Easy French Toast Recipe♥

This is one of the food requests of my nephew Lance,  he loves bread like me.  Last Saturday I don't have work so I decided to make his favorite - French Toast.  We both love French Baker's French toast so this is my version of it.

Ingredients:

8 slices of Gardenia White Bread (any bread of white bread can do)

2 eggs, beaten

3/4 cups evaporated milk

1 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp vanilla extract 

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp cooking oil

Cinnamon (optional)

Light/Pancake syrup (optional) 

Beat the eggs then add the milk, vanilla extract and sugar (you can add 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder).  Mix until the ingredients are incorporated. Pour some wet mixture on a plate and dip both sides of the white bread.  Make sure that both sides are coated evenly.

Cook coated bread slices on cooking oil and butter on a non-stick frying pan on medium heat until brown.

Tada! Now you have a French Toast!(*wink)

Served it as is or you may top with light pancake syrup.  Best served with Schublig sausages and scrambled egg.  You can also add fruits to it.  Best when served warm.

Here's an additional tip in making scrambled eggs, I love it to be creamy that is why I usually add milk on the beaten eggs before cooking it.  

'Til next recipe...

xo,

Chiq♥

My Accordion Organizer♥

Hi again! I know it's been a while... I really tried my best to make sure to upload a content every week but unfortunately last week... was really heartbreaking for our family.  My Lola (grand mother) passed away, she was the sister of my Lola (my mom's mother).  Yes people.. Covid is real... that is why we have to follow the protocols to protect each other. 

Anyway, what I want to share with all of you is my accordion money/receipts organizer.  When you are a follower of this blog you know that I am into organizing.  There is nothing fancy about this organizer but it was really a big help for me.  I use this to segregate my receipts and money.  

The organizer has 10 separate compartments and comes with label inserts.  It's A6 size so it can fit in your bag, in my case I just place it in my office table drawer.

For the receipts:  I segregate them to monitor my daily expenses, receipts for reimbursements, bills payment and etc. 

For the money:  There is a slot for savings, investment, "paluwagan", budget for meals, money set aside for payment of credit card and suppliers.

I really loved it when all are in place and properly organized.  I realized that when you are getting older you need to have a planning and organizing system, because you tend to forget a lot of things.  (I am a guilty of that..)

Before I end this post: I got my accordion organizer at National Bookstore are P78.00 only.

I hope you will learn something about this post.

Til my next post... Stay safe everyone!

xo,

Chiq♥

  

Emergency Fund - What it is and How to set it up?♥

source: Google.com

Emergency fund - What is it?  It is a fund that is set up as a safety net for unexpected expenses, like major car or house repairs, emergency illness.

Why do we need it?  Like what happened last year if we don't have savings or an emergency fund to cover the months that we are on lockdown.  Where can we get the money for our daily needs and to pay for our monthly bills?  2020 was really an eye opener for me and maybe for all of us.  I started setting up my emergency fund in 2019, it's not that big but it was a great help during the pandemic.  

How to set up an Emergency Fund?  Determine or compute your actual expenses for the month : Expenses such as meals, gasoline, utilities and etc.  From there you will be able to estimate how much emergency fund you need to set up.  

How much should I save?  You have to save at least have 6 months to 1 year worth to cover your living expenses.  In my case, I started saving a small amount of money and I tried to increase it if I have extra income.  I did this religiously every payday.  Now I am back to square one since we went back to work last May 2020 when the ECQ was lifted.  

I know it's not easy at first but you have to do it.  I admit I really regret doing this late, I should have done it when I was a little younger. 

Hope this will inspire you to set up your own emergency fund.

xo,

Chiq♥