Snow

Everyone rushes out to buy bread, eggs and milk because french toast is awesome.

Amen.

Why was this egg/milk/bread correlation never so obvious to me?


(I LOVE me some french toast... had some yesterday actually. )

[Robin Garr]

Why was this egg/milk/bread correlation never so obvious to me?

Just guessing here, but a pre-snow Kroger run implies Wonder Bread or equivalent, and what good chef would even think about making French toast out of something like that?

You would think they would remember last year, but they all act like they have never seen it before!

As a native Louisvillian who's lived here most of my life but who's also lived in NYC, where it snows a lot, and in Southern California, where it doesn't snow at all, I think I understand this:

Snow doesn't happen often enough here for us to get used to it. Most snows are minor, but the even more rare BIG snows or ice storms scare the bejeezus out of us, and that's what we remember.

I am told the same happens in Southern California in the rain is that true. I freind tells my that when it rain people start driving into on another.

If we really had to stock up for an extended peroid what would you horde? Mine would be Jackson's coffee,Hereford steaks from Fresh Market, & dark chocolate anything.

[Robin Garr]

am told the same happens in Southern California in the rain is that true. I freind tells my that when it rain people start driving into on another.

YES!!

Well ... a slight exaggeration, but not much. LAX has an almost arid climate, and it rarely rains all summer or fall. When you get the first rain of autumn, it turns six months' worth of accumulated road oil into a slurry as slippery as ice. It IS scary - and I remember the first time I encountered it, in West LA between the UCLA campus and Beverly Glen ... I said to myself, "Self, you need to get to a grocery."

If we really had to stock up for an extended peroid what would you horde? Mine would be Jackson's coffee,Hereford steaks from Fresh Market, & dark chocolate anything.

Bourbon, BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout, various cheeses from various markets around here, stuff so I can bake bread and the like.

Beyond bread, eggs and milk, how do people do their french toast?

Why was this egg/milk/bread correlation never so obvious to me?

Just guessing here, but a pre-snow Kroger run implies Wonder Bread or equivalent, and what good chef would even think about making French toast out of something like that?

ooooh. burn.

touche.

Actually, left over bread my lady baked a few days ago, free range eggs and organic milk (I seriously think that's a first for all three for me - at home).


I left the smoked ice cream off... this time.

Beyond bread, eggs and milk, how do people do their french toast?

Generally speaking...
If i have it available, I usually use heavy cream instead of milk, and fortify it with some sort of booze. (bourbon preferably), vanilla bean, fresh grated cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and orange zest. (and occasionally a pinch of juniper).

Grade A maple to finish - if planning ahead... infused with whatever strikes me (or rather whatever was already infusing in the maple) - perhaps bourbon barrel staves.

I tend to shy from 'crustier' types of bread for french toast.
I always remember (i think it was) Jacques Pepin talking about how you should always make french toast or croutons with the left over bread from the day before...

I'm quite fond of using brioche, pain au levain, challah, or Portuguese sweet bread for french toast (depending on your personal tastes regarding egginess, butteriness, sourness and sweetness. Challah usually meets in the middle of the 4 suggestions I've made.)

I make "lazy" french toast this time of year. I usually use texas toast, leave it out overnight, and soak it for a few seconds per side in eggnog. Then I put a bit of maple syrup and powdered sugar on top. It's delicious, and the only way my hubby will even touch eggnog.

As a Northerner, what perplexes me most about snow days in Louisville is the general lack of common-courtesy snow-shovelling. Up there, the first thing you hear early on a snowy morning is the scraping sound of shovels around the neighborhood. Not shoveling your walk is the social equivalent of letting your lawn go to seed, parking a derelict car on the grass and then tossing Aunt Mildred on the sidewalk to break her hip.

I'm not sure about private homes, but businesses are required by law to clear and salt the sidewalk immediately. If they don't do it, they get fined quick. Here, it seems that most people prefer to wait for it to melt. Why the difference?

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. Here, it seems that most people prefer to wait for it to melt. Why the difference?

Because we are sort of in the Bible Belt.
The Lord put it there.
The Lord takes it away.

Works for me.

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. Here, it seems that most people prefer to wait for it to melt. Why the difference?

Because we are sort of in the Bible Belt.
The Lord put it there.
The Lord takes it away.

Works for me.

Now that was funny....

But I suspect it's because Louisville generally doesn't get anywhere near the extent of snow as up north. I remember when the fining started in Chicago. Suddenly everybody got very fastidious about shovelling sidewalks. It's more of a nuisance when you've got more inches and many more months of the stuff.

As a Northerner, what perplexes me most about snow days in Louisville is the general lack of common-courtesy snow-shovelling. Up there, the first thing you hear early on a snowy morning is the scraping sound of shovels around the neighborhood. Not shoveling your walk is the social equivalent of letting your lawn go to seed, parking a derelict car on the grass and then tossing Aunt Mildred on the sidewalk to break her hip.

I'm not sure about private homes, but businesses are required by law to clear and salt the sidewalk immediately. If they don't do it, they get fined quick. Here, it seems that most people prefer to wait for it to melt. Why the difference?

Here is the general requirement from the LMCO 97.113 property owners have 24 hrs to clear their sidewalks. But it in my experience unless your in a high traffic area enforcement will take between 2-7 days.

... While I don't think it is a KY state law they we must go out and buy milk/bread/toilet paper, it might as well be. Even better was the snow storm in the mid-nineties when we got snowed in for a good week, mainly because the powers that be couldn't find the snow plows!

We were really surprised to see that same stock up mentality here in Maine. Our difference is it's milk/bread/flashlight batteries (oddly not toilet paper). I suspect that goes back to the olden days when convenient shopping wasn't so prevalent.

I'd also like to point out that we had a wicked bad rain storm yesterday, but still no snow.