Apple Stuffed French Toast

Is it breakfast or brunch or is it dessert?  You decide now that it’s yours.  You make it any way you want it, any way you prefer it to be.  That is one of the neat things about cooking and baking for yourself, not only for those around you, but yes, for you–

 Why not be a bit self-centered now and then– kidding,

or not…

Be a tad indulgent, just not too much and not too often or the waistline will make up for that indulgence, and not in a pretty way.  Just a little here, a little there; a little this, a little that… and some more of that…

 now, I’m kidding.

  No, really… not?–

French Toast began basically having your bread sweetened for breakfast.  But it was not created in France, does not/did not orginate there.  Would you think that someone just thought they’d spiffy things up a bit, give a flair to plain old bread and succumb to toasting it in a frying pan, pouring syrup or sweet sauce over it and just call it French because that’s “fancy?”  French is fancy, and I cannot argue with that.  We’re always trying to spiffy things up a tad bit, aren’t we?  Even if we’re “country bumpkins” we’re still going to do it– spiffy things up here or there, now and then.  We don’t like monotony, so we change things around.  We like variety, but be careful where you like variety.  In food, yes; in marriage, no.  Succumb to temptation by only toasting bread in skillet!  Give more attention to spouse, and you will not have to succumb to anything but being happily married… lol!  Funny how that is– receiving what you give…  I better shut up.  Easily offending, I may tend to be… (sigh)

I am married to one kind of pizza because I like this one special kind of brand of pizza, and it’s homemade of which I never actually tire of, this one particular flavor of pizza.  It’s always the same which might be boring to some who do not like this kind of pizza that I always crave and even get sick of on occasion when pizza leaves trails of crumbs on floors that other wives might call– “dirty socks.”  But with my pizza, it is understandably correct in saying that “dirty socks,” “crumbs,” pizza crumbs, must be acceptable when dining  over pizza.  

Alright, so pizza is love-making; it is sex with one person, romance, hugging, all that… what the French like to flaunt.  Ouch.  Americans enjoy talking about it, showing it off in their own flaunting ways whether it be proper or improperly displayed.  It is “sacred” enjoyment between my pizza and me.  Yes, his name is Mr. Pizza, my husband, that is; you have my permission to call him that.  Double ouch. 

 Food is like that.  It can be what you love, and the way you enjoy just what you want and love to have with who you love– your own pizza. 

Back to French Toast, the subject at hand:

French toast is “Eggy Bread” and even– “Gypsy Bread” in the UK.  I wonder if Patty in the UK ever makes Eggy Bread for her family there, after hearing it expressed in that way, often now, or does her family still refer to it just as American as– French Toast?  To be or not to be, let toast live!  Why not just call it “Fried Bread” and get it over with? 

In Portugal and Brazil, it is called, “Rabanada,” a dessert at Christmas.  In Spain, it is a dessert at Easter, known as,  “Torrijas.”

It is also said and true that French Toast dates back to medieval times in Spain, from the 15th century.  Do you really think they called it French Toast there??  If hands of time could turn back clocks, that they could sample how we eat and have our French Toast, now, it would be a luxury for them.  They would, plainly, most likely call it dessert.  Can you picture it, imagine it– the grunting around a long guarded table, the tearing and ripping of meat through teeth in bodies of suits of armour, basinets clanking to the stone floor, swords slashing from out of nowhere, and then something so delicate as our French Toast but of what would be called “Pain Perdu”–lost bread, because that is what it was called in the day of Henry V.

 Stale bread IS lost bread, now that you think about it.  And it is referred to this title in these places as it was for King Henry V:  France, Belgium, New Orleans, Acadiana, Newfoundland and the Congo. 

Both kinds of apples in this recipe make it a nice blend, having the tart with the sweet. 

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plain French toast