Toast

February 6, 2025 1:22 PM

Some time last week, I bought a sour dough round from Aldi. I don't eat a lot of bread, but I figured it's good to switch up my grains. So here are three different dishes that I made with this bread.

First, a breakfast. There's this really expensive cafe that makes a delicious smoked salmon toast, but it costs over $16 and I'm not about that life anymore. So I'm making my own for an eighth of the price.

I actually really like toast, and I should make more of it. Smoked salmon is a bit bougie, but I also like hummus or an avocado spread on toast!

Next I have a chicken salad. I really just wanted to use up some relish because I bought some to make a hamburger sauce a while back, and now I kind of regret it. The hamburger sauce was just okay, and now I have a jar of relish that I don't know what to do with.

I've put relish in tuna salad a bunch of times in the past, but I had never actually tried making chicken salad before. I tend to like tuna salad better, but for the sake of variety I decided to try to make a chicken salad. What I probably should have done was follow a recipe, but I decided to just wing it and throw stuff together! I added mayonnaise, sweet onions, green onions, dijon mustard, relish, cranberries, poppyseeds, and even some honey roasted peanuts.

The end result was...eh. It wasn't awful, but I didn't really have a desire to keep eating it. I'm really not good at the whole "throwing things together" thing. But I did finish all of it over the course of a few more breakfasts because I am not wasting food.

And finally, I was able to use up the rest of my jar of pizza sauce by making some pizza melts! When I was younger, my dad would sometimes toast some sliced bread with pizza sauce and cheese and give that to me as an after school snack. I liked it at the time, though it didn't really sound quite as appealing to me now. Honestly, a pizza sandwich is the type of thing that barely sounds like a recipe to me.

But oh my god, this sandwich I made last week was SO GOOD. The herb parmesan butter really takes it over the top. The first one I made had mozzarella since that's your typical cheese for a pizza, but I ran out of that and tried taco cheese and pepperjack as well and they both still tasted great. Now I'm never going to have trouble finishing leftover pizza sauce.