Tuesday Tea: Share something delicious you like to put on toast, please.
Sweet, savory, both? Tell us!
The Toasts That I Have Loved: A Meditation by Melissa Joulwan
Morning seeded rye with butter and butter and butter
Soft midnight white with peanut butter and banana
Crunchy crostini with cream cheese and figs
Whole wheat with Muenster cheese outside the library
Murder toast with a perfect ham omelet (Buen día, Tarragona!)
Czech rye rubbed with garlic, spread with butter, and sprinkled with salt (Dobry večer, Na Louži!)
British toasting bread (best in Prague here) with salted butter and Nutella
Italian white with sesame seeds, salted butter, and smashed sardines
(Dave asked me to tell you all that he also likes toast.)
Easy Recipes to Try
I’ve had these two recipes kicking around my laptop for months (from email to desktop to recipes folder to ‘ideas for next Christmas.’) They look really good, but I haven’t tried them yet:
International Inspiration
Beryl Shereshewsky has done a 10-part series on toast toppings from around the world. Here’s a playlist of all the individual installments with five recipes each. This video is an epic collection of 27 ideas:
She starts the video by saying you should upgrade if you’re simply topping toast with butter. Counterpoint: A perfectly toasted slice of bread with a generous amount of French salted butter is a culinary work of art. Fight me.
Butter, cinnamon and sugar
Ricotta and thinly sliced tomato with salt and pepper! Or anything.