I have this fantasy.  I’m a chic modern version of June Clever & I’m wearing an apron over a cute outfit that is accented with a pair of sexy heels & a black pearl necklace.  (Stop laughing, I can hear you!  The key word is “fantasy”.)  So, I’m in the kitchen cooking a huge breakfast over one of those stainless steal gas stoves – you know, the kind professional chefs use – for my family or any friends who have happened to drop by for the morning.  Of course I’m not slaving away all by myself because my hot, fabulous husband who knows I’m the best wife ever is working right along beside me to make this meal happen.  There’s only one problem with this fantasy. I don’t know how to make breakfast.  Yes, that’s right, I’ve never cooked a full traditional breakfast.  I’ve prepared at least a dozen dinner parties for a dozen people, but never one complete homemade breakfast for even one person.

I decided to solve this problem by inviting one of my favorite people over for a breakfast cooking experiment last week.  I was really excited about it!  Learn how to do something new while doing something nice to show my friend my appreciation for our friendship.  Seemed like a great deal to me.  Hmmm…..what to make?  French toast, turkey bacon, scrambled eggs, strawberries & juice.  It seemed pretty straight forward & easy.  That is until I went to actually prepare breakfast.  Then I realized I was missing a skillet.  What to do now?  I decided the best way around this technical difficulty was to cook the items in stages.  So I pulled out my one frying pan & started to fry up the turkey bacon.  Now I’d never made turkey bacon before & the last time I fried pork bacon was about 10 years back.  I got a little nervous when I discovered  it wasn’t crisping like I imagined it should.  My solution this time was to text my best friend (who happens to be a fantastic cook) & she told me to make sure I cooked it well enough to avoid giving my friend salmonella.  Salmonella???  Good grief, poisoning him was NOT what I had in mind.  I spent the next 20 minutes of my life making sure that bacon was well fried!

By the time my breakfast company arrived, the bacon was done & I was ready to tackle the eggs & French toast.  As you might remember I only own one frying pan & both items needed to be served piping hot.  Time to get creative & make do with what I had.  After beating up 4 eggs with butter, salt, pepper & a dash of Italian seasonings I dumped the mixture into the non-stick bottom pot from my double boiler.  It was around this time my guest politely asked if I knew what I was doing.  Nope, I sure didn’t know what I was doing, but I had ideas!

It had been about 3 years since I’d last made French toast.  That time I had burned it pretty badly because of all the cinnamon I’d dumped into the batter.  Lesson learned.  This time when I prepared it I left the cinnamon out & just mixed 4 eggs, vanilla almond milk, vanilla extract & a drop of coconut extract.  However, it’s practically a sin to not have cinnamon with one’s French toast so I got creative again.  I sifted a mixture of powdered sugar & cinnamon over each piece of toast once it had been toasted to crispy, buttery perfection using Olivio.  (Olivio is a butter spread made with sweet cream, canola oil, olive oil & flaxseed oil & in my humble opinion the combination of oils brings out the flavor of foods in a nice smooth way.  Plus it’s suppose to be healthier than straight up butter.)

Success!!!  My cooking was loved  🙂 The only thing left was one strawberry…..and then that was history too.

I also learned two very important things.  One, I NEED a skillet asap.  Two, if I hadn’t tried out my breakfast fantasy on one person, I wouldn’t know I needed a skillet & therefore my future self would be very unprepared when I tried to cook breakfast for my future family without one.  Whew, future crisis averted!