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Monday, July 25, 2011 at 10:37PM | Seeley deBorn Math. It's all I freaking do.
I did it for 10 hours a day both days this weekend. I survived by eating the last of the beef jerky, baby carrots, and tortilla chips with cream cheese and salsa. During the week, I'm living off of my precooked frozen meals, and tonight I had toast for dinner.
The result is that I'm more than a little hard pressed for blog posts... (Taneasha is playing me a song on the world's smallest violin right now in her completely bare kitchen)
I was going to do a post on how to cut up a mango to best maximize the eatability of it. But it's tough to take pictures of yourself cutting up a mango when you're cutting up a mango.
I know this is really pushing it as "cooking" but someone else will be making dinner here for me next week, so for now, you'll have to do what I'm doing and survive off of toast.
Cinnamon Sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 c sugar
- a jar with a good lid
I've had my cinnamon sugar jar for ... nearly 18 years now. It's a small jar that once held premade pasta sauce. I've had it pretty much since I moved out of my mom's house, and it's travelled back and forth half way across Canada with me. My mom had a similar jar. Same one for as long as I could remember. It moved everywhere with us too, and I'm pretty sure she hid it on the day that I moved out so I couldn't take hers with me.
Cinnamon sugar has always been a bit of a staple for me because of that jar.
It was a fast breakfast, an all purpose snack, and it's what my mom fed us as we were starting to feel better after spending days sick on the couch watching soaps. It's a rare treat when I can get just that right mix of butter and sugar on bread that's toasted just right...
And I know some people try to sprinkle the cinnamon on, and then the sugar, but it doesn't work. There's never that same perfect consistency and homogeneity of spice and sweet. You have to mix them together before hand.
Measure out your cinnamon and sugar and put them in the jar.
Shake.
It's blurry because I'm shaking it. Sure is.
And then...
That perfect sandy colour.
Toast yourself some nice whole grain bread. White bread just seems too... insubstantial for this purpose. I mean, yeah, it's nice and squishy sometimes, but cinnamon has such a strong, spicy, robust flavour that it needs something sturdy under it.
Yes, it's a gratuitous food close up, but I really don't have much to work with here.
Once your butter has melted, sprinkle on just the right amount of cinnamon sugar.
I am so freaking happy with the fluke that is that picture.
It may seem like a big pile o' sugar on toast, but it looks like more than it is, and once you spread it around the sugar starts melting into the warm butter...
It's also great in coffee, handy to have on hand for fancying up cookies of any sort, and can turn plain old biscuits into cinnamon biscuit buns.
But for now, this
with a glass of OJ and a multivitamin, is dinner.
My mom would be so proud of me.
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Reader Comments (3)
I love cinnamon toast! I would run into the kitchen and make me some right now... if only I had cinnamon. Spices must be the next thing on my list, just as soon as I have jars to put them in. Yes, I know you can buy spice racks that come preloaded with all the herbs and spices you'll ever need, but really the only thing those jars of three year old, tasteless stuff are good for is emptying into the garbage and refilling with your own, fresh selections.
On the plus side, three huge boxes arrived from Amazon this week, filled with kitchen stuff, and I've spent far too much time going from one Home Goods to another. Slowly, I'm starting to have a kitchen again, though.
Oh good. You can make me dinner. ;)
I totally agree on the spice jars thing. You're way better off getting small jars at the dollar store and filling them with fresh spices.
Don't forget garam masala! You can totally make cookies with those.
(now, if only I knew how to put a link into comments....)
now what you do is put a very little bit of milk on the plate, poured not on the toast but next to it. wait a minute to let the toast soak it up. cinnamon milk toast is my fav.