Pan Roasted Open Faced Grilled Cheese with Sun Dried Tomatoes, Avocado and Chiptole Lime Salt

5 out of the 6 ingredients came direct from Steve and Olivia at Farmer and the Cook

1. Heat an indulgent amount of olive oil in non-stick or other favorite grilled cheese making pan

2. Slice up some of Olivia's fresh spelt seed bread 

3. Place slices in oil and allow to "toast"

4. Meanwhile, grate up some yummy sharp cheddar cheese.  You could get this at FnC, but I had some from Vermont in my fridge.

5. Turn slices of bread over, sprinkle with cheese and cover to allow cheese to melt.

6. When cheese is melted, remove to a plate.  Put 2 or more of olivia's amazing smoked sun dried tomatoes on top.  Slice up some avocado and place on each sandwich.  Sprinkle with Olivia's amazing chipolte Lime sea salt.  Eat with a fork and knife for tidiness or not.

You can get Olivia's chipolte mix and tomatoes at organichiles.com.

Anniversary Panini

Tonight is eric and my 11th wedding anniversary.

We made paninis.

I made eric's with salami, goat cheese, Basil and red onion.

Mine was Dublin Cheddar and Basil.

Too much olive oil in a pan.

Fry sandwich in the olive oil.

yum.

Pre Holiday Meal

When you find yourself dropping massive amounts of money on the food for the holiday, it's easy to forget about what's for dinner.

Tonight we had melted cheese and ham sandwiches.
Recipe for 2 sandwiches.

1. Start the broiler.
2. Under the broiler, lightly toast 4 slices of Sourdough Bread.
3. Flip bread over and pile two slices with thinly sliced black forest ham from westridge. And pile the others with cheese. Eric chose thinly sliced Point Reyes Blue Cheese, I chose thinly sliced Gruyere. Before putting the sandwich slice back in the broiler, I put some slices of red onion on Eric's Blue Cheese. Drizzle olive oil over meat and cheese. Grind fresh black pepper over everything.
4. Once cheese is melted to desired meltiness, remove from under broiler. Assemble sandwiches and slice in half.

Karl's Turkey Sanwiches

We have been eating lunch at Karl's Oak Tree Bakery in Ojai, Calif. a lot.
He makes the most delicious roast turkey sandwiches.
As good as you would make them the day after Thanksgiving if you had homemade bread and olive tapenade available.

Fresh Roasted Thickly sliced Turkey
Homemade 9 grain bread
Fresh Olive Tapenade
Mayo
Lots of Salt and Pepper

Served with a yummy Balsamic Dressing Salad.


Thanks, Karl!