Perhaps you’re right Ashes[sup]2[/sup]. Maybe I should get a color wheel for effect instead. I have a light in my hot tub but I never turn it on. I even have three different covers for the light: green, red and amber. The red one looked real spooky. Or maybe I should just be content with the “sparks” ACBG makes when we’re in the hot tub. 
The thing is, Kallessa, if your french toast is soggy you’ve been making it wrong. The trick is to use thick slices of homemade bread and leave them out on th counter overnight so they get nice and stale. That way, they’ll soak up the custard stuff without going limp and when you cook 'em up they’ll be crusty on the outside and creamy on the inside.
Sheesh. I can’t believe I’m playing along in a foodie thread.
Swampy, sparks in a hottub are contraindicated. Well, now that I think of it, it might actually be safer to have sparks in a hottub, than, say, a pile of leaves. OK, carry on.
Maybe, FCM, you could use the chandelier to test the efficacy of your dishwasher? Or am I the only person who remembers that commercial? It fascinated me. They should make chandelier washers like that!
I mean, they make quesidilla makers…so why not?
I forgot to talk about dinner last night. It’s even kinda sorta on the sammich topic too. I made some homemade chicken noodle soup. I made grilled cheese sammiches to go along with the soup. Grilled cheese sammiches and chicken noodle soup. With milk to drink. MMMMMMMMMM…
I would never do that! No, really, I would never do that.
No, I’m making disparaging remarks about your faaaabulous-ness. 
You know I’m only playing. I have no doubt your garage puts Christopher Lowell to shame.
No, no, no swampy , grilled cheese goes with tomato soup! Everyone knows that.
Unfortunately for me, I watched something when I was a kid that totally turned me off the concept of tomato soup. So my grilled cheese sandwiches are always friendless. Poor, lonely grilled cheese.
Some of my favorite sandwiches are ones I got from the cafeterias in college. Grilled ham & cheese - plenty of grease. And then when I was a sophomore, they built a new dining hall. They closed down the dining hall in my dorm once that was up - and a couple months later someone fell on top of the roof of the dining hall in my dorm when they were trying to move from one dorm room to another by climbing out their window and through the next, but that has nothing to do with sandwiches, so we won’t go any further with that. Anyway, the new dining hall looked like a ski lodge - it really did! They had good spaghetti & meatballs, but what I loved was a sandwich that was chopped chicken that was grilled with broccoli & then had melted cheese and was in a sub roll. I think there were more veggies too - maybe onions and/or peppers. It’s been so long now - I don’t remember it exactly - but it was good.
Susan
Oooh! I’m making homemade chicken noodle soup tonight for dinner. I don’t think we’ll have grilled cheese though. I figure some good biscuits or rolls will go nicely with the soup.
On the weather front, they’re threatening us with snow again, but Mother Nature has delayed until mid-morning to late-afternoon. I think only those people up north will see anything worth talking about.
…and Ex, I always knew you were a closet cook. Trying to talk all rough and grumbly when underneath that exterior you’re just a big softie. 
Would you believe I painted my garage in soft gray with burgundy trim on the wood work on purpose? That was at the same time I decided that all of my exterior doors just had to be burgundy. Well, the door from the garage into the kitchen was painted, which meant I had to paint the garage. With me it’s all or nuttin’ I tell ya.
s_f grilled cheese sammiches go with all kinds of soup. They are a natural combo. And milk. A grilled cheese sammich, soup and a glass of milk is the wholesomest of all wholesome things. Everybody knows that.
And 'nanner sammiches with lots of mayo are wunnerful! So There! 
That ain’t aimed at s_f. It’s just a general statement.
I hope it doesn’t hurt your respect for me; but I prefer iced tea with my grilled cheese sammiches. (I first typed “sweet tea” for the benefit of non-Southerners but then it was just too redundant for me to leave in place.)
Oh… you mean that common Southern table wine, ‘Swee’tea’?
Kythereia’s rules:
Pancakes–a dab of butter and real Canadian maple syrup. Preferably with a side of bacon and hashbrowns.
Waffles–corn syrup or jam. Vanilla ice cream is a big treat.
Grilled cheese–crispy, light, cheese melted all the way through, served with milk.
Side note: am I the only one who finds Nutella revolting?
Bolding mine…I too find it revolting. It’s overly sweet and DOES NOT belong on bread. You might as well spread canned or jarred frosting on bread. Blech!
What is it with all you milk drinkers? I find it revolting too. Oh, I’ll have milk in my cereal (when I eat it), I make oatmeal and cream of wheat with milk instead of water, however; to drink a glass of plain white milk makes me gag. My like of milk was destroyed while in grade school…we had a teacher that forced us to drink the wam, nasty milk before we could leave the lunchroom. Since then, I have hated, no…LOATHED milk. I’m scarred for life…
I’m sorry, are you saying that would be a bad thing? Now, I’ve never done it, but I think chocolate frosting on bread would probably be yummy.
I love Nutella (just discovered it about a year ago) but I can see that the taste of hazelnut might not be one that everyone is going to like.
I hate drinking milk. Blech. It’s fine in cooking, but bad to drink.
Of course nutella is too sweet on its own. It needs to be paired with peanut butter and spread on toast. Or diluted with heavy cream and used as a cake frosting.
I think I want french toast for lunch.
Nutella and it’s inventor should both be sent to the ninth level of hell.
I, like Taters, don’t drink milk either. My end with milk came early one morning. I was meeting my uncle for a fishing trip and brought doughnuts with me. I grabbed his mostly empty milk jug from the fridge, took a bite of my DN (Boston Creme, if you must know) and drank directly from the jug, figuring to finish it all in one fell swoop. Despite being in the fridge, the milk was oddly warm and . . . soured. Really soured. Instant projectile vomit-type soured milk. Chunks in the milk type of soured milk. It was less than pleasant. In fact it was so much less than pleasant it almost qualifies as paradigm changing.
For many, many, years it was my rule of thumb not to consume anything that was within a 5 mile radius of my uncle’s house, especially if it had an expiration date.
All that suspense, and it wasn’t even swampbear in a cheerleader outfit. 
But you really should use peanut butter instead of mayo with your banana sandwiches. That doesn’t just go for swampy. All of you, you hear? I’ll give you guys a few minutes, and when I come back, I don’t want to see mayo and bananas combined in the same dish, ever again.
An unproduced scenario for Veggie Tales.
Chocolate milk, that’s the ticket. Soup, grilled cheese and Nestle’s chocolate milk, one of the “so close to perfect” meals that the gods themselves throw away their ambrosia when it’s being served. Even when the soup isn’t homemade.
As much as I do like regular old white milk, there are times when the meal seems to monochrome. For example, I never drink milk with my tuna sandwiches, the white bread, white tuna, white mayo and white milk are just too much (and if it’s on a white plate. even worse). But chocolate milk–ah, that introduces a warm contrasting color which enables the different shades of white to revel in their subtle complexities.
Plus it tastes yummy.
I’m just waiting to see the picture of him in platforms & rainbow suspenders. And just to give y’all more incentive to go to SkipMagic’s board - I’ve joined too! In case you’re looking for me - my supersecret identity is sunfastrose.
And for cooking - I’ve put together a spreadsheet that I’m going to be using to keep track of what recipes I cook this year - nothing hugely elaborate, just a month by month tracking, including things like if I’ve made it before or not, how I rate it, will I repeat it, cooking method, etc. Right now I am using it for planning - and I have 19 recipes planned for this month so far, the majority of which are new. Yay me!
FYI - today’s lunch was a turkey sub. Tonight’s dinner is a new recipe - Chipotle Macaroni & Cheese.
Susan
Except for the blonde pigtails (I’m much too dark complected to pull off blonde) it is a reasonable facsimile. After all I am big and hairy.
Now, as to peanut butter and nanner sammiches. They are fine. I like me some peanut butter and nanner sammiches. However, nanner sammiches with lots of mayo and tater chips for added crunch are heaven on earth. So, nanners and mayo shall remain. Understand young man? Good! Glad that’s settled.
Grilled cheese sammiches and iced tea are a fine fine combo, so not to worry. Know what else is good? Dipping grilled cheese sammiches in an ice cold glass full of Coke or Pepsi. MMMMMMMMM…
I had me a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup, a grilled cheese sammich and a glass of milk for lunch today. Tonight I’m having chicken noodle soup again, cept I think I’ll take Taters’ suggestion and have some rolls with it. They won’t be homemade but they are frozen rolls that take 30 minutes to thaw out and rise up then get popped in the oven for about 20 minutes, I think. They’re good. Or maybe I could make some buttermilk biscuits. I have buttermilk in the fridge. Now I have a major decision to make. Oh the agony!
Friar Ted BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If they’d make that Veggie Tales I’d buy it.