Wednesday 8 August 2012

Our 116th slice of toast - PB, dipped in chocolate milk

WHERE HAS SKIPPY GONE!?  Calm your shetland ponies, we acquired some free Sunpat wholegrain crunchy PB, which is delicious, so went for a change.  Skippy lives on.  This new PB was a bit shy and hid behind the bowl.  So very unlike our Skippy.

We chose Yazoo for our chocolate milk.  Chocolate, PB and toast is a wonderful combination, as shown in slice 62 (Reese's pieces) but this didn't quite compare.  The chocolate taste was there, but not significantly enough and in hindsight, we should probably have gone for a thicker grade of chocolate milk such as Frijj.  Still, quite nice.  Different for sure.  But I preferred our 62nd slice.

Our 115th slice of toast - Lime butter

I used to like drawing the cross sectional view of lime's at school.  I have more recently lost my interest in fruit art and prefer to suck on my lime segments with tequila shots.  How far i've come.

This meant mixing some butter in a bowl with the zest and juice of half a lime, followed by splattering the mixture it across the toast.  We used a knife to zest - which was quite dire.  The slice basically tasted like basic buttered bread, but with a tang.  Which we liked yo.  And yes, more green.

Disclaimer: The unused half of the lime was pictured, for presentation purposes.

Our 114th slice of toast - Avocado

I've never seen someone attempt to eat an avocado like a pear, unaware of the large solid stone that lurks inside.  I would love to see it though.  It would be hilarious.  Avocado's are full of monounsaturated fats which is great for your skin and hormone production, amongst many of the general benefits you see labelled about the world.  But most importantly and visibly - it's good for your skin.

We cut ours down the middle, all the way around the stone and twisted the two halves apart.  The last avocado we had was far from ripe and caused discomfort.  This avocado on the other hand was perfect.  It cut well and was easy to bite in to too, almost eliminating any risk of either of the UFS or CSD actions.  Eat this.  And again, some wonderful green

Our 113th slice of toast - Cream cheese & kiwi

A kiwi is technically called a kiwifruit.  This is generally abbreviated to share its name with that of a small flightless bird native only to New Zealand, called the kiwi.  We didn't put the bird on toast.  This isn't to say we wouldn't, should the opportunity be laid down upon our blue towel plates, but we weren't presented with this opportunity so went for the kiwifruit instead.

Kiwifruit has a sharp taste to it.  I once overheard a strange conversation between two campanologists, discussing those who do and those who don't eat kiwifruits with their skins still on.  To eat a kiwifruit alone, both Grace and I prefer to cut it in half and scoop that sharp juicy centre out with a spoon.  We used this same method to apply it on our slice of toast.  The cream cheese mellows the sharp taste quite well, but as a combination I didn't find they were best suited.  Not all bad though.  I like the colour green, for example.