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Coconut French toast with roasted rhubarb + hazelnut and orange dukkah (gluten + dairy-free) + a giveaway!

Back when I worked the breakfast shift as a chef, one of the most popular dishes was French toast. For those of you like me who prefer sweet over savoury in the morning, it feels like a bit of a treat to eat something that so closely resembles a dessert! But while it’s a sweet choice, it doesn’t have to be sickly so. A simple mixture of eggs (fresh from our girls!) and milk is all that’s required really, add a touch of vanilla extract if you like (or some lemon zest or cinnamon for a change). Using old slightly dry bread is the key, just like when making bread and butter pudding, as the dry bread soaks up more of the egg mixture resulting in puffy, custardy bread once cooked.


As many of you will already know one of my favourite ways to cook both vegetables and fruit is roasting (um, everything) and if you’re one of those people who think you don’t like rhubarb (after being served overcooked stringy stalks as a kid… I forgive you mum!) you’re gonna love this roasted rhubarb. The sweet dukkah brings a bit of sass to the dish, with its lightly spiced crunchy combo. And should you find you have leftovers, its also delicious sprinkled on top of banana toast, pancakes or a bowl of yoghurt.


WIN A LE CREUSET SIGNATURE SKILLET!

—–COMPETITION NOW CLOSED—–

I’ve partnered with the lovely people at Le Creuset New Zealand to give you the chance to win a 26cm Le Creuset signature skillet pan of your own, just like the one seen in this post and in your choice of colour! Competition open to all New Zealand residents. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling me what you’d cook first in your new pan. The lucky winner will be chosen using random.org. Competition closes 5pm Saturday 30th September. Good luck!

Coconut French toast with roasted rhubarb + hazelnut and orange dukkah

I like to make the rhubarb ahead of time and find if done this way, then transferred to a glass bowl or container and set aside for a few hours, it forms it’s own lovely syrup. If you’d like things extra syrupy, drizzle with a little maple syrup as well. I’m not a huge fan of coconut yoghurt, but a little dollop would be a lovely dairy-free addition if desired.
Serves 4

Roasted rhubarb

500g rhubarb, trimmed

1/3 cup unrefined raw sugar

1 orange, wax-free or preferably organic

 

Hazelnut + orange dukkah

1/4 cup hazelnuts

2 tablespoons almonds

1/4 cup sesame seeds

2 tablespoons shredded coconut

1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds

1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom

Pinch fine sea salt

 

8 slices soft gluten-free bread (I used this)

2 large free-range eggs

125ml (1/2 cup) coconut milk (choose one without additives)

125ml (1/2 cup) almond milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Virgin coconut or olive oil, to cook

 

Preheat oven to 180C (350F). Slice rhubarb into 2cm lengths and place into a bowl, scatter with sugar. Finely grate the zest of the orange and set aside to use in the dukkah. Juice orange and stir through rhubarb. Transfer rhubarb to a lipped oven tray, along with all the juice/sugar remaining in the bowl. Roast 12-15 minutes or until tender but not too mushy. Remove and set aside to cool slightly.

Meanwhile, roast hazelnuts and almonds on an oven tray 8-10 minutes, shaking occasionally until lightly toasted. Rub skins off the hazelnuts and set aside to cool a little before placing into a small food processor.

Lightly toast sesame seeds, coconut, coriander and fennel seeds in a dry frying pan over medium-high heat until lightly toasted. Remove from the heat, cool for a few minutes before adding to the food processor along with all the ground spices and salt. Pulse until finely ground, then stir through reserved orange zest.

In a wide, flat bowl whisk eggs with coconut and almond milk and vanilla. Soak a few slices of bread at a time in the egg mixture. Allowing it to sit in the mixture for a minute or two to really soak it all up.

Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat, add a little oil, cook French toast for a few minutes either side until puffed and golden. Repeat with remaining bread/egg mixture. Serve hot, topped with a little rhubarb and a generous scattering of dukkah. Any leftover rhubarb will store in a container in the fridge for 4-5 days. Leftover dukkah will store airtight in the pantry for a few weeks, or in the fridge for longer.

 

 

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175 Responses

  1. I would love this! The first thing I’d cook would definitely be a fresh piece of fish for fish tacos, and enjoy the fact that half of it didn’t get left behind on our stupid old pan that I would happily chuck in the rubbish!

  2. Yum! Can’t wait to make this French toast. I’d make your baked butter beans with feta if I won the skillet – a household fave since Rach Barr cooked it for us years ago.

  3. My husband makes the family crepes for breakfast every Saturday (while I get a sleep in!). It is a special family time and our two young daughters love the ritual. This pan would be perfect and I know Finn would love to break it in with buttery crepes.
    Also this French toast recipe looks so good I think I’ll make it on Sunday!

  4. Oh my goodness! This is the competion for me! I’ve been trying to work out the safest way to rob a bank to get one of these skillets! 😂
    I make these delicious little pan cakes (because they aren’t like normal pancakes, but little cakes cooked in a pan) with berries, coconut flour, ground linseed, pumpkin seed, nuts, cornflour, chia seeds and a mashed banana. Add some tradeaid choc chips if I need a cocoa hit, but otherwise these naturally sweet treats are wonderful cold, and have everything you need for breakfast, without any worry that you aren’t feeding your body the right stuff!
    But I haven’t been making them lately because our frying pan is so gross (and toxic!) that I’m avoiding it at all costs. So I miss these little babies.
    I neeeeeeed this Emma!
    Now off I go to bake black bean brownies. How conveniant that my friend sent me this comp link right when I was making my way to your blog.

    1. I would love this skillet to make some delicious vegan buckwheat banana pancakes topped with vanilla strawberries and roasted macadamia nut butter 😋

  5. This looks amazing! The first thing I would make has to be a caramelised onion and kale frittata – such a staple in our house.

  6. I’d make a tomato aubergine recipe that my French host mother used to make way back when. Man that was a simple but tasty recipe!

  7. This French toast looks amazing. My 8 year old would love to cook it in the skillet… Her favourite thing at the moment is to make us all breakfast on a Saturday morning. So lovely!

    1. HUGE congrats Carla, you are the lucky winner! I’ll be in touch via email right away so we can get your prize sent out.
      Massive thank you to everyone for taking the time to enter and to Le Crueset (who now have a NZ shop in Auckland FYI) for this amazing prize.

  8. Wow, what beautiful pans. I’d be tempted by the old school orange, but think the mint is the one I’d choose. I would cook your buckwheat, banana and berry pancakes from book 1 and serve them up with some of this delicious looking rhubarb. Thanks Emma & Le Creuset for the opportunity 🙂

  9. Yum Emma, this sounds so delicious! I can’t wait to try this recipe! Because I’m in Melbourne I’m entering for my mama 🙂 and I know she would make banana & blueberry pancakes for my brother and sister’s breaky!

  10. Am definitely going to try the dukkha!!
    I’d love this pan, and as it my birthday at the weekend, I would use I think to make a big spinach and feta frittata for my friends for the ‘morning after the night before…. ‘ but no doubt it would get heaps of use week in week out!

  11. I love cooking the kiwi classic pikelets. My family love them, especially my grandchildren. This skillet looks fabulous for pikelets. Much better than the teflon ones that lose their non-stick rapidly. So, I would definitely start by making a double batch of pikelets, then serve them up with cashew cream and homemade jam. Thanks for the competition Emma!

  12. French toast is a fav for the kids in this house. They even mix it up themselves beforehand so I can’t say no. Would definitely be the first thing we cook if we win. Plenty of rhubarb this year too.

  13. Probably my first thing would be your recipe ;-)) it’s looks amazing!! just always ;-))
    or maybe my 10 years old favorite, the hungarian pancakes.

  14. I would cook your baked beans. We use haloumi instead of feta or crack some eggs in for baked beans and eggs

  15. Oo la la! I would loooove this skillet pan to give to my mum so she can cook her delish Spanish omelette and chargrilled Cajun veges 😋

  16. I would make soaked buckwheat pancakes to have with your beautiful roast rhubarb and and hazelnut orange dukkah with a dollop of coconut yogurt ❤️❤️❤️

  17. I would love to win a pan! I would make your divine looking french toast recipe recipe with local brioche bread, yum

  18. I would like to say this would be my pan in which to scramble eggs, flip mini buckwheat pancakes, gently fry some fresh fish but! I really know it is more likely to be pilfered slyly by my nearly 6yr old to concoct a tasty treat involving baking soda, vinegar and food colouring 😂

  19. I would totally love to make this beautiful looking french toast! It looks so delicious! And rhubarb is an absolute favourite of mine and I’ve never tried roasting it before so this would give me a great reason to give it a go!

  20. This looks Devine, the dukkah will be very useful!! I would love to make my Turkish egg recipe 😜

  21. Omg- I would love this fry pan. It is hard to know what would be the first thing cooked it in if I won. As with all things new I like to ponder and make it special. BUT- my kids love French toast and we all love your buckwheat banana and berry pancakes so I reckon it would be either of those.
    Fingers crossed !!!🤞🏻

  22. A lovely bit of fresh snapper rolled in seasoned flour of your choice with chopped parsley thru it, then some egg followed by panko breadcrumbs or gf option with grated Parmesan mixed in. Cook in ghee and serve in a corn taco with a pineapple, mint salsa and some greens. Beer or wine necessary…Boom!

  23. My husband makes the best omelets and this pan looks perfect for it. But your french toast looks great as well, I love rhubarb.

  24. I would most definitely first make this delicious looking french toast in the pan if I was to win it. The french toast looks amazing and so does the pan!

  25. Hey just throwing my name in for the competition. I would obv like to make this recipe with the skillet but also I would but it to the test with a giant upside down apple gf pancake 🙂

  26. The first thing I would cook is rhubarb and apple tarte tartin served with whipped ginger coconut cream. The rhubarb in the garden is plentiful, and I love the combination of caramalized fruit wrapped in pastry accompanied with the texture of something soft and zingy. A Le Creuset skillet pan is perfect for this dish….and a one pan wonder!

  27. Think the first thing I would try would have to be this Yummy french toast recipe you have just shared 🙂

  28. Yay! great offer. The good thing about these pans is that you can put them in the oven so you could do the whole recipe in the one pan. Rhubarb first, set aside, rinse the pan and do the dukkah, rinse again and do the french toast.

  29. Ooooh, what a super contest! My family would sooo love one of these pans! First food we’d make? Most likely Vegan Spelt Pancakes – with cherries + raspberries – as our small family eats them pretty much every Sunday morning. Your French Toast recipe looks incredible! We have an entire raised bed just for rhubarb so we’ll try this recipe for sure. Best French Toast I ever tried was while on holiday up in Canada: thick fluffy slices of bread stuffed with fresh apricots + ricotta cheese. Divine.

  30. Actually I’d give the skillet to my 4 year old son who cooks with me from your books and I’d ask him to choose.
    I should send you pics of my copies of your much loved and used books with tags everywhere and recipe notes scrawled underneath (usually reminding me of how I did not follow the recipe) and speckled greasy fingerprints on the pages of our favourite recipes.

  31. Wow! That French toast looks yum. The first think I’d make in a new skillet would be chilaquiles which I haven’t made in years.

  32. Emma, I would definitely have to make this delicious-looking and sounding recipe for French Toast as the very first thing to be cooked in my new Le Creuset Skillet Pan…wish me luck! 🙂

  33. I’d cook an orange and almond skillet cake. Yummmmm! This recipe is ace – thank you! I’m currently cooking my way through your a year in my real food kitchen. Pumpkin korma tonight. Delicious!

  34. Oh my! Definitely trying roast rhubarb! Such a lovely colour. What to make in a new skillet…. maybe gluten free French toast for a dear friend with coeliac. It would be very cool to have a GF pan… she is very sensitive to any trace of gluten and she is not a cook so this would be a real act of friendship and awhi- a pan kept for GF food!

  35. WOW! I love the texture and looks delicious pancakes. I love the combination of caramelized fruit wrapped in pastry accompanied.

  36. For me it would have to be pikelet’s. A family tradition. Now needing to be made gluten free.

  37. I’m a sweet-ish breakfast person so would be pancakes or yup, French toast !!!!! this looks & sounds delish – & thanks to you & le Creuset for giving us all the opportunity to be in to win a coveted kitchen addition 🙂

  38. I would fry fish, freshly caught gurnard, for delicious home made soft masa tacos.
    My colour of pan would be solid black.

  39. I’d make an apple tart tatin, the queen of apple tarts in our household. Le Creuset pans are perfect for this a the apples can be caramelised on the stove top, then when they cool, covered with pastry and finished in the oven. Yum!

  40. I LOVE rhubarb but have never roasted it! I will definitely be trying that out. As for the skillet – I’d probably make myself a grilled cheese 🙂

  41. It would have to be pancakes. I finally found a gluten and dairy free recipe that I liked recently – gluten free for me and dairy free for my fiancé!

  42. Emma your recipes never fail to inspire me! If I win the beautiful Le Cruset pan I would give your French toast a try for sure! In fact I’m going to do it anyway 😊✌🏻💫

  43. I would make a spicy shakshuka – with some dukkah on top (inspired by your French toast) plus loads of fresh parsley

  44. Wow my journey to plant based whole food started when I found your ‘My Darling Lemon Thyme’- still experimenting with falafel tho. SO I would make a Falafel Burrito.

  45. I’d make a chickpea flatbread that sticks to the bottom of my supposedly non stick pan! Plus this french toast recipe sounds delicious 🙂

  46. Probably scrambled eggs for my 9 month old as that’s a daily occurrence at the moment! But it’s fishing season again so we will have lots of fresh fish and seafood to be cooked in it too 🙂

  47. I would have to go with this recipe if I were lucky enough to be a winner… Thank you so much for making my gluten free life so much easier. I love both your books, one of my life goals is to cook every recipe in them!

  48. I’d make sourdough pancakes, served with lemon zest & juice, maple syrup and toasted hazelnuts. Followed by a mushroom and asparagus frittata for lunch 🙂

  49. Beautiful idea! I’m keen to try your method of roasting rhubarb, as I’ve only ever had it my mum’s way: boiled to death with what seemed like one part rhubarb to 5 parts sugar. Hehe. Also, since my flatmate wrecked my only good pan a while ago, a Le Creuset skillet would be SO awesome! I’d definitely use it to make French toast, as I’ve been on a sourdough baking craze lately and finding myself with surplus, slightly stale bread which would be perfect if I only had a decent pan. 🙂 (I’d have to hide it from my flatmate, though…)

  50. Literally everything. Student life means I have only used terrible pans for years! Would love to have a go at this recipe, maybe replacing the eggs with mashed banana to make it vegan 🙂

  51. Yelp! A Le Cruset pan! … What would I make first? Lately I’ve been addicted to crunchy, fried chickpeas, with either sweet (cinnamon sugar) or savoury (salt and orregano) seasoning. Basic, I know- but my. god. so. good. Making these have made relentlessly hard work of cleaning my basic pans- I know a Le Cruset could handle making these with minimal elbow grease required! Eek, I’m all excited just at the possibility!

  52. I’d probably be making some GF DF pikelets, which are a bit of a treat these days. What a great prize!

  53. Soooooo generous of you both – definitely pancakes…… with lots of fruit on the side & lemon honey to dollop on top …

  54. Oh my goodness, my dream! I LOVE their products, but could never afford to buy an item myself (except a basting brush!!). I would cook buckwheat pancakes for my babies, and they would turn out so much better than on my old pan 🙂 Good luck everyone! Keep up the great work Emma

  55. Either buckwheat pancakes with this rhubarb or a nice omelette with kale and herbs from the garden!

  56. I’d make French toast! I made some this morning for my son, sourdough bread, bacon, fried banana and maple syrup!! Yum!!

  57. Oh how I LOVE rhubarb!

    If it were for breakfast, I would make banana and almond pancakes; for lunch, pasta with sauce from whatever is in the fridge; for dinner, kadai chicken.

    This is making me hungry…

  58. I’d make corn fritters! Or a roasted tomato and goats cheese frittata… I would love this pan – I tried to “borrow” my parents’ one when I moved out many moons ago ha. Nice try they said! xo

  59. That recipe looks amazing! I think I’d break in this amazing skillet by cooking some old fashioned scrambled eggs (with garlic, butter, goat feta and parsley). And a side of spinach out of the garden. Holy tastebuds!

  60. Hmm first thing I’ll make will be crepes for the kids and for their mum but after that – who knows!

  61. Oooh! I love roasted rhubarb – and it’s going wild in my garden at the moment y so I think Sunday brunch for tomorrow is sorted 🙂
    As for the pan, banana oat hot cakes (yes I am a brunch fiend) would be my first dish if I was lucky enough to win. ❤️ Le Creuset

  62. the truth is our first cook would almost definitely be a coconut oil fried egg which is my growing 5 year olds almost daily breakfast. And then I’d be onto your French toast recipe quick smart because it ticks all my yummy requirements, I love that rhubarb is in season!

  63. This would be such a great addition to our kitchen! It would be the perfect size for our everyday favorite breakfast: banana and blueberries pancakes! Yum! Thanks for sharing those delicious recipes! x

  64. I would make breakfast, lunch and dinner! It would be amazing for making my favourite quinoa, spinach and eggplant dish. Yum.

  65. Sautéed dark leafy greens with fresh thyme from the garden, lemon zest, garlic, made creamy with a little sprouted almond butter and finished off with hot smoked paprika. YUM!

  66. Pipi fritters…mmm nice bite size ones just right for dunking into a chilli and or homemade tatare sauce with a squeeze of lemon

  67. This looks like the most amazing brekky. I’m on a low FODMAP diet & am so excited that this ticks all the boxes. I’ve just had a little bubba so I if I won the pan I might ask my partner to cook this up ;). Thanks for continuing to feed my food inspiration on the regular!

  68. This looks Delish Em!
    First cook in a new skillet would most likely be some kind of Sunday brunch, omlette or French toast, toasted almonds or all of the above!!

  69. This is so yummmy. I’ll crack in some eggs and tomatoes to make a hearty omelette! I’ve never had such a good pan before. It will definitely make awesome food .

  70. I think I would have to cook this French toast in gratitude of winning and odbthr beautiful recipes you create and share. In have rhubarb growing and saved fennel seeds in the pantry and also love being able to use things we have grown in recipes.

  71. Banana pancakes! Hopefully made by someone else and presented to me – it is a bit hard to get into the kitchen with a 10 week old baby!

  72. The first thing I’d make would be poached egg/portobello mushroom/wilted spinach,stacked on toast…………..yummo

  73. This would be awesome. The first thing I would cook is Huevos Rancheros – can’t beat it on the weekend!

  74. I would love one of these! The first thing I would make would probably be something quick and easy like a fried egg…. with plenty of butter and sage!

  75. kia ora this looks like the most awesome skillet for anything when saute or fry required. So Waitekaha and I had a little think what would be great to cook in this skillet, from pancakes, bacon, eggs, sweetcorn fritters until she was YES Mussel fritters!!! haha.

  76. Yum Emma this looks amazing.
    I love rhubarb, and dukkah, haven’t tried them together before though

    First thing I would make is burger patties with beans and the greens from the CSA box I just got, and parsley which is just about the only thing I’ve got growing right now
    And I’d make pancakes …

  77. Oh my goodness, if I was lucky enough to win I would totally make that French toast….no pancakes……..or eggs……..maybe all of the above!!! 🙂

  78. Where have you been all my life Le Cruset skillet?!!! I am gluten intolerant but LOVE bread!! So I would use this pan to make a potato rosti base for pizza… thin and crispy ❤️

  79. Wow this looks amazing. I think it would have to be perfect scrambled eggs using Taika Waititi’s epic recipe! Plus a few extras like homemade hashbrowns and onions.

  80. I would make a frittata with paper thin potato slices, spinach, onion, nutmeg in the egg mix and the 3 cheeses on the top and transfer skillet to oven to brown cheese and cook through.

  81. My mother is teaching my aunt and me to play Mahjong. I am loving making it a regular Sunday family time….. so the first thing I’d cook in this beautiful Le Creuset skillet would be little dumplings for our ‘break time’.

  82. Wow wee, this would be a very welcome addition to my kitchen !
    I am going to try my hand at homemade Muesli Bars and the chosen recipe requires the seeds and grains to be browned off in a frying pan. So, I would make this dish first.
    I also really love your recipe for DF French Toast and Dukkah, it sounds incredible ! A step-up from the stewed rhubarb and rice bubbles I regularly ate at my grandmother’s growing up x

  83. Ohhhh this looks delicious, I really love the idea of the sweet dukkah sprinkle too. If I’m lucky enough to win one of these gorgeous pans I think it’d have to be pancakes or French toast for that first dish. Something simple and soul pleasing.

  84. I would definitely try this recipe, rhubarb is my absolute favourite, and one of the only things I can grow in my garden in abundance! I would absolutely love to win such a beautiful prize.

  85. I’ve been hanging out to try a breakfast recipe in my new Persian cookbook – The Saffron Tales. It’s a date and cinnamon omelette. I would love a long lazy Sunday morning with a new pan and a new recipe and the kids taken out somewhere so I could enjoy it with my tumeric latte. Maybe I could even read a book!!

  86. Yum, I’ve just picked the rhubarb from the garden ready. The first thing I’d have to cook would be simple fried eggs on toast for my nearly 3 yr old, it’s his favourite.

  87. Roasted rhubarb = so much delicious!

    Since asparagus has just come into season they would definitely be the first thing I’d cook in this pan. Either simply lightly blanched then covered in lemon juice and zest or sauteed in olive oil and herbs then eaten on a fresh slice of buttery sourdough with some goats feta.

  88. I am hungry for brunch again! Would need to give that a go of course, and taste test 🙂 As for a first recipe, I’d love to try dairy free, gluten free frittata with leeks and pancetta. I can already hear and smell the leeks cooking first.

  89. The first thing I’d cook would probably be stir-fried veg (whatever I have in the garden or fridge), and a fried egg – topped with avo, kraut, sprouts & seeds – best breakfast ever! I currently have a tiny skillet, so it would be great to have one big enough to cook this combo for more than just me! Fingers crossed….

  90. I would be making some French toast and challenging myself to cook new and exciting things in this amazing skillet

  91. Would love to win this! The first thing I’d cook would probably be buckwheat banana pancakes for the family

  92. I would cook duck fat potatoes – cast iron is perfect for heating the oil and searing the outsides of the potatoes, then going into the oven to finish cooking! Yum yum!

  93. Yum! And what a prize, now that summer is on the horizon all I can think about is fish so fish it would be for me!

  94. Ooooh french toast and coconut! My dream combo. The first thing I’d cook would probably be a corn, asparagus and goats cheese frittata. Yum.

  95. 👋 that French toast looks amazing!! I would however fry up some homemade halloumi and 🍑🍑🍑for a simple salad on the hopefully warmer days to come ☀️

  96. Mmm that French toast looks Devine .. so that would def. be a first in the frypan
    Otherwise fried eggs in butter and sage or beautiful fresh fish 🐟🙏🏼

  97. I don’t know where to start as it would get used for so many wonderful dishes created with love, fresh wholesome foods and shared across a big table with family and friends…
    This pan would become something I hope I could pass down to my daughters and use to inspire them to create their own home made goodies.
    I’d probably christen this very simply with some lightly poached asparagus seeing as I saw the first batch this week in store

  98. Wow what a fabulous giveaway prize, have always wanted to have a le creuset anything 😋 the first thing I would cook is a Shashuka, we love having them for weekend breakfasts! And those coconut french toasts look absolutely amazing!

  99. Probably an omelette – instant meal! Followed by shallots sweetened with sultanas & a splash of balsamic..

  100. The first thing I would make would be yummy banana oat pancakes for Saturday morning breakfast with berries and a drizzle of maple syrup.

  101. Wow such beautiful food and a magical tool. I would make roasted field muchroom stuffed with cashew cheese, thyme and sundries tomatoes.

  102. Bet I’m the lucky lady to comment! I’d make Scrambled eggs for breakfast. Love my Le Creuset oval casserole that we got for a wedding present and definitely want more. It will last a lifetime.

  103. Socca with rosemary and lots of black pepper. One of my fave weeknight go tos. But it’s all about the skillet. Crispy edges, mmm… like only a Le Creuset can do.

  104. Toast always my choice when I wanna have quickly and healthy breakfast. Sounds great when I can keep dukkah for a long time by fridge. Thanks for your sharing!

  105. We prefer pancakes or waffles over french toast in our nest, but I will try that rhubarb…I don’t know what’s more beautiful the rhubarb or the Creuset? Happy feasting.

  106. I can’t tell you how amazing it is to finally come to a blog where each and every step is simple to make. With a very delicious treats and meals! I will be preparing my basket next week to make that coconut French toast! Thank you so much!