Toast?
I love my one piece most mornings.
The act of toasting bread brings such a transformation, not only in the bread, but the pulsing fibre of every molecule in my bod. It is my go to food, if I am feeling poorly I weakly murmur
‘I think I’ll have a piece of toast!’
polishing it off in the style of a dictator shovelling down steroids.
Coursing through my body the toast has magical properties reaching the parts a poofy pain au chocolate can only dream of. Nonchalantly I stroll to my witches cupboard of spells, potions, jam and condiments of a cunning kind.
‘What shall I anoint my staff of life with today I idly wonder as I survey the serried ranks of preserves? Will it be Marmite, peanut butter or Bovril of the beefy kind? Damson, plum and cinnamon, greengage all of the above of the scrumped kind? Marmalade: Seville through to Dundee and back on the Cordon bleu Orient Express.
Bullace jam for a touch of sophistication?
Butter a must; margarine go cry your artificial eyes out on the lab bench of Dr. Flora Crippen.
What is it about toast...
a combustible of culinary passion out of proportion to its humbleness? Only asking?
Toast..the smell, the texture,the taste...and more digestible than bread!
ReplyDeleteComfort food in all its glory. A simple brekkie, a swish starter with pate, with cheese to end a fine meal. ‘Let them eat toast!’
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I too love toast, I love it with puddles of butter! My condiment of choice is strawberry jam, made with my own fair hands or tomato, I love a sliced tomato on toast!
ReplyDeleteI feel quite hungry now but its too near dinner time to have some toast! x
I see I have some toasty chums here. A humble staple for proud women.
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The joy of toast is tasting everything in it and about it. The grains of the bread. The exact toastiness of the bread. The butter in the bread, and the jam (only jam) on the butter. The crusts, for they are more toasty than the bread. And finally, the several bites that are not crust, but wholly bread and butter and jam. There is no other breakfast!
ReplyDeleteOh how I so wholeheartedly agree Joanne!
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Toast is so . . . compulsory . . for breakfast that I am on automatic pilot when I enter the kitchen in the morning. Yesterday I fancied a bacon sandwich for a change, so out came the frying pan, in with the 4 slices of streaky bacon and . . . into the toaster went 2 slices of thickly sliced bread!!!!
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOO! A bacon sandwich needs pure, unadulterated BREAD! Not even butter is allowed on mine, maybe a quick dip into the hot bacon fat.
So does anyone want 2 slices of cold toast? Anyone?
Oh err... you are a one! Bacon butty, no less... Me, me, me I lurve cold toast, well any sort, if I am being honest!
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