1. Warm, buttery croissant with creme Chantilly and fruits
2. Warm, crusty baguette with generous amounts of creamy, salted butter
"I do like a little bit of butter to my bread."
~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
3. Crispy streaky bacon with American-styled hash browns (grated potatoes, grilled on a hot plate, full of juices and rendered fat from previously grilled burgers, pork sausages and the aforementioned bacon), somewhat similar to the Jewish potato latkes and German rosti and thick-cut juicy ripe tomatoes, tossed with a little olive oil, salt, sugar, freshly crushed black pepper and then flash-grilled, just to bring out the flavours in a contrast of textures and caramelisation.
Yum...
Definition:
1. Creme Chantilly: sweetened whipped cream.
- some use icing sugar, some use fine granulated sugar with fresh cream, I use vanilla sugar.
2. Baguette: a long, crusty, white loaf originated from France, hence the popular term, "French Loaf".
Note: Good wheat-flour bread (lean bread, meaning, low amounts of sugar and fat) makes a hollow sound when tapped, preferably with a hard crust. Europeans golden brown is the Asian definition of "nearly burnt" and Asians tend to like a softer crusted bread, with less crumb. Although, I may generalise, the trends are changing.
"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!"Personally, I love hard, crusty bread, just slightly warmed up, with either butter or some olive oil, or even plain! Tough and chewy. It just gives more character to bread than a nondescript, silent *cut* when we bite.
~James Beard
I LOVE bread.
"All sorrows are less with bread."
~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
"Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree."But, the most challenging bread I've ever had to eat, was pumpernickel.
~Elizabeth Russell
Try it oneday, if you haven't. Let me know how you feel about it. :)
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