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french toast storm
Dec. 19th, 2008 11:47 amWe were supposed to have a french toast storm today. That's the kind where all the local news media talk about how bad it's going to be for two days ahead of time, so people go out and buy all the bread, eggs, milk, and toilet paper in the stores. Then they close the schools and everybody is supposed to stay home and make french toast while they plow the roads.
I figured that if I was going to make french toast, it was going to be really good french toast, with eggnog. About 10 years ago, Ceredwyn introduced me to Silk Nog. (She put it in her coffee. This was before Starbucks made the whole world familiar with coffee drinks that were largely milk and syrup.) It smelled like a wonderful idea, though I still can't drink coffee. I didn't drink soymilk at the time, and I still had no interest in dairy eggnog, but I started buying Silk Nog for the 6 weeks every year it turned up in stores. I'm not sure of it as a beverage, but it's really a lovely ingredient for french toast, porridge, cake, pumpkin soup (in moderation), and for transforming mediocre tea into good chai.
Yesterday morning, I returned library books and failed to find any kind of soymilk eggnog in either supermarket near my apartment. This was frustrating, but I was going to Central Square in the afternoon. Surely they would have some at Harvest? I brought my backpack. I found 18 different kinds of soymilk at Harvest, not counting the little juiceboxes. Also almond milk and rice milk. None of them were eggnog. So I went down Prospect Street to try the Whole Foods, where I bought 3 quarts, to make it worth the trip. (And 2 bags of vegan chocolate chips, which are amazingly hard to find.) I can remember thinking of 7 pounds as not being very heavy. But the bus was slow and crowded, and it ended up being quite a strain.
By the time I got home, I realized how unlikely I was to leave the apartment again once I went inside. So I had to go into the Stop & Shop to get eggs. (It would have been silly to get another pound of something breakable and easy to find when I was far from home.) This is the Stop & Shop absurdly close to where I live. They don't have Silk Nog in the refrigerator with their 4 other kinds of Silk products. Nor do they have a vacuum-packed version on the shelf with their other kinds of soymilk. They have it in the refrigerator with their *dairy* eggnogs. Between the milk and the eggs. Where I missed it 3 times. *sigh*
It hasn't started snowing yet. Maybe I'll make some french toast anyhow.
I figured that if I was going to make french toast, it was going to be really good french toast, with eggnog. About 10 years ago, Ceredwyn introduced me to Silk Nog. (She put it in her coffee. This was before Starbucks made the whole world familiar with coffee drinks that were largely milk and syrup.) It smelled like a wonderful idea, though I still can't drink coffee. I didn't drink soymilk at the time, and I still had no interest in dairy eggnog, but I started buying Silk Nog for the 6 weeks every year it turned up in stores. I'm not sure of it as a beverage, but it's really a lovely ingredient for french toast, porridge, cake, pumpkin soup (in moderation), and for transforming mediocre tea into good chai.
Yesterday morning, I returned library books and failed to find any kind of soymilk eggnog in either supermarket near my apartment. This was frustrating, but I was going to Central Square in the afternoon. Surely they would have some at Harvest? I brought my backpack. I found 18 different kinds of soymilk at Harvest, not counting the little juiceboxes. Also almond milk and rice milk. None of them were eggnog. So I went down Prospect Street to try the Whole Foods, where I bought 3 quarts, to make it worth the trip. (And 2 bags of vegan chocolate chips, which are amazingly hard to find.) I can remember thinking of 7 pounds as not being very heavy. But the bus was slow and crowded, and it ended up being quite a strain.
By the time I got home, I realized how unlikely I was to leave the apartment again once I went inside. So I had to go into the Stop & Shop to get eggs. (It would have been silly to get another pound of something breakable and easy to find when I was far from home.) This is the Stop & Shop absurdly close to where I live. They don't have Silk Nog in the refrigerator with their 4 other kinds of Silk products. Nor do they have a vacuum-packed version on the shelf with their other kinds of soymilk. They have it in the refrigerator with their *dairy* eggnogs. Between the milk and the eggs. Where I missed it 3 times. *sigh*
It hasn't started snowing yet. Maybe I'll make some french toast anyhow.
