Foodbuzz Welcome & French Toast Sticks for the K-1 Class

Last night was opening night of the long awaited {for me} Foodbuzz Festival.  The Welcoming Reception was held at Fort Mason on the Marina Green in San Francisco.

Here's a tiny preview.......hundreds of mini cupcakes from Mini Cupcakes.  Apparently, Mini Cupcakes scored themselves a reality TV pilot for Food Network.  Hopefully it will make it to TV because Food Network was there filming the entire night.

More to come on the Foodbuzz Fest......stay tuned.

Yesterday was also volunteer cooking day at Bryce's school yesterday.  This is where I volunteer to teach cooking to the small 5 student K-1 class.  I have about an hour with the kids, so sometimes it's a challenge to come up with something that's easy, kid-friendly as far as taste goes and that can be completed from start to finish in an hour or so.

I chose French Toast Sticks, and boy did they ever have fun.  It's amazing what the combination of sugary syrup and five, 5 and 6 year olds makes.  Let's just say, it got progressively louder in that small   K-1 room as the hour went on, especially when the syrup was thrown into the mix!  But SO much fun.  Kids really enjoy cooking and I'm cherishing these little moments with them.

Here's how it all went down........

Ingredients you'll need, eggs, milk, french toast bread, cinnamon, butter, corn flakes, syrup and powdered sugar.

Mix the eggs and the milk with a whisk until it's light and fluffy.  Cut each slice of bread in three or four strips.

Give each child a Ziploc with some corn flakes in it and let them pound them to smithereens!  This was, by far their favorite part!

Dip the bread strips in the batter mixture and roll in the corn flakes.  Then in a heated skillet with butter, toast up all the strips.

Top with powdered sugar and / or dip in syrup. 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Enjoy!

French Toast Sticks

Ingredients:

• 4 slices bread
• 3 eggs
• ¼ cup milk
• 2 cups cornflakes cereal
• 1 T butter
• Syrup or powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Cut each slice of bread into 3 strips on a cutting board, using a serrated knife. Put bread strips in baking dish.

2. Crack the eggs into a bowl. Add the milk to the eggs. Beat with a fork until the eggs look foamy. Pour over bread in baking dish. Turn bread strips over, using tongs, to coat other side.

3. Put the cereal in a plastic bag. Seal bag closed. Use rolling pin to crush cereal. Dump crushed cereal into a shallow baking dish or pie plate.

4. Put butter in the skillet. Heat over medium heat until butter is melted.

5. Take the bread strips out of the egg mixture, using tongs, and put them on the crushed cereal. Turn over to coat other sides.

6. Put the bread strips into the hot skillet. Cook for about 4 minutes or until bottoms of bread strips are golden brown. Turn them over and cook other side for about 4 minutes as well.

7. Serve the “stix” with syrup for dipping or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Happy Saturday!

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The Best Brownies

As most of you know, I volunteer at Bryce's school a couple times a month to teach the K-1 class cooking.  I was thinking of doing something healthy this time.....maybe something with fruit, because Bryce loves fruit.  I asked Bryce what he thought of my idea and if he had any requests.

"Brownies!" he says.

So, brownies it was!  You don't have to ask me twice.


Can you believe, I have never made brownies from scratch before?!  So I went to my trusty Pioneer Woman's website and found this delicious recipe:
Pioneer Woman's Tasty Kitchen Best Basic Brownie recipe {full recipe at bottom of this page}

I will probably NEVER make brownies from a box again.  There, I said it.
These brownies were not only absolutely delicious but they were super simple too!

I am just amazed sometimes at how much better things are when you make them from scratch.  You can almost taste every ingredient in these brownies....the creamieness of the butter, the sugar, just enough salt and of course the cocoa.  Oh so good!

Here's how it all went down.........

Only three students out of the five for today.

Note to self: work on cracking eggs with the class.

This recipe is so easy.  After melting the butter, you just add all the ingredients in one bowl and mix by hand.....or hands.

Best Basic Brownie

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups white sugar
• 4 whole eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. baking powder


Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray non-stick spray on a 9 x 13 pan.
Melt butter. Remove from heat and add ingredients in the order listed, stirring well by hand.
Bake for 25-30 minutes. Do not overbake.
Cut with a plastic knife {best brownie trick}.


Happy Saturday!

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