Do you toast your bread?

For me it is all about flavors and textures. Contrasting and complimentary textures and flavors is everything to a sandwich is what knocks it out of the park and of course is a matter of personal preferences. Who can pass up a fluffy white bread Peanut Butter and Jelly and at the same time a toasted PBJ then dipped in milk? Same can be said for a pan fried Grilled Cheese on white bread vs a Grilled on the Grill Grilled Cheese on home sliced sour dough bread. Yum! All about flavors and textures!

A turkey sandwich becomes gourmet when you dress it up on a crunchy fresh baked French roll with garden fresh sliced tomatoes, lettuce and red onion.

Veggies are similarly subject to what wets your whistle. Steamed, blanched, roasted or baked….fresh veggies are awesome any way you cook them as long as you don’t pooch them when cooking them.

For the record peeled potatoes is like driving a ‘68 Camaro without car doors. Don’t waste your time peeling them bad boys ever.

I usually make Cuban-style or French Baguettes. or fat loaves of sourdough. The sourdough looks like mountain bread. It’s easier to make bread than go into town all the time. I like all my bread warmed. I don’t necessarily toast it for sandwiches, unless it’s a Ruben or BLT, then I sit it in a hot saute pan with butter, chicken fat or bacon drippings. I don’t own a toaster.

I like to make a kind of pizza with the Cuban bread. The baguettes are used mostly at breakfast, warmed in the microwave for a few seconds so when at the table the butter melts into them. Lunch is usually soup or stew, salad, and Cuban or French bread and butter. I always have bread with dinner. Usually the bread is fresh or fresh frozen, but always warm and wrapped in a towel and placed in a basket. I do most of my baking and cooking for the week on Sundays. It’s a routine I enjoy. Pretty much everyone around here does the same. There are no food stores nearby.

I always braise my vegetables in butter in a hot saute pan or wok. It’s faster, tastes better and is more nutritious. I always eat the potato skins.

I like bread toasted and with the butter melty, but some bread I am happy to have cold, for example French or Italian bread.

I like mac and cheese baked rather than the liquidy kind. I like the veggies soft rather than crisp, but not too soft. Things like asparagus, I don’t want them limp, I want them soft but not to a mush.

Carrots I like them soft but again, not to a mush.

I do eat skin on the baked potato. For me, it’s more now an issue of whether or not I have the appetite.

I like my food well cooked most of the time. Definitely toast the bread for a sandwich, I need a good balance between the soft fillings and toasty outside.
Pizza lightly browned too. No preference for oven or stovetop mac and cheese, I love both lol.
I don’t really eat vegetables.
Skin on the potato is alright, but I prefer it off.

I tend to prefer most foods slightly undercooked. I’ll order steak rare (or even blue) and hash browns extra light. I like lumpy mashed potatoes and somewhat crunchy vegetables.

Most of the time, I don’t toast my bread, unless the sandwich filing itself is pretty mushy, like tuna salad.

If you have a sandwich with sandwich bread, do you toast it? Sometimes

Does it matter what type of sandwich? Yes

Do you rarely eat sandwich bread and prefer Italian or French, or some other bread with a nice crust? No, I like Italian and French bread that is baked properly, but I also eat “sandwich bread”.

If you like it toasted, do you also like most things browned like cheese on a pizza? Not most, no. It depends.

Baked mac and cheese better than stove top? Yes

What about veggies? Do you boil green beans until they are soft? No
Carrots? I prefer raw carrots, generally.
Or, do you like them still firm, maybe sautéed? Sure. It depends. Vegetables can be a joy or a horror, depending on whether they are fresh, and how skillfully they are cooked.

Do you eat the skin on a baked potato? Often, at least some of it, if it’s not burned.

But yes, in general I tend to like crispy things, though it depends.