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When Hunger StrikesCrunchy, salty, sweet snacks to bridge the gap |
Snacktime: not just for toddlers. In fact, between-meal snacks are no less important than your three squares. We polled a loose circle of CHOW associates to find ten quick bites, from the mundane to the outlandish.
1. Bavarian-style pretzels with Jarlsberg cheese.
2. Sliced apples with almond butter.
3. A hunk of salami with a piece of crusty bread. Fra’Mani is one of our favorites.
4. Cold, good-quality roast beef or ham with a smear of Inglehoffer Sweet Hot Mustard rolled around a cornichon.
5. A pitted date stuffed with a raw almond. Try it with some good-quality blue cheese, such as Maytag.
6. Thin rye crackers with fromage blanc or goat cheese and cold smoked salmon. To make this vegetarian, substitute pears for the salmon and add a few grinds of black pepper.
7. A quick quesadilla: Combine shredded Monterey jack cheese with your favorite salsa and spread it on a flour tortilla. Heat in a pan and fold the tortilla in half when the cheese is melted. Add guacamole and sour cream.
8. A broken-up chocolate bar, sliced bananas, and a drizzle of honey. If this seems too indulgent, use yogurt instead of chocolate.
9. Cinnamon toast: Spread a slice of toast with unsalted butter, and sprinkle it with a mixture of turbinado sugar and ground cinnamon.
10. One of our editors turns to buttered popcorn with Hot Tamales cinnamon candies. If you can’t stomach that, go for our more high-brow Frenchified Popcorn.
It's clear that Chow editors like their cheese! (But who can blame them?) My blue cheese of the moment is D' Auvergne, which you cna get at Whole Foods. It's creamy and rich, but unlike some other blues that sour as you chew them, the tang on this one is up-front and the finish is smooth.
I would favor the salted, savory snacks rather than the sweets.I used to eat pretzels dipped in home made blue cheese dressing.
The cheese and apple graphic at the top looks like 100, not 10.
I think that you made it look like 100 snacks, not 10.
At $30-$60/pound, that Fra'Mani salami had better be good!
All time favorite snack...a crunchy dill pickle smeared with peanut butter. Try it. You will be a convert!
When I was a kid my Mom made cinnamon toast somewhat like you describe. She would make a paste of the butter, cinnamon and sugar, spread it thick on a piece of white bread, then broil it in the stove-top broiler on her Chambers range until dark brown and bubbly. We'd eat them as soon as they cooled down enough to put in the mouth. I haven't had something like that in decades.
Many people give me the "You're Nuts" look when I say "Dunk your Oreos in Welches Grape Drink." For bittersweet chocolate lovers, this is a must.
Best snacks: apples and peanut butter, apricot jam with unsalted butter on toast, dates and goat cheese and Humbolt Fog
wow, dates and goat cheese sound good....but one of my favorites is chunks of feta and slices of ham eaten by the mouthful and then some scoops of garlicy salsa. the salsa and the cheese balance eachother and you have some good protein and taste with the ham.
I thought I was the only person on earth who loved the dill pickle, peanut butter combo. I eat a dp and pb sandwich on a weekly basis.
Good rye toast (or even better, the jewish rye known as "cornbread", but it's not so easy to find)-- rub a garlic clove over the toast, then butter it. mmmmmmmmm.
crusty bread+gorgonzola dolce+fig jam=happy face
Spread blue chees on dried apricots
I like that the editor for number 10 likes plain old popcorn with Tamales. Not everything has to be gourmet to be good :).
I like boiled quail eggs for snack, but my favorite is mixed nuts with M&Ms in them. I hate raisins, so it's easier just to mix a bag of M&Ms with a can of mixed nuts than to buy trail mix.
Dill pickle people.. have you ever had ham, cream cheese, and pickle rolls?
a couple of pitted prunes with fresh english walnuts
I slice of deli ham smeared with cream cheese and rolled around a green onion.
a crumpet toasted with butter and a honey... drool worthy!