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Now on to breakfast.

I love my breakfast. I love the way butter melts into my warm golden brown toast. The yoke of the egg as it spreads over the buttery surface. I generally prefer fresh bread cut from a loaf as apposed to that pre-sliced stuff. But let me explain for a moment. When we as Americans think of toast we think of this…

Now here in Croatia they think of this….

Yeah I know. What’s inside are pieces of bread that look like toast; except that they’re not toasted, have a sponge cake like texture and have nothing to do with toast at all!!

Have you ever had a sandwich where the bread was spongy? Americans are used to that soft pre-sliced stuff that makes the perfect PB&J or BLT. Here Toast is only good for toasting. Now this wouldn’t be  a problem except we don’t have a toaster. “No problem” you think “I’ll just put it in the oven.” That would work, if we had gas.

A gas oven needs gas, makes sense. But gas comes in those tanks people hook up to their grill and we have no idea how to get or install one. So I’ve been living for almost a month with no working oven, and no baking (but that’s a whole new post so never mind). Luckily as I was typing our landlord came by to measure the windows (don’t ask me why). He said he will get gas for us so I can bake again!!! We also pointed out the wasp nest on our patio. This was very comical because Zack was making buzzing noises and pretending to sting his arm. Our landlord doesn’t speak English and we don’t know how to say wasp in Croatian. He got the message though and I’m guessing will return to kill them at some point.

Not that I’ve gone way off topic we return to breakfast. Here the eggs are not as pasteurized and are fresh because there are no large chicken farms. Some of the eggs you get from the store still have a feather stuck to them. The eggs come in 12 packs but those have a tare here middle. By late afternoon all of the 12 pack eggs are gone or left in groups of 6. The only other large group of eggs you can get is a set of 10. Here is a picture of the 10 pack and you can see how bright the yoke is in the picture of the pan. Here is also my solution to not having a toaster or working oven when it comes to toasting my ‘toast’.