Best Bread to use for French Toast?? And where in BR to get it??

Challah

Brioche! If you can't find it then I would use Challah.

Brioche makes the best French toast. I was going to tell you to go to Farmer's Market Thursday or Saturday and visit Forte Grove, but I got an email that they will be out of town this week.

They do sell their breads at Calandro's on Perkins/Siegen.

I've used Challuh, but usually I use whatever French bread I have lying around. I don't follow a recipe. I whisk up some eggs with cream, 1/2 and 1/2 or milk, usually cream. I like it rich and I eyeball the texture until it's good and eggy. Maybe about 4 to 6 eggs to about a pint of cream. You can tell how eggy it is. I add a good bit of cinnamon vanilla sugar (I think Cajun Power is the brand in a container much like Tony's but a different color) and I use either real vanilla extract or McCormick's vanilla, butter and nut extract because the kids really like that one. It smells like a pecan cake. I put a lot of that. Soak the bread and fry it on a griddle. We sprinkle it with powdered sugar and the kids like to dip it in syrup and some of the cinnamon sugar mixture. I can eat it with nothing. Mine is pretty sweet without the additions.

country loaf or brioche for me

Alton Brown's French Toast

I used this method a few weeks ago. I bought some sourdough bread at the store, sliced it the night before and let it sit out and get stale. The next morning, I cooked it in the skillet, and then baked it in the oven for a few minutes. It came out perfect.

Be sure and watch the video that goes along with the recipe.