I'm guessing 'broiler' is American for 'grill' then. I have learned a new thing today.

Yeah, Emily, you should be able to broil in the toaster oven. Now I want Welsh Rabbit. Mmmm.... cheese...

It was raining just now! It was actually raining! First it started like just a few drops, like more than once happens this time of the year (before Sukkot), but then suddenly it started actually raining, real rain with wind and puddles and splushing my glasses so that all the street lamps looked like diamonds out of an old movie and people who were walking in the street and saw how delighted I was of all that thought I was completely insane (including, um, my newest-roommate) and probably more than one sukkah (an improvised little sort of hut, with a roof of branches and leaves) was a bit ruined by the actual rain, but it was raining and I nearly danced my way back to the university and I'm such a big dork.

I love this. In general, the droughts in my part of the country seldom mean anything more serious than: There really isn't enough water to be watering your lawn with abandon. But I love it. I love the way everything smells after a good rain. I love how everything looks. Unless it is miserably cold, I don't even mind getting wet, and generally don't bother with an umbrella, unless I'm going somewhere where I should look half decent.

I was never much of a Barbra Streisand fan, but she had a song called Kiss Me in the Rain, with the lines, Kiss me in the rain, and make me feel like a child again
Bring back all those memories...

I was just the right age when it came out, that it always spoke to me. t /dorkier than thou

Cooking question! How does one go about toasting only one side of a slice of bread, anyway?

Everyone else gave my answer. Broiler.

See, it's the first rain we've had here for a little ever, maybe seven months or something, so you're totally entitled for a completely different response than mine.

Well, true, but really I mean I'd rather be all happy like you are! I do continue to stand my opinion that I'm happy to have ever-changing weather, because it makes you appreciate stuff.

Oh, and Nilly, Welsh Rabbit is bread (toast) with a cheese/beer sauce over it. Basically. (Right?)

Edit: ...and here's a recipe that specifies using the broiler, too! [link]

Welsh Rabbit!

Will it make you happier or sadder if I ask what exactly that is?

It's a grilled cheese sandwich with delusions of grandeur.

I've always seen it called Welsh Rarebit. And it has Worcester sauce and maybe egg, I think. I guess YWRMV.

So no bunnies are harmed in the making of a Welsh Rabbit?

I'm guessing 'broiler' is American for 'grill' then. I have learned a new thing today.

I guess so -- When we say "grill," we mean either the thing outside (gas or charcoal powered), or sometimes a pan on the stove that makes lines on the food like if you cooked it on the grill outside. When we say "broiler" we mean the part in the bottom of a gas oven or top of an electric oven that cooks with close direct heat.