Casserollin' with the Homies

So my girl Carolyn is coming to town this weekend, and the plan for this Sunday is to wake up and eat some breakfast casserole before we take her to Dulles and dump her on the curb.*

I asked Carolyn which brunch casserole she wants; I gave her about 6 choices.

We're going with the French Toast Bake, which I found on AllRecipes.com. AllRecipes is not Epicurious.com. It's not even FoodNetwork.com. It has some craptastic recipes on it, because people can just post some crazy shit.

But it is a veritable repository for comfort food and casseroles.

Like the French Toast Bake.

This recipe sounds freaking awesome, but there are some issues.

For example, the first ingredient: "12 day-old French bread."

Does this mean 12 slices of French bread?

Or an indeterminate amount of French bread that has been aged for 12 days?

Also: we will have to have a side of meat. Because this recipe contains no meat, and Curtis's gout could start to clear up if he doesn't get some meat. The protein in the pecans or eggs won't help, because neither pecans nor eggs are made of meat.

But I'm being a nitpicky baby, as this recipe sounds good and I'm excited about it. I'm making this. Also some sort of meat.


* No, seriously, we are so sad that she's leaving. She doesn't know it, but we're going to handcuff her to some permanent household fixture around 11:59 a.m. Sunday morning.