Toast

William-Sonoma was one of my favorite stops at the mall. I loved to look at all the wonderful cooking stuff; cake pans in every shape you can think of, mixers in bright red, flavored oils and the best knives in town. I am NOT by any stretch of the imagination a gourmet cook, but I sure never thought I needed a cooking 101 class for making toast.
Toast is a no brainer, right. Wrong!
For some reason cooking just doesn't work the same way here. Why? I have no earthly idea. The only thing I do know is that irregular current and massive power surges can cause you to loose your electrical appliances in a heartbeat. That's why I could never bring myself to buy a toaster. It seems silly. But, we have replaced coffee pots, coffee grinders and hand mixers when they got zapped just being plugged in long enough to use them for a few minutes.

Maddie and Parker wanted to know why we never had peanut butter toast anymore or waffles? So, like any good grandma, my mom gave us a toaster and waffle maker for Christmas.

Now take a good look at the outlet in the picture....you will notice that it is marked "EDH or Delco".
Why, you might ask?
Because these plugs only work when we have city power or the generator is going. You will have to use another plug in order to have power. Remember, you will have to think twice about using it since you will be draining the inverter, which may leave you without a fan at night which can prove costly with the number of mosquitoes we have here in Haiti....which could lead to malaria and we all know "Malaria Sucks" (we have the t-shirt to prove it)!

Back to the toast....

It had been so long since I made toast, I ended up burning the first few batches, getting them stuck in the toaster. I went to make round number four of toast and couldn't get the toast to go down because the toaster was so hot. So, with the help of John, the toast expert, he turned it up to five pushed the toast down and than tuned it down to two so I could successfully cook toast in our new toaster with out going through a whole loaf of bread.

I am happy to report day two of peanut butter toast went off with out a hitch.