Cheese for Breakfast & Lunch

Happy Nom Nom Monday.  I love cheese.  You could add cheese to just about anything, and make it taste five times better, in my book.  For today I have three cheeses, and what I made for breakfast and lunch with them.  

Breakfast was a simple sunny-side up egg.  I love a well cooked runny egg.  First heat a frying pan on high for a minute, add a little oil so the egg doesn't stick.  Warm the oil.  Carefully crack an egg or two into the pan, lower the heat down to medium.  Add seasonings, this is what makes the eggs taste yummy without anything on them, so choose wisely.  I generally go with a little garlic powder, seasoned salt, and some freshly grated parmesan cheese.  Cover the pan so the whites cook through, and the bottom of the egg doesn't end up burnt.  Keep your eye on the pan.  When it's cooked to your desire of slurrpiness your done.  I like gooey eggs, so it only takes five minutes at the longest.  So yummy, easy, and quick.  No reason to skip breakfast if you have some eggs and seasonings in your house.  If I'm really hungry, or only want one egg, I will eat this with toast.  I love soaking up all the runny yoke on my warm bread.  

For lunch I made grilled tuna fish sandwiches.  One for me, and one for Aaron.  I made the tuna with a tablespoon of mayo, half a tablespoon of vidalia onion mustard, 10 basil leaves torn into small pieces,  two tablespoons of shredded cheddar cheese, and a tablespoon of relish.  Mixed that all together, I added a tiny bit of mayo to some potato bread, placed a single slice of american cheese on the bread, and spooned half the tuna mixture on.  The tuna mix made two sandwiches.  

Next, I warmed and seasoned my pan with a pat of butter, a little garlic powder, and a little seasoned salt on high heat.  Fresh garlic and some basil would have been nice too, but I was lazy.  After the pan warmed for a couple minutes I carefully placed my sandwich in the frying pan.  With the cheese slice on top, that way it didn't melt too fast.  After about a minute, I flipped the tuna squish (as Aaron calls it), and let sit for another minute.  Once both sides are lightly browned, dish up!  I like to cut mine in half,  and let it cool off  before I take the first amazing gooey bite.  The fresh basil was a great accompaniment to the tuna, and mayo, and mustard, and awesomeness.  I will be making this again, my new favorite grilled cheese!  

Hope ya'll are having a great Monday, happy DIYing, chris.  

BLT Grilled Cheese

Aaron and I hung out with our good friends Kristen & James last night, and they had a magazine with 50 different grilled cheese recipes.  I woke up this morning salivating with grilled cheese ideas.  So I HAD to make some for this edition of Nom Nom Mondays!  After eating some breakfast, we headed over to this fantastic local farmer's market called Highland Orchards.  We bought some tasty fresh bread, farmer's cheese, a tomato, romaine lettuce, spinach, and some organic bacon.  

Aaron also picked out some broccoli and kohlrabi.  We started our broccoli a bit late, and only two of them came up.  Boo-hoo.  These look lovely though, so yay for local farmers!

We shared lunch with my mom, so I enlisted her help with slicing the bread.  My mom is dang skilled at slicing bread thinly and neatly by hand.  My slices always end up thick and uneven.  

Aaron slowly cooked up some bacon on medium/low heat.  We like our bacon crispy, so this was the longest step.  When the bacon was done we moved it to a plate with some paper towels, and we used the bacon grease to cook the sandwiches in.  Oh man, that was a key step there, that bread tasted phenomenal.  

We placed the bread in the bacon juices, and then layered on the farmer's cheese, tomato, bacon, and the other bread slice.   After about two minutes we flipped the sandwich.  

Once the bread was browned to our liking and the cheese was the perfect meltiness (that is definitely a real word), we sliced them in half and commenced eating!  

Perfect sandwich!  We will definitely be making these again.  Before packing it all in, I opened it up and slipped some of that lovely romaine in there too.  The bread and cheese and bacon and lettuce were all so prefect together, mmmmm.  I can't wait until we have some of our own tomatoes and lettuces to put on the sandwiches!

Here's Cricket Chicken wishing you a happy Nom Nom Monday, and happy DIYing!  Hope to see you tomorrow, chris.