Toasted Bread or English Muffins
We're not talking sandwiches here, or fancier muffins or bagels or croissants or fruit/veggie breads.
Just bread or an English Muffin fresh out of the toaster to have with your coffee or tea or beverage of choice.
What do you usually and typically put on the toasted bread or muffin, that is always in your fridge or pantry?
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36 Comments:
I'll answer first. Always butter. Typical other toppings are orange marmalade, cinnamon sugar and my favorite is strawberry freezer jam. I'm also a sucker for grape jelly. I have other favorites, but don't always have them on hand.
PerkyMac at 12:12PM on 10/20/08
Good imported butter (salted) is always my first choice. Once in a great while I might put some really good preserves or apple butter on a few bites, but I'm not big on sweet stuff, so, mostly I just indulge in good butter. And, unfortunately, I'm prone to use more of it than I really need. But I don't eat much toast, so WTH...
However. If I'm not feeling well, or if I need some comfort and nobody's around to give it, or if I want something dessert-ish when there's no such thing on hand, then I like to have cinnamon toast. Accompanied by chamomile tea if I'm not feeling well, or hot cocoa if I'm seeking comfort.
LoCo at 12:24PM on 10/20/08
12 grain bread with salted butter and sometimes fig preserves....
Pavlov at 12:29PM on 10/20/08
If I have English muffins (which usually I don't) I'd go for that. With butter. Maybe cream cheese. In a restaurant, I might put jelly on, but I seldom have jelly open at home, unless I've been using it for some recipe.
I think with an English Muffin, I'm more apt to get carried away with the butter because of the way it melts into the holes.
There's usually a loaf of bread around, so in terms of what I'd eat most often, that's it. Usually just with butter. Maybe a sprinkle of cinnamon.
dbcurrie at 12:36PM on 10/20/08
I put all kinds of stuff on my toasted bread or English muffins (in fact, right now I have 2 EM halves in front of me, each topped with a different aubergine salad), pretty much whatever I have in the fridge. That said, my all-time toast/EM favourite has a thin layer of butter, followed by orange marmalade and sprinkled with sea salt. This is certainly something I always have on hand.
This year, since I've made plenty of raspberry preserves as well as peach and apple butter, I sometimes use them instead of orange marmalade.
brooke29 at 12:41PM on 10/20/08
I like hummus on English muffins, or refried beans. Yes, I know that I'm a freak of nature. On bread, honey and nut butter.
KarynMC at 12:47PM on 10/20/08
Anything I have toasted, as in put in a toaster, must be well-toasted. I like my toast to know it's toasted and not wimpy. My toast must not be "warmed up bread."
Having said that, here's how I garnish said toasted toast:
Bagel - Cream cheese & lox or just cream cheese
English Muffin - Butter, or apple butter, or peanut butter or orange marmalade.
Plain sliced bread toast (usually whole wheat) - Can run the gamut from butter to peanut butter to ricotta to marmalade.
Peasant Bread, French Baguette or Italian Bread - Dipped in olive oil with chopped garlic, herbs, S&P.
Though great bread in any incarnation should be good enough quality to be perfectly acceptable with NO topping - I sometimes use toasted bread as a vehicle on which something delicious travels into my mouth.
therealchiffonade at 12:49PM on 10/20/08
There aren't too many things better than homemade English muffins. That said, I'll take either those or toast with butter and pomegranate jelly.
buffy at 12:50PM on 10/20/08
Mmmmm - English muffin or hearty whole-grain bread, toasted with butter and whatever kind of jam is in the fridge. Favorites are orange marmalade and Sarabeth's strawberry-rhubarb preserves. But I'm just as happy with strawberry jelly!
CookiePie at 1:15PM on 10/20/08
Hmm, this reminds me that I should buy English muffins (I am in London, after all!). When I read the post, my immediate reaction was, "English muffin, of course! With either butter, peanut butter and banana, or aged gruyere!" when I realized that I haven't purchased English muffins in about six months, and have been eating whole grain toast for breakfast lately. Well, not for long!
Oh, and although I didn't actually purchase this English muffin, I had a truly fantastic English muffin at the Cheeseboard Collective in Berkeley, CA. Still warm from the oven, it was divine! (half with butter, half with gruyere)
ChristineB at 1:21PM on 10/20/08
I'm not that big a fan of English muffins - I'd much rather have some wonderful bread, toasted.
A childhood favorite is seeded rye with peanut butter - I still eat that, especially as the weather turns colder.
Another treat, however, is some hearty bread, toasted, spread with mascarpone cheese and drizzled with artisinal honeys or homemade preserves, and finally topped with toasted walnuts. Heaven!
La Divina at 1:28PM on 10/20/08
@buffy - you're so right! Ever since I first tried my hand at a batch of whole wheat English muffins, I can't imagine having store-bought ones any more. I just don't believe I haven't started making them earlier, it's so easy - and they turn out so gooood!
brooke29 at 1:28PM on 10/20/08
If it's toasted bread, then it's pretty much only butter. English muffins usually only get butter too, but sometimes I'll add raspberry jam, lemon curd or Nutella.
Amandarama at 1:33PM on 10/20/08
fresh well toasted italian bread sliced thick
enough to really crunch with real butter (salted) and a good cup of coffee.
huneybumper at 1:36PM on 10/20/08
I love dark bread made into toast, so I would have to say that a nice piece of pumpernickel toast with strawberry or raspberry jam is lovely. Otherwise, I love lighter breads with fig jam, which is hard to find where I live, but well worth it if you do. And finally, a nice English muffin with peanut butter sometimes is the best comfort food there is.
Traveller at 2:19PM on 10/20/08
English muffin with ricotta cheese and a drizzle of really good honey
AlexisfromTexas at 2:51PM on 10/20/08
English muffins and sweet butter I toast it well done...Some times I use honey~
rabbitriddle at 3:12PM on 10/20/08
English muffin with butter and maybe some honey. Toasted bread with butter or peanut butter.
lakeloverhh at 3:38PM on 10/20/08
English muffin with butter and orange marmalade. If it's toast, make it a huge slice of San Francisco sourdough and put a sunny-side up egg on top after you've buttered it well. With either, I'm with @therealchiffonade, it has to be truly toasted, not just frightened by a little heat.
czken at 4:07PM on 10/20/08
English muffin. Sometimes I make an eggwhite with cheese and chicken sausage, or I will make a Boca burger with cheese and spicy mustard, NEVER yellow/lellow mustard, basically what ever sandwich type stuff I can come up with will go on an English muffin.
izatryt at 4:40PM on 10/20/08
English muffin:
butter & apricot jam
cream cheese, tomato slice, slice of melted muenster cheese
PB and a drizzle of honey
fried egg and slice of cheese
Bread
hummus, bruschetta, tapenade, butter
KtMc24 at 4:42PM on 10/20/08
English muffin: good, flavorful butter
Toast: butter and cinnamon sugar, blackberry preserves (with seeds, please!), or peach butter
nightowl at 5:56PM on 10/20/08
Cinnamon sugar on plain white toast, with hot chocolate to drink. Very rarely I like a crispy toasted english muffin with butter and grape jelly with stong hot sugar-y tea to drink.
elderberry44 at 6:20PM on 10/20/08
thomas english muffin well toasted a little butter a lot of cream cheese with scallion and a thick slice of tomatoe
dearrie at 6:49PM on 10/20/08
Tomatoe? Can I giggle a little? Please?
nightowl at 6:53PM on 10/20/08
i know i know tomato. giggle away. it's been a long day.
dearrie at 7:21PM on 10/20/08
Nice 12 grain toast with salted butter. When going with Italian bread, I use butter, garlic salt and course ground black pepper.
Josdean at 8:49PM on 10/20/08
Mmmm Honeybumper! Love crusty Italian bread well toasted with salted butter and coffee too! Nothing better.
BUT, if there is a package of Thomas' English Muffs in the house, and no italian bread, then I'll gladly eat those with butter and honey.
When I was little my mom used to toast the english muffins with a slice of that american cheese you'd have to unwrap from the plastic (I'd call it plastic cheese...I wasn't far off I think) and she'd toast that until the cheese would bubble up with a big burnt spot. Surprisingly quite tasty in its own right.
juliebugsmama at 10:44AM on 10/21/08
Funny, one of my favorite snacks as a tiny kid was a piece of bread with a piece of american on it, cooked in the toaster oven till the cheese got all "wrinkly". =D
nightowl at 4:03PM on 10/21/08
I have an English muffin for breakfast 6 mornings out of 7, and it must be with salted butter, even though I never touch unsalted butter for any other purpose. But I will say this: English English muffins, which exist without our nooks and crannies, are better than the ones here!
Kerry Saretsky at 5:01PM on 10/21/08
an english muffin with Philadelphia Whipped Cream cheese and a glass of chocolate milk. great way to start a day.
dozertx at 11:56AM on 10/22/08
I would take either but I'd probably go for a crumpet before both of those for my toaster!
earlybirdkate at 12:06PM on 10/22/08
What my mood is for the time. I like both and will put anything on both of them. Except PBJ's, that has to preferabley be for me Wonderbread.
pjracz10 at 10:56AM on 10/27/08
A toasted english muffin with salted butter!
caramel at 11:11AM on 10/27/08
A toasted whole wheat english muffin with crumbled feta cheese.
It's the shiznit.
bringdis2dabank at 11:21AM on 10/27/08
I love toasted english muffins. I like to make pizza on them with turkey pepperoni, or I like to drizzle olive oil on them or just cheese. They are also great with hummus, or eggs on them as well. Yum! Posting this made me hungry. :)
yummydietfood at 4:16PM on 11/01/08