Lasagna Grilled Cheese It’s like… what won’t I put between two slices of grilled bread? Well. I won’t put cake between grilled bread. I will, however, try to smash every comforting savory food I can think of into a sandwich. I can’t deal… I’ll just eat it all. Let’s talk about ingredients. Bright tomato and creamy ricotta are the essence of lasagna. If we’re eating big fat slices of bread, it might as well be really good big fat slices of bread. Ricotta! I could easily scoop ricotta straight from the container and into my face, but kicking this sandwich up with some extra lasagna-ish ingredients is always a good idea. Here we’re seasoning our ricotta with fresh basil, salt and pepper. Let the layering begin! Bread is topped with mozzarella cheese. Between the tomato seeds and the bread seeds, I can’t see straight. Our other half of bread is dolloped generously with seasoned ricotta. This sandwich looks so good before grilling that you might want to stop here. Warming the sandwich can only make it better. Ps. Pps.
Dad's Friday Night Pasta Dish I know that it may only be Thursday, but I am preparing you guys for Friday. No but really, I am posting this specifically on Thursday so you can make this tomorrow. It is a must. Ready for another “when I was growing up” story? Well, I still feel like I am growing up. Of course, I almost never get to cook for him because is off flipping upside down through the air somewhere. Alright, so I think we all get by now that I was a pretty weird kid (still am, but I am kind of not considered a kid anymore). A lot of Fridays I would force myself to hang out with my friends because one, I did actually like them, and two, if I did not devote a little time to them outside of school I would not have any friends to hang with at school. Still sounds totally weird, but what’s new. Whatever I did though, this was almost always dinner on Friday night. I am not really sure when my dad actually started making this pasta, but he has made it for as long as I can remember. A few key ingredients? 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.)
Chile Relleno Grilled Cheese Sandwich Share on Pinterest After a long day, isn’t it nice sometimes to just come home, put on your most comfortable pair of lounge pants (you know, that pair that you’ve had for 4 years that you just can’t let go of) and quickly toss together a comforting, irresistibly filled and piled high with cheesy goodness, grilled cheese sandwich. Then to enjoy it hot of the griddle with all the stringy cheese, mmmm mouthwatering. I call it grilled cheese bliss. I love building grilled cheese sandwiches because there are countless combinations of what can be created and you have a simple yet satisfying meal in a number of minutes. I’ve made three different kinds of grilled cheeses to join in on the celebration of grilled cheese month (yeah grilled cheese is so amazing it’s earned a whole month of celebration. Share on Pinterest Share on Pinterest Share on Pinterest Share on Pinterest Share on Pinterest Chile Relleno Grilled Cheese Sandwich Ingredients Pico de Gallo Directions
Banana Cake Recipe | Banana Bars with Peanut Butter Frosting Easy Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting Easy Banana Cake topped with creamy peanut butter frosting! A great recipe for using up those brown bananas! Oh, brown bananas why do you make me create such delicious recipes? My latest bunch of brown bananas fell victim to this Easy Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting. I love this banana cake recipe because we always have the ingredients on hand. I also love this cake because there is nothing fancy about it. Let’s take a moment to talk about the peanut butter frosting. The cake is perfect the day it’s made, but I personally think it is even better the second day. Use your brown bananas to make this Easy Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting. Easy Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting Yield: Serves 16Prep Time: 10 minutesCook Time: 20-25 minutesTotal Time: 35 minutes Banana cake topped with creamy peanut butter frosting.
creative grilled cheese « The Food Freak a;lkdsfkdsfkadslkjf;jldkfjf!!! That’s the only way I can think of to express my excitement about this sandwich through words over the Internet. This Chicken Parm grilled cheese idea had been floating around in my head for a long time but I never gave it a shot. I thought critically about the construction of it. The bread has got to be right, I used a good Italian bread. Ingredients: 1 Homemade breaded organic chicken breast, pounded thinly. 1/2 Cup (4-5 slices) Mozzarella cheese 4-5 Fresh basil leaves 2 Slices of a Italian Bread Fresh Tomato Sauce Mayo, instead of butter for spreading on the outside of the bread. Thinly slice up the mozz. Take your cooked chicken cutlet and dip it in hot tomato sauce. To assemble the sandwich, place about 2 slices of mozzarella on each side of the bread along with 2-3 basil leaves. Evenly spread the mayo all over the outside surface of the bread. It’s best to use a cast iron pan if you have one, if not, a good non-stick works fine.
Apple Banana Quinoa Breakfast Cups This post is possessed! It published itself yesterday, then deleted itself, then rescheduled itself to be posted in 2015. What the what?? Let’s try this again… Normally, when bananas are about to go bad, I’ll peel them, slice ‘em up, and put them in a Ziploc bag in the freezer to use in smoothies. These quinoa breakfast cups are delicious and filling—each one is dense, so it only takes one (or, ok, maybe two) to satisfy morning hunger. Apple Banana Quinoa Breakfast Cups Ingredients ½ cup applesauce 1 cup mashed banana (about 3 bananas) 1 banana for slicing 1 cup cooked quinoa (about ½ cup dry) 2 ½ cups old-fashioned oats ½ cup almond milk ¼ cup honey 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp cinnamon 1 apple, peeled and chopped Instructions Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Notes Store in an airtight container in the fridge. Make a batch and eat them all week for breakfast or as a post-workout snack.
Monterey Chicken Grilled Cheese Monterey Chicken Grilled Cheese is chicken, bacon, BBQ sauce, and cheddar cheese grilled up on crusty, hearty bread. Hi everybody, welcome to a new week! First thing’s first, I apologize if you were unable to access the site this weekend to get a recipe or check in. It took a bit longer to start showing up on the new server than anticipated then, to top it all off, the new server had its own outage yesterday. Blarg! The rest of the weekend went fast, don’t ya think?! Ok, it still does. Still no glider decision. Anyway, yesterday was a work day for me, but I took some time to whip up this mouthwatering Monterey Chicken Grilled Cheese for Ben and me for lunch: Decadent and drool-worthy, this sandwich is definitely a splurge, but super good for the soul. I’m entering the sandwich in the 2013 Grilled Cheese Academy’s Recipe Showdown to hopefully win some sweet cookware prizes. Start the Monterey Chicken Grilled Cheese by cookin’ up some bacon! Most moist (moistest?) I mean! Print this recipe!
Quinoa Breakfast Skillet Hello hello. Yep, quinoa for breakfast again. Doesn’t really make you want to have a sleepover now does it? Even though I might shove quinoa down your throat in the morning, I promise the actual sleepover part will be fun. Well, sort of – I only lived for them with my best friend who lived across the street from me, because any further away from my house and I’d have a major meltdown. Not much has changed folks… not much has changed. Anyhoo – we had the best sleepovers. This may come as a shock… but that’s the extent of my camping resume. Super surprising!!! The morning after our sleepover… sometimes we made videos. We also discussed 90210… a LOT of 90210. Sleepovers were the bane of my mom’s existence. I’m going to embarrassingly admit that my sleepovers from 20 years ago would be eerily similar to my sleepovers today. I don’t know. What time can you be here? Leave a Review » Yield: 4 servings Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add bacon.
Taco Grilled Cheese Sandwich This will be the last new grilled cheese for the National Grilled Cheese Month and it is possibly the tastiest, the taco grilled cheese. The basic idea is to take all of the flavours of taco night and stuff them into one rather large grilled cheese sandwich! This sandwich starts with some taco seasoned ground beef made with a homemade taco seasoning and then it continues with the classic taco toppings including salsa, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, guacamole and it is of course finished with plenty of melted cheese! With all of those ingredients this is one large sandwich and with the salsa, sour cream and guacamole in there it can be one messy sandwich. Feel free to omit the salsa and sour cream from the sandwich and serve them on the side for dipping and it is also fun to serve this grilled cheese topped with them along with the guacamole and eating it with a knife and fork. This sandwich is definitely a nice way to celebrate the upcoming Cinco de Mayo in grilled cheese style!
Empanadas de Espinaca (Spinach Empanadas) | Tara's Multicultural Table Empanadas (Empada in Portuguese) are hand pies originally from Portugal and northwestern Spain, Galicia. They can be traced back to the Middle East and India. There are now many variations of empanadas, as settlers brought them to North America, South America, and Asia. Empanadas de Espinaca were created by a bakery in Cali, Colombia. These empanadas are filled with garlic, spinach, ricotta (or cottage cheese), and Parmesan. They can be baked or fried. To seal the edges, a “repulgue” technique is used to create the rope shaped edge. Here is a guide for folding empanadas and a video from Global Table Adventure. I froze the extras before baking for quick lunches during the week. Empanadas de Espinaca (Spinach Empanadas) Ingredients Dough: 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons salt pinch paprika 1 cup warm water 3/4 cup lard or butter, melted Filling: 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon red chile powder 8 ounces fresh spinach, stems removed and thinly sliced
Baked Potato Grilled Cheese Behold my latest creation…THE BAKED POTATO GRILLED CHEESE! After the glory that was the Brocolli & Cheddar Soup Grilled Cheese , I began racking my brain for what other wonderful things I could deconstruct into grilled cheese format. Soon enough I had envisioned this piece of grilled cheese heaven! I mean how can you go wrong with fried potatoes, bacon, cheese, sour cream and chives all made into a melty grilled cheese? So here is how I went about making it. The Baked Potato Grilled Cheese 2-3 Strips of Bacon 1 Potato 2 tbsp of Sour Cream Cheddar Cheese Green Onions/Chives 2 Slices of Bread Butter Canola Oil Garlic Powder Salt & Pepper To start things off, get a pan on medium heat with enough canola oil to lightly cover the bottom (you could also use olive oil or butter). While cooking, salt and pepper the potatoes to taste (they don’t have to be too salty as the bacon with help with the saltiness as well) and sprinkle a light pinch of garlic powder. The greatness awaits Bob
Broccoli Chicken Cheddar Braided Crescent Recipe This is our new favorite meal! This beautiful braided crescent is easy and quick - as in the whole thing is prepped while your oven preheats! That's my kind of dinner. Mix together chicken (I've used canned chicken as well as Cousin Darlene's chicken), broccoli, cheese, egg, and mayo together in a bowl. Spread your crescent rolls out to form a rectangle. Add the chicken mixture to the middle of the crescent roll rectangle. Beginning from one end, alternate sides, pulling the dough across at an angle. This part actually goes quickly... and yet the final result is awesome! Brush the braid with a wash of egg white mixed with a tablespoon of water. Bake in your preheated oven at 375 for 30 minutes...golden, cheesy, and delicious! Homemade Crescent Roll Recipe (adapted from food.com) 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup Crisco 1 cup warm water 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast 1 teaspoon salt 4 cups flour Beat eggs and sugar until well combined. To make immediately, let dough rise in a warm place for about 1 hour.
Bacon Double Cheeseburger Grilled Cheese Sandwich April is National grilled cheese month! Given my obsession with grilled cheese sandwiches you can bet that there are going to be some new grilled cheese sandwiches on Closet Cooking over the next few weeks starting off with these absolutely tasty bacon double cheeseburger grilled cheese sandwiches! The idea here is to include all of the flavours of a mouth watering bacon double cheese burger in grilled cheese form. This sandwich starts out with the bacon and then it moves on to some ground beef that is seasoned with some classic burger patty flavours such as onions, garlic, worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper or steak seasoning. You can't have a burger without some condiments like ketchup and/or mustard and since you don't really want a soggy grilled cheese sandwich I add them to the ground beef and cook off some of the excess moisture. Up next is the double cheese, the cheddar and mozzarella, followed by the fresh condiments including shredded lettuce, diced tomato and pickle.
Homemade Taco Seasoning Homemade Taco Seasoningadapted from allrecipes.comenough to season 1 lb of meat(Printable Recipe) 1 Tbsp chili powder 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes 1/4 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tsp paprika 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp black pepper Combine all ingredients together in a small bowl. Store in an airtight container.