Another Idea for Stale Bread

I wrote previously about making croutons, but this morning reminded me of another use for stale bread, French Toast.  The French call it Pain Perdu which means lost bread.

To make, crack a couple eggs into a bowl.  Mix with about a cup of milk and about 1/2 a teaspoon of cinnamon.  Dredge your stale bread slices through the mix and cook on a hot griddle.

I only had buttermilk in the house this morning, and it worked well with the French Toast.  Added a little tang to it.

Winter Planting

The hurricane and a couple personal issues forced me to put this project as well as most of the garden on hiatus for the fall.  The cherry tomatoes (actually grape tomatoes) did fantastic in the container.  Been harvesting batches for 6 weeks now.  The bone meal seemed to do the trick.  The cucumbers I planted a week or so later didn’t fare as well.  I got one nice big cucumber off two plants.  As I mentioned though the garden was greatly neglected this fall.

Since it was about 85 degrees out today, I was in the mood to try a winter planting.  In bed number one I planted a Mesclun mix.  The seed packet was pretty old, so I’m not expecting much.  I finished the other half of the bed with red leaf lettuce seeds.

In bed number two I planted half beets and and left the other half ready for kale which I’m starting indoors.

I was running quite low on compost so I added some peat moss left over from my failed blueberry experiment to get some more organic material in there.  I instantly regretted adding as much as I did as the bed turned that peaty orange color.  Oh well…