French toast

Happy Mother's Day.  Who wants to stand in line for a restaurant on the morning of Mother's Day?  It's much nicer to let Mom sleep in and treat her when she gets up.

For Mother's Day today, Bbq Jr. and I made Mrs. Dude some breakfast.  Homemade french toast made from homemade bread.  Homemade chokecherry syrup (thanks Mom!) and home-cured, home-smoked bacon.  Yum.

From the old version of The Joy of Cooking:

2 eggs
½ tsp salt
1 cup milk
½ tsp vanilla

Beat the eggs lightly.  Add salt, milk and vanilla.  Mix well.  Quickly dredge the slices of bread through the batter, and fry in butter over medium heat until nicely browned.  Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.  Serve (with real maple syrup, or homemade chokecherry syrup).

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Let the fun begin.

Beer cooler?  Check.

Remote meat thermometer?  Check.

Happy fun-time manual?  Check.



Laissez les bons temps rouler.

Burgers

Back from out of country, but we're tired.  So what to grill on a lovely Sunday night?  Burgers:

1 ½ lb 15% fat ground beef
1 ½ tsp Northwood Seasoning

Penzey's Spices includes various spice mixes with their spice orders.  We often mix use them to make burgers.  In this case, Northwood Seasoning.  Mix together and form patties.



Toss on a screaming hot grill.



Sear.  (About 3 minutes).  Flip.



After a couple minutes, add some cheese.  We used a lovely blue, Blue Point Reyes.  Let it go a couple minutes, to finish off the burger and soften the cheese, yum.



Then, slide the burger off the direct heat.  Toast buns.



Assemble a burger with the usual toppings.  Lettuce.  Tomato.  Mustard.  Mayo.  Home-made bacon?  Sure, if you've got it.



Serve hot.  Makes 5 burgers.