So, now is the time of year when the academic year closes, students move out of the dorm, the campus dining halls shut down, and I'm left to make my own meals ... more or less when my life starts resembling that of a regular adult's just a little bit more than usual. It's also the time of my life when I am doing little else but sitting in my home or my office working on my dissertation, and I'm not doing any very involved baking or cooking at all. And it's also a week when it's been rainy and cold, when hot coffee and warm, buttered toast sound especially perfect. Some of the most delicious things don't require much to make happen.
So here are the two big, fat slices of toasted semolina bread I ate for breakfast this morning, just out of the toaster oven. In the process of getting buttered. With the very cold butter straight from the refrigerator that needs to melt a little on the warm toast before it can be spread.
And here is the very buttery toast ... oops, some of the crust broke off in the process of buttering. And hey, those seeds really make it happen. Check out that sesame on the crust.
So here are the two big, fat slices of toasted semolina bread I ate for breakfast this morning, just out of the toaster oven. In the process of getting buttered. With the very cold butter straight from the refrigerator that needs to melt a little on the warm toast before it can be spread.
And here is the very buttery toast ... oops, some of the crust broke off in the process of buttering. And hey, those seeds really make it happen. Check out that sesame on the crust.
