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What’s on Your Toast?

Experience Life staffers share their favorite toast toppers. Did yours make the cut?

toast topped with avocado and tomatoes
toast with an egg and microgreens

My toast ensemble sounds high-maintenance, but it’s worth the effort: toasted sourdough (always), mashed avocado, goat cheese crumbles, everything bagel seasoning, microgreens, over-easy egg, and chili crisp oil.

— Courtney Lewis Opdahl, 
managing editor

It depends on the occasion. Am I eating eggs and sausage? I want half butter, half jam. Am I running late for something? Then it’s crunchy peanut butter. Am I traveling? I’ll use whatever fruit butter I can get my hands on. I love to feel fancy, even through a humble piece of toast.

— Cole Luskey,
business and circulation specialist

Coconut oil, natural peanut butter, honey from a friend’s bee apiary, and sliced banana.

— Christy Rice,
digital content specialist

toast with peanut butter, bananas and honey

Strawberry jam! Ideally, it would be the homemade jam made by two friends of mine. But I also like other locally crafted jams and preserves — the kind you can buy at farmers’ markets in small towns.

— Brett Fechheimer,
fact-checker/copy editor

toast with strawberry jam

 Butter, then peanut butter, then sliced super-sour dill pickles. Fat and acid!

— Courtney Helgoe,
executive editor

Thick, cold slabs of Kerrygold butter, preferably on lukewarm toast so the butter doesn’t melt and I can bite into it.

— Anjula Razdan,
senior director–digital

toast with avocado and tomato slices

Hands down, my favorite combo is avocado, fresh cherry tomatoes, a drizzle of high-quality olive oil, and everything bagel seasoning. Sometimes I’ll add a schmear of cream cheese too.

— Jamie Martin,
editor in chief

My toast ensemble sounds high-maintenance, but it’s worth the effort: toasted sourdough (always), mashed avocado, goat cheese crumbles, everything bagel seasoning, microgreens, over-easy egg, and chili crisp oil.

— Courtney Lewis Opdahl, 
managing editor

Coconut oil, natural peanut butter, honey from a friend’s bee apiary, and sliced banana.

— Christy Rice,
digital content specialist

toast with peanut butter, bananas and honey

 Butter, then peanut butter, then sliced super-sour dill pickles. Fat and acid!

— Courtney Helgoe,
executive editor

Thick, cold slabs of Kerrygold butter, preferably on lukewarm toast so the butter doesn’t melt and I can bite into it.

— Anjula Razdan,
senior director–digital

toast with strawberry jam

Strawberry jam! Ideally, it would be the homemade jam made by two friends of mine. But I also like other locally crafted jams and preserves — the kind you can buy at farmers’ markets in small towns.

— Brett Fechheimer,
fact-checker/copy editor

It depends on the occasion. Am I eating eggs and sausage? I want half butter, half jam. Am I running late for something? Then it’s crunchy peanut butter. Am I traveling? I’ll use whatever fruit butter I can get my hands on. I love to feel fancy, even through a humble piece of toast.

— Cole Luskey,
business and circulation specialist

Hands down, my favorite combo is avocado, fresh cherry tomatoes, a drizzle of high-quality olive oil, and everything bagel seasoning. Sometimes I’ll add a schmear of cream cheese too.

— Jamie Martin,
editor in chief

toast with avocado and tomato slices
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