... I couldn't even elicit a really cute version of "cinnamon" (i.e. "cimanum") from any of my kids. They have speech "quirks" (esp. the three-year-old) but not with this one. Not when I need one for my blog... Maybe I'll work on a really cool post involving "luninum"!
- Toast the toast
- Butter the toast to the edges
- Slather on a judicious layer of brown sugar (not too judicious) to the edges
- Sprinkle a very light dusting of cinnamon (that's starting to not look like a word anymore, even though spellcheck sez "okey dokey!")
- Do steps 1-4 quickly & remove your fingers because once the vultures are circling, you could easily lose them (the fingers).
- Make them brush their teeth (you can easily jump to this step, because they have inhaled it so fast that there isn't any point in waiting.)
Just the thing on a frosty winter day. Max would say that the "to the edges" part is just my hang-up. He might be right, but screw him. It's my recipe, and *I* think it's important. Unfortunately, I shared the method with Norah and she can reach the brown sugar. Fortunately, soon there won't be any...
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To the edges is crucial, as is putting the butter on while the toast is still hot.
ReplyDeleteyes! of course! I'm surprised I didn't include it, as I was explicit about that in my explanation to Norah. (She was taking too long to get the butter knife from the drawer and I was nagging about how and why it was so important) Were you watching me last night? ;-)
ReplyDeleteOf course, you realize that there are cinnamon toast snobs that pooh-pooh your simple method and add at at least one extra step.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't know if I'd have the appetite for cinnamon toast if making it meant that I had to look at your greasy rack. To find the cinnamon, bien sur.
Guess what I'm having for breakfast for tomorrow's Treat Day! Yum!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this :)
oh, and btw, we were all watching you last night ;)
ReplyDeletehmmm... glad I was wearing the clean undies...
ReplyDelete@ Albert: nice callback! :-)
Oh lawd, I've been caught out as a Peeping . . . can't be Tom. Tina? Peeping Tina?
ReplyDelete@wyliekat -- of course, when searching my inner annals (yes, there's two Ns there, everyone) for the feminine "Tom" all I could come up with was "Thomasina". As in "Thomasina Tittlemouse" by Beatrix Potter. Yes, I said "Tittlemouse"
ReplyDeleteEveryone now: "hee hee hee"