I just had to share my Bank Holiday Brunch. French toast aka brioche egg bread. Just so simple and so delicious. Nice to eat the first meal of the day, one, with company and two not stressed at a computer 💻 🖥️ after a long commute. Seems such a luxury…

I wish I was better at making my mornings [before work] nicer. It seems I can only do this for short periods of time. What’s crazy is that I only have myself to ‘blame’. Time and time again I have to wonder why, despite the fact I only have to look after myself in the mornings, I can’t even manage to do this, to the standard that would make me feel a little bit more of a successful grown up, rather than a failed adult!

I’d like to be able to provide as much care to myself, my physical and emotional well-being, as I do with making these fried egg and bread wonders.

This morning it was all very slow and sedate. Cracking the eggs, one by one into one of our big soup dishes. I use 4, for the 2 of us. Then a little bit of salt. This time I added cinnamon. However when eating with Ignacio, he told me that I should have sprinkled the cinnamon on at the end 🤦🏾‍♀️. I guess that’s one way of doing it. Then my favourite bit, putting the cut up brioche pieces into the egg mixture and watching it all soak up. I love seeing the transformation from dryness to soggy pieces of goodness bursting with eggy potential. That potential is realised when I put the first pieces in the pan of shallow oil that had been gently warming in the background. I’m a bit better a standing over the cooker and flipping over the little golden rectangles until they are crisp and brown on the outside but still juicy and soft on the inside. They are perfect 👌🏾. They might still go well with any berries 🫐 🍓 if I had any in the house but more often I don’t! I’ve been making these more often and I’ve found they are just perfect on their own. I don’t even need to add any kind of syrup anymore.

Well it will be September by the end of the week. We head into the last part of the year [2023], it’s likely to be busy and intense and I’ll have to find ways to keep a steady head! 🤞🏾