Hot chicken salad baked with celery, toasted almonds, and lemon juice in a creamy dressing, topped with cheddar cheese and bread crumbs until golden and bubbly.
Crispy golden French toast sandwiches stuffed with sweet jam, dusted with cinnamon sugar. Ready in 30 minutes, these fun triangles turn breakfast into handheld heaven for kids and adults.
Simple onion soup with cheese toast, made from tender-cooked onions simmered in milk with butter. A creamy, old-fashioned take on onion soup ready in just 20 minutes.
Sesame shrimp toasts are crispy Chinese appetizers with minced shrimp, ginger, and five-spice pressed onto bread, coated in sesame seeds, and pan-fried until golden.
Shrimp paste spread made with ground shrimp, creamed butter, nutmeg, and cayenne, topped with toasted bread crumbs and baked until golden. Serve chilled as an appetizer.
To Do Tarts: small pecan cookies bound with ground stale bread, orange zest, and stiffly beaten egg white. Five-ingredient nut cookies with no flour and no butter, ready in 30 minutes.
Bohna soup is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch bean and milk soup, finished with brown butter croutons. Six pantry ingredients and a heritage recipe in one pot.
Homemade garlic croutons baked from thick slices of stale French bread brushed with crushed garlic and olive oil. Large, golden, and crunchy with real garlic flavor in every bite.
Open-faced cheddar sandwiches broiled with a creamy cheese spread made from sharp cheddar, cream, hard-boiled egg, pimento, and olives, topped with crossed bacon slices until bubbly and crisp.
Chutney cheese toasts topped with sauteed bacon, onion, and fresh tomato then grilled until the cheese melts golden. A savory open-faced snack ready in 30 minutes.
The classic potato chip sandwich: white bread, generous mayo, and a towering pile of chips crushed between the slices. A 3-ingredient, 5-minute British pub snack and childhood guilty pleasure.
Homemade oven-baked croutons from day-old bread, slow-dried at low heat until golden and crunchy. One ingredient, any herbs you like, and better than anything from a bag.
Oysters Tyler: baked oysters on the half shell topped with a crabmeat, scallion, and Parmesan patty. A Gulf Coast seafood appetizer for holiday tables or oyster-bar feasts.
Acquacotta: a Tuscan peasant soup of bell peppers, onions, celery, and tomatoes simmered in water and finished with beaten eggs and Parmesan, ladled over toasted bread.
Schwaebische Pockets (Swabian Maultaschen) with homemade egg noodle dough filled with smoked ham, toasted bread cubes, and onion rings. Simmered in salted water.
Sopa de ajo al horno is a Spanish baked garlic soup with crusty bread cubes, red pepper flakes, and eggs poached in the broth. Castilian peasant comfort food, ready in 35 minutes.