A Toast!

Have you ever had that gluten-free bread, possibly made from rice or pecan flour, that's about a quarter the size of real bread, that you pretend is bread because you haven't had real bread in so long? And then you toast it so that it tastes slightly more like real bread, and put butter on it so it tastes slightly better than almost-real bread? Do you remember the look and texture of that soft, airy, normal-sized piece of bread, perhaps homemade, and then sticking it in the toaster, allowing the aroma to fill the kitchen in the morning? Then taking it out once the toaster pops up again, and spreading butter on its warm, crisp, toasted surface and letting it melt in, then taking that first, delicious, soft-on-the-inside, crisp-on-the-outside, warm, buttery bite? I suggest that you try it with this new brand of bread - the New Grains Bakery Marvelous Gluten Free Multigrain Bread. Let me just say, I had to catch myself a few times while eating it, from some disconnect in my head that I was eating real, wheat bread. This happened several mornings this week, after which I consciously reassured myself that it was truly safe to eat. This bread is truly a prize, I will have to acquire some more on my next visit to the house as I simply cannot go without my morning toast - and I haven't tried French toast yet!