Tell me about your spread (on bread, that is)

[Emilio Lizardo]

What do you put on your toast? Like many people, I started with peanut butter. After a while I switched to almond butter, which I found a little tastier. Lately, though, I've been eating pesto on toast, which my wife thinks is strange and unusual. Would anyone else like to share their favorite spreads?

[One And Only Wanderers]

I like HP sauce on toast, not sure if that brand is common in the states. Honey is good too.

[don't ask]

There are really only a few things in total that I have on toast:

Vegemite
Mashed banana
Mashed tuna and chili sauce

and

Baked beans
Eggs

[Flutterby]

On toast?

Well, some of my favourites are PB and honey, just honey (of a variety of types.. I like to try different ones.. lately I found some at the farmer's market that are mixed with different things so I have a small container of saskatoon flavoured honey in the cupboard), Grandma's jelly, raspberry jam.. and sometimes I put cream cheese on it or stick thin slices of cheese between two (if you do it when the toast is warm it melts just a little).

As a kid I'd sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on buttered toast. Not anymore though, I don't eat sweets as much as I did.

Oh, not really spread but I also like to put my scrambled eggs on top of the slice of toast and eat it that way or make bacon sandwiches.

[carnivorousplant]

Pesto is good.
I like the mixture for stuffed mushrooms. Ricotta, spinach, musrooms and garlic.

[muldoonthief]

I like Dijon mustard, sardines, and hot pepper rings.

[Drain Bead]

Slow-scrambled eggs on toast is divine, but so bad for you that I only do it a few times a year.

I generally put Brummel & Brown spread or Laughing Cow cheese on toast if I'm trying to eat right, or a nice artisan butter on there if I'm not.

[Annie-Xmas]

Real Butter. And maybe some jelly

[carnivorousplant]

Mrs. Plant has some chocolate peanut butter, but it makes me feel as though I were twelve.

[Missy2U]

Either real butter, or peanut butter. Smooth. I hate that chunky stuff.

[Spoons]

Marmalade for me. If I have the time, which I don't always, breakfast is invariably toast and marmalade, and coffee.

[Lanzy]

Strawberry and Rhubard Jam from Harry & David's.

[Freudian Slit]

Margarine or cream cheese.

[Kyla]

PB! A store in my town recently started selling it, too, possibly just for me. I no longer need to go to the next town over just to get my PB. Yay!

I also like lyutenitsa, a Bulgarian spread made of tomatoes and spicy peppers. Sprinkle a bit of cirene (like feta, but sharper) on top...delicious. My host mom makes the BEST homemade lyutenitsa, too, so much better than the store bought stuff. I'm visiting her this weekend, too. She always gives me homemade canned goodies when I go to visit, if I'm lucky I'll coming home with some delicious homemade lyutenitsa.

[Colophon]

Originally Posted by Drain Bead

Slow-scrambled eggs on toast is divine, but so bad for you that I only do it a few times a year.

How the heck is scrambled eggs on toast bad for you? Unless you're putting a ton of butter into it it's a lot healthier than the crap that many people eat for breakfast! I have scrambled eggs maybe every other weekend.

For general toast purposes, it has to be butter and Marmite. I could actually live on hot Marmitey buttered toast and steaming mugs of Yorkshire Tea for days at a time. In fact I have done when I've been feeling poorly and/or lazy.

[cochrane]

Diabetic and trying to watch my weight, so:

Promise spread - no fat, 5 calories a serving.

Smucker's sugar free preserves - 5 g. carbs, 10 calories a serving

Really not all that bad, and I keep telling myself I'll live longer.

[elbows]

Toast the bread till nice and dark,

spread with butter,

cover with shredded (small shred) hard cheese (any flavour will do),

sprinkle liberally with sesame seeds.

I first had it in Java where your breakfast is usually included with your room.
I immediately became hopelessly addicted to it.
It is extremely yum.

Great, now I'm hungry.

[Drain Bead]

Originally Posted by Colophon

How the heck is scrambled eggs on toast bad for you? Unless you're putting a ton of butter into it it's a lot healthier than the crap that many people eat for breakfast! I have scrambled eggs maybe every other weekend.

Slow scrambled eggs starts out with a shit-ton of butter, and then you keep adding cubes of cold butter as it cooks. It ends up being the consistency of a ruined hollandaise and is absolutely divine, but I really can't handle the two tablespoons of butter in one meal very often.

[Zebra]

Nutella!

[overlyverbose]

Originally Posted by Zebra

Nutella!

Seconded!

Also, peanut butter, jam, pesto, cheese, cottage cheese, eggplant pickle, sweet & spicy lime pickle, chutney of any type, butter, eggs... Hmmm. There's not a whole lot I won't put on toast.

[Tamryne]

Eurocrem

Unsalted butter and my mother's preserves (strawberry, blueberry or fig depending on the season)

Cream cheese, red onion and lox

Not a big fan of eggs on toast, surprisingly. I love eggs and toast, but not eggs on toast. The way the yolk mixes with the crunchy bread is disgusting.

[MissTake]

Butter, followed by a decent jelly. I'm not really a jam person, don't like the little seed from raspberries or strawberries. I have some homemade apple jelly that is fabulous.

I still love me some "cimmamum" toast. It was my stay-at-home-sick treat from my mom, and it still is a comfort food.

Without butter, I love PBnJ on toast. My daughter butters then peanut butters toast. Blech.

BLT's must be made on toast.

If I fry the bread, then I'll put a savory type spread, but not if I have toasted it.

[Millit the Frail]

Originally Posted by Tamryne

Not a big fan of eggs on toast, surprisingly. I love eggs and toast, but not eggs on toast. The way the yolk mixes with the crunchy bread is disgusting.

Ahhh! That's the best part! I only eat eggs one way--over-easy, with toast to dip in the runny yolk. Yum.

But my favorite is fruit preserves. Raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, peach....ooooh. Yummy.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Price's pimiento cheese, if I've got it. Cream cheese with chopped green olives. Or just plain butter, with or without the "only fruit" spread. The only fruit spread doesn't have added sugar, it's just pureed fruit. I can't stand "jelly" that has artificial sweetener in it, it just doesn't taste right to me, and I'm sensitive to some artificial sweeteners.

[Cunctator]

Vegemite

[Surok]

Cheese spread with ground black pepper or chili flakes

Butter and Marmite (only on toasted white bread)

Spicy sundried tomato paste

[cactus waltz]

I have tried pesto but didn't find it to fit sandwiches that well, especially compared to olive paste.

As for spread, I like my sandwich with hummus (with raw vegetables on top).

[CairoCarol]

Another vote for pesto. Or just good butter.

Also yum: cream cheese topped with hot pepper jelly.