A Rockin' Toast to Saturday's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees

Jill Donenfeld
Updated

I'm a big fan of toast. A big enough fan to write an entire cookbook about it.

I don't cook without music, so when I heard two of my playlist favorites Bill Withers and Lou Reed were being honored at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, that called for a toast. As in bread, toasted. With something yummy on top. Once I got started, I got hungry and decided to pay homage to all eight winners, loading up seedy slices of quality, affordable, and yummyDave's Killer Breadwith toppings as eclectic as this group of inductees. King crab, trumpet mushrooms, marmalade...crank up the volume and click this video to see how it all comes together.

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Hungry now? Here's the details on eight toasts that rock:

1 First on the line up: Bill Withers' Just the Two of Us Toast on Dave's Killer Bread Thin-Sliced 21 Whole Grains and Seed seared with a soulful slice of butter and two sunny-side-up eggs, because after all, they're "ain't no sunshine when she's gone." Just these two ingredients are all you'll need.


2. Next on stage, Ringo Starr's All Starr Toast: Skillet-seared Blues Bread and smeared with Chicken Liver Mousse to go back to his Liverpool roots. Ringo's classic masterpiece, "Octopus's Garden" is faithfully recreated with a tender combination of charred octopus and dusted with his very own "Starr" star anise.

3. In Joan Jett's Cherry Bomb Toast: Powerseed is covered in ground sumac and cloves to start it off real slow in "Crimson and Clover." We're dropping our "Cherry Bomb" with freshly popped skillet cherry tomatoes and topping with none other than Blackened Artichoke Hearts.

4. Sit back for a smooth ride on The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Strawberry Jam Toast: Bring back that Blues Bread, go deep in a field of creamy butter, and spread some sweet strawberry jam all over this sweet soulful morning slice.

5. We're keeping it "high-class" with The Five Royales Royal Toast: Toasting in their royal lineage on Good Seed, we're smearing on royal jelly butter honey and crowning their blues dynasty with what else but roasted royal trumpet mushrooms and King Crab. And on that final sleek note, we're letting a royal veloutￃﾩ sauce take a solo all over this reigning sweet-salty combo.

6. On Stevie Ray Vaughn's Little Wing Toast we're hitting all his power tabs on Powerseed Bread and going back to his Dallas roots with Smoky Texas-Style BBQ battered chicken wings.

7. And for Lou Reed's Berliner Egg Cream Sunday Morning Brunch Toast we're starting this "Perfect Day" on Good Seed soaked in egg and milk, and then seared for an Egg Cream French toast. Spread marmalade on that like the creamy inside of a "Berliner" doughnut and slice off a few banana pieces from the Velvet Underground's iconic cover art to stamp your morning with Lou. Finally, listen through Berlin all the way through (that whole album is a masterpiece) with a chord of dusted powdered sugar.

8. And for the final act, "Nice Guys Finish Last" with Green Day American Idiot-Proof Toast: It's pretty simple. Dave's 21 Grains lays down a slice for "21 Guns," and let's hope any idiot can pop a slice into the toaster to crank out some of these toast classics.