Toast, Costa Rican Style

In the past few years, I've eaten about 50% of my toast this way. In Costa Rica, rice and beans is called "Gallo Pinto," and it's cooked with a famous (at least here) sauce called "salsa Lizano." It's often served with heavy sour cream called natilla on the top. In this case, I accompanied my gallo pinto with an omelet and a bit of tomato.

Sexy Toaster Alert!

Thanks to Julien (aka Julio) for the tip-off about this beautiful toaster on sale at Sears.com:

Man, you don't even know what kinds of toast I'd make with that toaster! Thanks again for the tip!

Have a nice day, and stay toasty!

Sitztoast Goes Hipster! (Or does it??)

I recently started using Instagram. It's a great tool for getting interesting pictures of landscapes, architecture, and people, but when it comes to food, it's hard not to have your photos turn out looking like something from a 1970s picture menu from the Soviet Union. Case in point:

Toast with tomato, cream cheese, basil, and pepper.

 

Toast with refried beans and cheese.

The toaster itself.

In real life, all of these looked great and tasted delicious, but when processed with various strange filters, the result looks like something you'd feel guilty feeding to the dog. I may have to stick with my nice camera when it comes to toast pictures. Or do you, dear reader, have any suggestions?

Keep toasty!

A Heartwarming Toast Picture of Staggering Something-Or-Other

I couldn't think of words to justly describe such a lovely picture:

Here's mom, checking out toasters in Bed, Bath, and/or Beyond. Simply great! Thanks for modeling, ma, and sorry for the crappy cell-phone picture!

Colorado Toast Pictorial!

We recently went to Colorado, and the toast flowed like water filled with bread crumbs! Feast your eyes on these pictures and see for yourself:

My folks know how to toast bread properly. A nice, white KitchenAid toaster will do the trick real nicely... wait a minute, what's that I see on the bread bag?

"Great Harvest Bread Company"?? Aha! I knew it! As I predicted a few weeks ago in a previous post, my mom may be scheming to make her own toast blog, toasting only Great Harvest Bread Company bread! In fact, one of the first things mom said when we got home was that if we were looking for something tasty for breakfast, there was some good whole-grain bread in the freezer. We'll see how this story develops, but if Ma Sitzman starts her own toast blog, this good, old-fashioned mom-and-pop Toastblog may be doomed! Ironically, the mom-and-pop Toastblog in this scenario is a son-and-daughter-in-law Toastblog, and it would be a mom with her international conglomerate, backed by the military-toast complex, that would be issuing the hostile takeover of this humble little blog. Stay tuned!

In the end, though, that was some damn fine toast! Strawberry cream cheese on one slice and peanut butter with honey on the other? It's time to say those three, magical words: "What a country!"

Thanks for reading, and keep toasty!

Toastecdote! (Toast Anecdote, Obviously)

This is not actually the sandwich I ate this morning, but it is
a Cuban sandwich I ate at Miami International Airport.

The guy at the Miami airport café asked me if I wanted my Cuban sandwich toasted or not. ¡Por Favor!

I guess my reputation as a fan of all things toast has yet to precede me.

Toast Survey!

In our previous post, I mentioned a good article about toast racks. The author is a great writer, and I've also been following her on Twitter. The other day she sent a link to a survey about toast, and if you've got about 1 or 2 minutes, you can take it, too! Just click here to open the survey.

Happy Toasting!