Every day after school was always hectic at our house. My father would come home around five and start working on dinner. At this point he would go into his own zone, and hated being asked what was on the menu. ‘You get what I cook,’ he would say. ‘That’s all well and good,’ I would think, ‘but what the hell do we eat now?'
I would generally rummage through the cupboards and pull out the crackers. With a bit of Vegemite and cheese, I was content for another hour. I have always taken crackers for granted. Kinda like breakfast cereal, I always just have them in the cupboard. This is probably the reason why I never thought to make them or spend any time on really nice toppings.
Now that my own kids are coming home ravenous every single day from school I am really thinking about what they eat before dinner. Too much and dinner will be a waste of time; too little and they lose it. So I either give them crackers or serve dinner at five!
I also love serving crackers as appetisers for dinner parties. If you don’t have the time to make the crackers from scratch, plain lavash or other unleavened bread will do.