Torijas

I thought I'd share a Spanish recipe I learned today. It's really simple (and kinda weird...but tasty). They're called "torijas" and are eaten around the time of La Semana Santa (the Holy Week). La Semana Santa is a week with religious festivals...but for most people it's like the American Spring Break. Anyways, I made them with my host mom today and they're pretty good, so here's the recipe:

Torijas

French bread (not the really soft type but stuff a little firmer and denser, it's actually good if it's a bit old and dry. See the picture. I also saw a store selling bread for torijas which look like thick pieces of normal bread)
Eggs
Milk
Sugar
Cinnamon
Oil (lots, we used olive oil for a healthy alternative :)

1) Heat up a pan of oil (quite a bit because you'll deep fry the bread in it)
2) Cut the bread into circular slices
4) Crack some eggs into a bowl and mix them up
3) Fill a bowl with milk and soak the bread in it until it's completely...well, soaked through
4) Take the soaked through slice of bread and put it into the eggs, make sure it gets coated
5) Carefully put the slice of bread into the oil, leave it in there until it's a nice golden color, flip it over once (~1 min)
6) Mix the sugar and cinnamon together and roll the deep-fried bread in it

Now you have torijas! We put the torijas in a big bowl and covered it to let them get nice and wet. If you do this don't be surprised if they end up looking like soggy bread coated in sugar and cinnamon. My host mom mixed a little bit of the leftover milk with some leftover cinnamon sugar and some lemon juice into a small bowl and poured it over the torijas (only about 1/4 cup for 12 torijas). It's pretty simple, I didn't put in quantities because I think you can figure them out (and I don't know them).