Banana, Strawberry and Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

Serves 9.

1 quart fresh strawberries
3 ripe bananas
2 tablespoons strawberry jam
1 large cake soft cream cheese
2 loaves wide French bread
1 dozen eggs
3 cups milk (at least 2% fat)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 bag frozen strawberries
1/2 cup sugar
Confectioners' sugar
1 pint blueberries

Chop strawberries and bananas, and cream them together with strawberry jam and cream cheese. Cut bread into 1 1/2-inch-thick slices. Cut a pocket into the bread but do not cut through the crust on the bottom. Stuff with the filling.

Mix the eggs, milk and vanilla extract in a bowl that is not too deep, so that the bread does not get soggy. Using tongs, take stuffed bread and put one side at a time into the egg mixture. Fry in butter until brown. Stack in a glass dish and keep warm in the oven until you're finished with the servings you need.

In a blender, liquefy 2 cups of frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup sugar and a little water to make a thick syrup.

Put one piece of the French toast on a plate. Top with the strawberry sauce. Sprinkle on confectioners' sugar, and scatter fresh blueberries around the plate. Serve at once.