Recipes!

I love bread.

I love it so much . . .  that I take pictures of it.

I've been having so much fun with our beautiful new bounty of bread!!!
I've made some crazy good sandwiches...
 {Turkey and Bacon Club on Sun-dried Tomato Bread}
{Egg and Cheese on Asiago Bagel}

Great French Toast...
 {Cooks Illustrated French Toast using Cinnamon Raisin Bread}

Bread Salad, Soup in Bread Bowls, Croutons, Bagel Chips....

BUT maybe I've missed the easiest idea -
there are recipes right on the Panera website.
How yummy ! ! !

http://www.panerabread.com/recipes/

Artisian Bread to French Toast with Blueberry Syrup.

For this recipe I used PCC's Volkorn Bread. It's a lovely braided loaf, very hearty and filled with seeds and other goodies. It made great croutons, good crumbs for meatloaf and think it would make awesome grilled sandwiches. I'll test that out next time we get a loaf...

French Toast Recipe from America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook

8 slices bread (I actually used almost the whole loaf, sliced 1/2 inch or so...)

whisk together
2 Tablespoons melted butter
1 cup milk
1 large egg
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

slowly whisk in
1/2 cup flour

Melt about 1 Tablespoon of butter in a skillet,

cook in melted butter over medium heat until golden brown.

(Well... mine turned out too dark, but nobody complained!)

Cheater's Blueberry Syrup

Heat 1/2 cup maple syrup to a boil, add handful of frozen berries.

Boil for a minute, or until berries start to soften and burst. Blend. Or leave it with whole berries.

Drench your amazing french toast with more butter and blueberry syrup.

Or just syrup.

Either way - Yum.

Leftovers. Use it up.

Once we get our rescued goods from the shed, it seems like a crime to let them go to waste. I love creative ways to use leftovers or surplus. Usually it's soup.
This week I've made strawberry vanilla bean jam, strawberry rhubarb pie and rosemary rhubarb jelly. YUM-town.
I also saw an inspiring post with some great leftover ideas on the Tasty Kitchen Blog. Check out this link to tasty kitchen leftovers ideas.