Weekend French Toast Recipes: From Easy To Exotic

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Stuffing bread with bananas and frying it seems like just about the nicest thing you can do to bread.

 

French toast, a simple, straightforward breakfast food everyone knows how to make: true or false? Who cares, we just picked out three top-notch offerings for your weekend brunch pleasure from most complicated to easiest. One of the many great things about French toast — really, any breakfast food that involves maple syrup — is that it's best friends with sausage patties. Can we offer you a recipe for turkey and veal breakfast sausage? Or perhaps just straight pork?

Start with our foolproof guide to making French toast, then try your hand at any of these variations. 

• Thai Iced Tea French Toast
• Sesame French Toast with Orange Marmalade
• Banana-Stuffed French Toast

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