A Beachy Breakfast

Breakfast.  I love breakfast.  I don’t just say “I love breakfast” like any other person.  I mean I LOVE it.  Breakfast was a special time in my family.  We had our standards (bacon, eggs, toast, you know), but we also had some crazy awesome things.  It was a time of experimentation.  Basically, any time a new breakfast anything showed up in the grocery, it seemed we tried it.  Orange sweet rolls, cherry turnovers, peach turnovers, homemade poptarts, well…you get the picture.

BUT, we had one breakfast item we were famous—or infamous depending on your diet—for, and that was chocolate gravy.  Wait, wait, wait!  Before you get all grossed out and think of all the nasty things it could be, let me explain.  As I have said before, my family is like one giant sweet tooth.  And this gravy is case and point of this.  ”Ok, ok.  What IS chocolate gravy,” you may ask.  I am SO glad you asked.  Chocolate gravy is just this…chocolate icing that we call gravy.  Yes.  You read that right.  What do we put it on?  Well, usually my dad’s homemade biscuits, but there is also the occasional waffle, piece of bacon, and (if you’re my brother) eggs.  Have you noticed a theme?  Our breakfasts were always more sweet than savory. :)

Anyways.  Casey and I are at the beach for a long weekend (Friday-Monday, hallelujah no work!), and have been eating lighter because...well...you GOTTA look good at the beach.  :) totally kidding. Because I have had fries with dinner every night since we got here.  Anyways.  I woke up this morning and skipped out on my run for the day--17 mph winds, chilly temperatures, and slight vertigo?  Yeah, even I am not crazy enough to risk that.  So, I relaxed...listened to the waves...did some pondering, and THEN...I had to eat.  


Seeing that we are staying at the condo of some friends of ours, we had plenty of supplies to cook with.  Needless to say, we have a happy camper in me.  And since I am trying to be better about being vegan--despite my undying love for grilled cheeses--I decided to make French Toast--without the good stuff (eggs, milk, butter).  So, I used the whole wheat mountain bread we bought at publix and began toasting it in the skillet.  Once both pieces were toasted on one side, I slathered them with peanut butter, topped with sliced bananas, and drizzled a little honey.  Then I put them together like a sandwich and cooked it on both sides to toast the remaining bit.  Then, plate it, drizzle MORE honey, and enjoy!

Skillet Peanut Butter Banana Toast (or Elvis Toast, if you like that name)

2-4 slices (depending on if one or two are eating) of bread
Peanut Butter (Jif Creamy works best)
Honey
Bananas
Butter (if you want to use that pre-skillet toasting for more crisp--and aren't vegan)

Heat a skillet on medium heat.  Trust me on this.  I get impatient and try to set it on 7 or 8, but then the bread burns.  And nobody wants that.  Put the bread down and toast until golden-ish.  Plate.  Layer peanut butter, honey, then bananas on the toasted side of one slice, and peanut butter on the other toasted slice's side.  Put together like a sandwich.  Cook on one untoasted side until golden brown, flip, and toast the other side.  Plate, slice in half, and pour as much honey on top as you want (for me, its a LOT).  Then enjoy.