How To Bake
This was a different experience. You melted butter in a hot pan in the oven, then you took the hot pan, a skillet or frying pan, and poured a batter into pan. Finally, you added fruit and maybe a sweetener on top of the batter and stuck the pan back in the oven. The fruit was suspended in the top layer of the batter but as the cake rose, the fruit fell through the batter and settled on the bottom. Neat. It was a layer of fruit in a slurry on the bottom with crusty, not-too-sweet cake on top. It's a fun dessert to make and simple.
Especially if you are using a denser bread or thicker slices of bread, it can be hard to make the cheese ooey, gooey. The bread gets dark before the cheese gets gooey. A lower heat works better than a higher heat; it takes time for the heat to soak through the bread and melt the cheese and the lower heat is easier on the bread.
To trap the heat and speed the melting, I put a lid over the sandwich. I don't leave the lid over the sandwich for the entire cooking time. Because the lid traps steam, which I don't want, I take the lid off as soon as the cheese starts to melt and finish the cooking without the lid.
When I was younger, my dad would pack jam and cheese sandwiches for camping and fishing trips. They might not have been the most pristine sandwiches, but they kept well. Later in life, I was introduced to the Monte Cristo sandwich–still the same jam and cheese, but these had ham and mustard added in and were either grilled or fried. It was an upgrade to the classic grilled cheese sandwich I never knew I needed.
If you want a fun breakfast, choose a fun bread machine mix, make a fun bread, and turn it into French bread sticks. For even more fun, dip them in your favorite syrup--just like dipping French fries in your favorite sauce.
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This article will tell you two ways to make French toast sticks. As a bonus, learn how to make Apple Pie French Toast Sticks from a bread mix.
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These are the best PB&J's on the planet!
Let me explain why these grilled PB&J's are such a big deal.
First, they're grilled. See it's all gooey and melty. It's warm. See the melted peanut butter working down the side. Like a grilled, melty cheese sandwich is better, so is a grilled PB&J.
Second, it's the crunchy sugary coating on both sides.
Cy always has fresh bread at home. He makes it almost every week. It’s just he and his wife at home. They eat a little and the rest goes in the freezer. He slices it, slips wax paper squares between the slices, tags it so that he knows what he’s got, and then freezes it. If he wants sunflower bread for breakfast, he digs a slice out of the freezer and toasts it. The toaster freshens it.