French Toast with Shaved Apples and Bacon Beer Brats

Name: French Toast with Shaved Apples and Bacon Beer Brats
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 eggs; 1 cup whole milk; 3 tablespoons brown sugar; 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground cardamom; 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract; Pinch of sea salt; 12 slices multigrain bread, sliced 1/2 inch thick; 4 pork sausage links; 2 tart-sweet apples (Pink Lady or similar variety), cored and cut into matchsticks or small slivers; 1/4 cup maple syrup

December 14, 2011

If you really want to replicate the Chef Shack’s most popular fall dish, go organic with the eggs and milk, try to get your hands on some bacon beer brats (they use Fischer Farms), and crisp up the bread in a deep fryer. If that sounds out of reach for you, your favorite pork sausage links will do, and a griddle or frying pan should work almost as well.

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