Do you love toast?

Toast is very easy to make and can be delicious. Thinking of it, I usually eat 2 pieces of toast or an english muffin and a cup of coffee for breakfast every day. Its easy and good, and you do not have to keep fresh milk in the house which can be a problem if you do not have a lot of folk around to drink it. Its crisp and warm and comforting. What is your favorite bread for toast, and what do you put on it? I love toasted turano bread with butter. Also I like rye toast with peanut butter. I also like sunmaid raisin bread toasted and I like to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on it. I like raspberry and strawberry jams without seeds and my favorite is Hero cherry jam. Cinnamon toast is a staple especially children love it with a cup of hot chocolate in winter. A quick lunch is two pieces of bread toasted with mustard and a couple slices of cheddar. Do tell about your toast love.

I wouldn't trust a person who doesn't love toast.

I'm eating it especially often now, as the tomatoes in the garden are ripening in spades. Two slices of bread, a thin smear of mayo, fresh tomatoes with salt and pepper. Heaven. Pure heaven.

Yes. and let us not forget the delicious P'amb tomaquet which is a form of toast.

Toast is my comfort food. I eat it when I'm sick or sad or have an upset tummy. I love bread and the one tried and true way to improve on bread is to make it hot and crunchy!

Hi,

I like toast, especially spread with butter and sugar sprinkled on top. At restaurant breakfast service, I almost always order rye toast though I almost never do this at home.

In my other life, I once gave an employee in Moscow a toaster for Christmas. I could not imagine the response, his wife said she never thought she would ever own one. Whenever I came over, they always made toast.

Regards,

Toast should be it's own food group.

For normal breakfast toast my favorite is to toast a big chunk of baguette (sliced in half lengthwise), add some butter to it when it has browned a bit, and then throw some cheddar and black pepper on it and let it melt. I'm not sure if Crostini counts as toast, but I make it for 3-4 meals every week. Herbed Goat Cheese or Parmesan are my favorite toppings for that variation of toast. At least two or three times a week every meal I have contains a toast based element.

How do you make the crostini? Do you have to have a special kind of bread? Is it like garlic bread?

We eat "cheesy toast" almost every day for breakfast. Have for years. English Muffin, split, topped with aged white cheddar, run through toaster oven's highest toast setting, until melted and bubbly.

toria wrote:How do you make the crostini? Do you have to have a special kind of bread? Is it like garlic bread?

I mostly just use day (or two) old baguettes brushed with EVOO and sprinkled with S+P. If I'm grilling I'll do them on the grill, or use the toaster oven on broil.

My favorite bread for toast is white, but I've grown accustomed to wheat and sometimes prefer that instead. I prefer to have both butter and jam but sometimes I just do jam if I go out for breakfast and the meal is greasy, like eggs and bacon. I generally go for "red" jam and jelly, although I am a sucker for unusual flavors, like tomato. In Atlanta, I found a jar of TOE jam (tangerine, orange and elderberry) and FROG jam (fig, raspberry, orange and ginger), the latter of which was really fantastic.

I love toasted cinnamon raisin bread, but I don't buy that very often anymore. I love garlic bagels toasted til they're pretty hard in the oven, then slathered in butter...the butter softens them up and makes them chewy and crisp at the same time.

I've become of big fan of the tortas (La Brea?) sold at Costco. I split them and toast both sides under the broiler, then spread a little high quality peach jam made by the Amish. Crunchy on the outside and the tops are slightly chewy soft in the middle.

Good comfort food especially on sad days like this, the anniversary of Elvis' death..

Pie Lady wrote:I love toasted cinnamon raisin bread, but I don't buy that very often anymore.

Damn it, now I have this stuck in my craw. Guess I'll be baking some bread when I get home. But I found two recipes for whole wheat cinnamon raisin, so it will be healthier and I can clear out that glut of whole wheat flour in the freezer.

I hate ordinary wonder bread type of white bread. But I do love Turano bread toasted. The big round loaf. When I buy it I divide it and freeze half so it does not stale. Then I cut one of the large pieces in half so one large slice really equals 2 pieces of bread. They sell turano bread many places but I have also found it at Aldi. I also like the Thomas cinnamon and raisin English muffins. I toast them and sprinkle with a little sugar and cinnamon. For regular plain english muffins I like Bays.

Hi,

During the holidays, Thomas makes a pumpkin and a cranberry English muffin as well as Cranberry swirl bread. These were really super for toast and out-of-hand eating.

Regards,

What a fun thread! We found some Catherine Clark's wheat bread not that long ago. It is now sold under the Brownberry Ovens name but it says "Catherine Clark's original recipe" on the wrapper. This is a lightly-sweet, grainy brown bread. We like it all ways but especially with soft boiled eggs. The slice of toast is buttered and cut into four fingers for dipping into the soft eggs. It is directly from my childhood! All I would need is pajamas with feet to complete the picture.

Joy wrote:What a fun thread! We found some Catherine Clark's wheat bread not that long ago. It is now sold under the Brownberry Ovens name but it says "Catherine Clark's original recipe" on the wrapper. This is a lightly-sweet, grainy brown bread. We like it all ways but especially with soft boiled eggs. The slice of toast is buttered and cut into four fingers for dipping into the soft eggs. It is directly from my childhood! All I would need is pajamas with feet to complete the picture.

Make a pb&j with toasted CC's wheat bread sometime - it's out of this world.

Well I have Mark Bittmans no knead bread sitting raw on my counter now and I will bake it tomorrow. I will make toast out of it after I eat it fresh the first day.

Anybody ever make egg-in-a-hole? That sounds like fun but easy to mess up.

Yep. It's fun. It's easy. It's kind of a silly, though. A piece of toast with a fried egg over it is better, IMHO. It's something I think of as "for the kids." The only part of it that might be precarious is the flip, but it's really not difficult at all.

Rick T. wrote:I've become of big fan of the tortas (La Brea?) sold at Costco. I split them and toast both sides under the broiler, then spread a little high quality peach jam made by the Amish. Crunchy on the outside and the tops are slightly chewy soft in the middle.

Good comfort food especially on sad days like this, the anniversary of Elvis' death..

I was at Costco last week and I bought a Costco-sized, giant jar (46 oz.) of E.D. Smith Apricot Preserves for around $5. They were sampling it and after tasting, I had to buy some. It's mostly just apricots with some corn syrup and sugar added for consistancy and sweetness. Next time you're buying tortas, pick up a jar of this stuff to go with them. They also make strawberry presereves, which were quite good, too.

Pie Lady wrote:I generally go for "red" jam and jelly, although I am a sucker for unusual flavors, like tomato.

You should try these. All you have to do is go to Vegas.

Hash House Homemade Jelly Assortment

That's a lot of jelly!
What were the pink ones, do you remember?

When I worked in a hotel, one of the chefs made fresh strawberry jam just by cooking down the berries forever. It was fantastic, and I don't think she added much more than lemon juice. I remember making mascarpone thumbprint cookies with that in the center. Mmmm...

And this will come as a surprise to no one, but lately I've been enjoying wheat toast with goat butter and strawberry jelly (just the Smuckers kind). Delicious!

Pie Lady wrote:That's a lot of jelly!
What were the pink ones, do you remember?

The pink ones were either watermelon or rhubarb.

stevez wrote:

Rick T. wrote:I've become of big fan of the tortas (La Brea?) sold at Costco. I split them and toast both sides under the broiler, then spread a little high quality peach jam made by the Amish. Crunchy on the outside and the tops are slightly chewy soft in the middle.

Good comfort food especially on sad days like this, the anniversary of Elvis' death..

I was at Costco last week and I bought a Costco-sized, giant jar (46 oz.) of E.D. Smith Apricot Preserves for around $5. They were sampling it and after tasting, I had to buy some. It's mostly just apricots with some corn syrup and sugar added for consistancy and sweetness. Next time you're buying tortas, pick up a jar of this stuff to go with them. They also make strawberry presereves, which were quite good, too.

Thanks!

Brits are obsessed with toast. Toast is often made into a meal with the most popular being beans on toast. Other popular items are Scrambled egg on toast, sardines on toast(canned of course!), tinned plum tomatoes, poached egg, creamed mushrooms...the list is endless. My mum used to say," what would you like for lunch on toast?" I still love toast and have half a freezer full of bread from Boulangerie du Monde in Cedarburg WI to make the most fabulous toast. I also really like to make toast with polish multigrain. I love unsalted butter and strawberry jam or marmite. In fact i think ill have a piece right now!

Pie Lady wrote:Anybody ever make egg-in-a-hole? That sounds like fun but easy to mess up.

I rarely eat egg-in-a-hole, but was served it several times a week when I was a child 50 years ago. Today, I make it sometimes, when my grand-daughter is in town.

I do not get the british obsession with beans on toast. Not even good beans just garden variety Heinz beans many of us would not even eat. Toast I can see, but can not get on the beans and toast bandwagon.

I do not get the british obsession with beans on toast. Not even good beans just garden variety Heinz beans many of us would not even eat. Toast I can see, but can not get on the beans and toast bandwagon.

It took the British multiple decades to recover from the meat rationing and privation of WWII - this was certainly one of the primary holdovers. I recall that the first time I was in London in 1972, I was surprised to see this appearing as a regular menu item, particularly in teahouses; I still saw it occasionally well into the 1990's (!). Old habits die hard.

toria wrote:I do not get the british obsession with beans on toast. Not even good beans just garden variety Heinz beans many of us would not even eat. Toast I can see, but can not get on the beans and toast bandwagon.

Oddly, I frickin love those Heinz beans. Never had them on toast, but whenever they were put in front of my as part of an Irish or English fry-up, I went to town on them & wiped the plate clean with toast...so in a way, I kinda have had beans on toast

toria wrote:I do not get the british obsession with beans on toast. Not even good beans just garden variety Heinz beans many of us would not even eat. Toast I can see, but can not get on the beans and toast bandwagon.

Even though it wasn't my comfort food growing up, I totally loved Heinz beans on toast from the first time I was introduced to it in Scotland. (Same with Marmite.) There was something nice about the textural counterpoint of mushy beans on crispy toast, kind of in the same way that I like a grilled cheese sandwich, with the oozing cheese as the soft, gooey component.