French Toast with Leftover French Bread

We used french bread to go along with our delicious cauliflower soup on Monday, but this was an easy way to get rid of the remaning bread.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup milk
1 T sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
pinch of salt

Directions:
I heated on medium, about 2 T of butter.  I soaked each piece of thinly sliced french bread for about 30 seconds on each side, and then cooked it until brown on each side.  Sifted some powder sugar over it (with my tea bag holder haha.. you gotta make due with what you have!), enveloped it in syrup, and served it to my boys.  It would have been nice to have fruit garnishes, alas we didn't.

Cauliflower Soup

I really wanted some cauliflower soup today, to my disdain, cauliflower was quite expensive!  But after tasting this soup, it was well worth it!

Ingredients:
3/4 head of cauliflower broken into little florets
1 carrot - peeled and shredded
1/2 small onion - diced
1 chicken bouillon
2 cups water

3 T flour
3 T butter
1 t pepper
1 t salt
2 cups milk
1 cup white cheddar
1 T corn starch


Directions:
Combine cauliflower, carrot, onion, water, and chicken bouillon in a pot until boiling.  Then simmer for 15 minutes.  The last 5 minutes of the simmer, in a small pot on medium, combine flour, butter, pepper and salt, and mix well.  Once melted together, slowly add in milk, then cheese, then add to the vegetable mix on low or medium, add the corn starch, continue to mix, then taste... add salt and pepper as needed.  Tastes great with french bread or garlic bread or saltine crackers.  Enjoy!