cup of dried rosemary and it was really, really good.

I sliced it nice and thick, mixed up 2 eggs, about a 1/4 cup of half and half, freshly ground cinnamon and a splash of vanilla, soaked the bread until almost all the egg batter was absorbed in two slices, fried it up and scarfed it down with a little maple syrup from Vermont.

Fantastiqué!