Breakfast with baggage

Facts about avocado toast:

1. It’s tasty.
2. Apparently only Millennials eat it. (and I’m no Millennial. Gen-X, baby. Just like Douglas Coupland.)
3. It has an appalling amount of discussion and furor surrounding it, given that it’s avocado smeared on a piece of toast. From Nigella Lawson being pilloried for offering the recipe in her TV show to a hapless Australian millionaire suggesting that Millennials could afford a house if only they could stop buying so much avocado toast. (see item #2) There have been more headlines about avocado toast than probably any single other breakfast item in the last decade. Even a condominium complex was giving away free avocado toast for a year with the successful purchase of a condo. That made headlines. How, I’m not sure, but feel free to Google away.
4. There is a secret to good avocado toast. Well, I’m sure there are several secrets, but the one that stands out for me comes from Trader Joes in the form of a jar of ‘Everything but the Bagel’ seasoning.

I live in the Trader Joe’s wasteland known as ‘Canada’ and you can buy the seasoning online from Amazon. I guess that some guy goes and clears the shelves at Trader Joes and then puts the jars up on Amazon. Price for a single jar, shipped to me in Canada? $30.

Yeah, all of a sudden it looks like you could buy a house in lieu of daily avocado toast.

But if you have a pal in St. Louis who regularly visits Trader Joes, and who knows you can cram 5 jars of ‘Everything but the Bagel’ seasoning in a fixed-price USPS box, well, then, all of a sudden you can have avocado toast AND make your downpayment.

Super simple to make. The only caveat is making sure you have a decent, ripe, avocado. The joke about ripe avocados:

Cook: Are you ripe?

Avocado: Not yet.

Avocado: Wait.

Avocado: Wait.

Avocado: Wait.

Avocado: Wait.

Avocado: Ok, now I’m ripe.

Cook: Great!! *reaches for a knife*

Avocado: Oh, too late!

Hey, I think it’s funny, mainly because for me it’s totally true.

Regardless, this morning I had perfect avocados.

I had some really nice bread, and it was a perfect warm summer morning.

My coffee was made (saved $5 there, just in case anyone is counting, and not considering the capital cost of the espresso machine and grinder)

Toast. Bit of butter. Avocado and a generous sprinkling of the seasoning. Step back and enjoy the fact that you made, for about $2, what would cost you several times that in a restaurant or cafe.

Amazing toast (my goodness it was good) Good coffee. On a shoestring budget. Best part of making food at home – how cheap it is and how, with a bit of practice, you can make stuff that is as good or better than what you might get eating out.

Just bring the Everything sprinkles.