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brooksmosesThe five-year-old wanted cheese toast for lunch, since I was having some.
V: I want jam on it!
Me: Jam? On cheese toast? I'm very dubious about this.
V: Yes!
V pokes around in the fridge, pulls out one of the little sample-size jars from last year's advent-calendar of jam.
V: This one! Lemony-limey jam!
Me: Hmm.
V runs off to wait for cheese toast to be done.
I look at the jam, which is in fact "apricot-bergamot", and poke around in the fridge and also fetch out the "mango-peach-lime" and the "lemon-yuzu" jams.
V comes back in when the cheese toast is ready.
V: Why are there three jams out?
Me: Because you said you wanted lemony-limey, and this is apricot bergamot, so I got out the mango-peach-lime and this one is lemon-yuzu.
V: Oh. Can I try a taste?
I get out a dab of the apricot-bergamot, and put it on the corner of the cheese toast.
V: No, I didn't want it on the bread! Just a taste by itself!
V nonetheless eats the corner of the cheese toast.
V: Not that one.
I get out a spoon, and give her a dab of the mango-peach-lime. She dips a finger in it, and tastes it.
V: Yum! That one! But on the back of the bread.
Me: On the back? That will be hard to hold without getting your fingers messy.
V: No it won't. I'll hold the cheese on the bottom. Easy-peasy!
I spread the mango-peach-lime jam on the back of the bread.
V hands me the spoon, and helpfully says, "I didn't lick it."
V takes the double-sided toast, and eats half of it ferociously, and slows down and stops about halfway through.
V, sadly: I actually don't like this very much.
Me: I could peel off the cheese.
I peel off the cheese from a bit, and hand it to her.
V, trying it: I think I just don't like this jam.
Me, thinking to myself: This is why I shouldn't have spread jam on the whole piece of toast at once.
...time passes, inevitable things happen...
Me, thinking to myself: Hm. Actually, this cheese toast with apricot jam is pretty tasty....
V: I want jam on it!
Me: Jam? On cheese toast? I'm very dubious about this.
V: Yes!
V pokes around in the fridge, pulls out one of the little sample-size jars from last year's advent-calendar of jam.
V: This one! Lemony-limey jam!
Me: Hmm.
V runs off to wait for cheese toast to be done.
I look at the jam, which is in fact "apricot-bergamot", and poke around in the fridge and also fetch out the "mango-peach-lime" and the "lemon-yuzu" jams.
V comes back in when the cheese toast is ready.
V: Why are there three jams out?
Me: Because you said you wanted lemony-limey, and this is apricot bergamot, so I got out the mango-peach-lime and this one is lemon-yuzu.
V: Oh. Can I try a taste?
I get out a dab of the apricot-bergamot, and put it on the corner of the cheese toast.
V: No, I didn't want it on the bread! Just a taste by itself!
V nonetheless eats the corner of the cheese toast.
V: Not that one.
I get out a spoon, and give her a dab of the mango-peach-lime. She dips a finger in it, and tastes it.
V: Yum! That one! But on the back of the bread.
Me: On the back? That will be hard to hold without getting your fingers messy.
V: No it won't. I'll hold the cheese on the bottom. Easy-peasy!
I spread the mango-peach-lime jam on the back of the bread.
V hands me the spoon, and helpfully says, "I didn't lick it."
V takes the double-sided toast, and eats half of it ferociously, and slows down and stops about halfway through.
V, sadly: I actually don't like this very much.
Me: I could peel off the cheese.
I peel off the cheese from a bit, and hand it to her.
V, trying it: I think I just don't like this jam.
Me, thinking to myself: This is why I shouldn't have spread jam on the whole piece of toast at once.
...time passes, inevitable things happen...
Me, thinking to myself: Hm. Actually, this cheese toast with apricot jam is pretty tasty....
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Date: 2021-10-01 06:17 am (UTC)I am amused at your cheese-and-jelly sandwich story. As to the peanut butter: A friend on Discord that I shared this with reports that they've made grilled PB&J before and they're delicious.
My experience with peanut butter is that it does melt but indeed not in a way that changes the flavor; it just melts the parts of the peanut oils that have solidified so that it becomes much more gooey and runny. (This comes from experience microwaving peanut-butter jars with contents that are too solid and firm to spread, which tends to happen to me with the last half of the peanut butter in a jar of the "stir in the separated oil before using" variety. Just enough microwaving to get it a bit warm works wonders.)
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Date: 2021-10-06 10:15 pm (UTC)I've made grilled peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, but I just wanted the bread to be crunchy and have a habit of burning toasted sandwiches, so the peanut butter didn't really get more than warm.
I did use your microwave method on the dregs of a jar of peanut butter recently, and am much obliged for the tip. It did work just perfectly.
P.
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Date: 2021-10-09 08:33 am (UTC)