Recipe #347: Baked Sandwich

Today for lunch I made a loaf of bread with all the sandwich fixings inside! :)

It has a lot more sesame seeds on top until it accidentally rolled off my pizza peel and on to the floor! ;)

you need:
grapefruit sized piece of dough
ham
cheese (i used mozzarella and cheddar)
spinach
spicy mustard

• take out portion of dough and allow to rest for about 40 minutes. (half way through preheat oven to 450 with stone inside)
• roll dough out until its about 1/4 inch thick
• spread some mustard around the top
• then top with ham, cheese, and spinach
• roll up, tucking in the sides as you go, make sure seam is closed tightly and on bottom of roll
• spray some olive oil then add sesame seeds.
• bake for about 30-40 minutes
• allow to cool and then cut!

Recipe #332: Curried Egg Salad Sandwich

Another Real Simple Recipe!

you need:
4 eggs
1/4 cup mayo
1/2 tsp curry powder
chives,
cucumber
2 tortillas
spinach

• place eggs in water, bring to a boil, then turn off heat and cover. let it sit for 12 minutes
• then run under cold water, peel and chop up
• in a small bowl mix together mayo and curry powder
• add eggs and mix together.
• add chopped up chives
• on a tortilla later some sliced cucumber and spinach, top with half of the egg salad

Recipe #328: Open-Faced Caprese sandwiches (on #329: Basil Feta Bread)

Another Real Simple recipe. No picture though because my camera battery died!)

First the bread:
Follow the recipe found here, but after resting the bread for a bit fold in some fresh, cut basil and feta cheese!

Now the sandwich:
You need:
bread
1 chicken breast
1 roma tomato
munster cheese (technically you should use mozzarella, but i didn't feel like it!)
basil leaves

• cut chicken in half long ways to create thinner pieces
• heat pan with a little olive oil then cook chicken
• slice bread and top with chicken, basil, tomato slices, then cheese
• broil until cheese is melted!

Recipe #281: PB&J roll ups

We have officially started giving Alex peanut butter! Thank goodness he is not allergic! Will and I love it too much! :) He got first a taste accidentally, and we slowly gave him more tastes until we felt like it was okay for him to eat! We didn't have any bread so I made a PB&J wrap instead and he loved it! He also makes a complete mess because he has to unravel the wrap! :)

You need:
Peanut butter (our favorite is Natural Creamy Skippy!)
Jam (alas, we have run out of my grandma's homemade so I used grape jelly)
tortilla

• spread peanut butter on tortilla
• top with jam
• roll up, cut into small pieces
• feed to your child and steal a couple for yourself! :)

Recipe #270: Sweet Chili Chicken Wrap

Okay, this is probably the most delicious wrap ever! Sweet Chili Sauce is my new favorite! the best part was this was completely a leftover meal!

You need:
whole wheat tortillas
rotisserie chicken
balsamic cole slaw that I made here
sweet chili sauce

• heat up some chicken on a tortilla wrap.
• add in a spoonful or two of cole slaw 
• add in some sweet chili sauce, as much or little as your want!
• happiness in your mouth!

Recipe #246 and #247: {Bruschetta} and {Sweet vs Spicy} Grilled Cheese

It was the night of the Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear Grilled Cheeses!

We all started with the same base...Alex's sandwich:
You need:
2 pieces of bread (we used our homemade boule bread)

butter
mozzarella

For Will's Bruschetta Grilled Cheese you also need:
roma tomatoes
olive oil
basil

For Katie's Sweet vs Spicy you also need:
apple, thinly sliced
spicy brown mustard

• butter the outsides of the bread then lay on top of each other
• top some cheese
• add in your other special toppings (i spread the spice mustard to the inside of one of my pieces of bread)
• add a little more cheese on top so that when you heat it up it will melt together nicely
• warm up your fry pan and heat until both sides are a nice golden brown. Be careful when you flip them!

tastes great with some baked sweet potato rounds (basically this recipe here, but parsley instead of garlic) and edamame. I am trying to make my plate as colorful as possible to make sure we are eating a variety of veggies with each meal!

Recipe #245: Egg Griddle Sandwich

This week was not a good one in the world of trying new recipes. Will was not at home most evenings and I didn't have the energy to cook a full meal for just me, so Alex and I had some pretty basic meals!

This morning I snapped out of my rut thanks to random leftovers in the fridge and not having any bread! :) 

Pretty much it was an scrambled egg between two thick pancakes. Will had made up the rest of the pancake batter and stuck the extras in the fridge for alex's breakfasts...he just needs to work on not burning the outside, but all in all they tasted pretty good.

You need:

1 egg and 1 egg white

1 slice of cheese

a tiny handful of shredded cheese

2 thick pancakes

• mix egg, egg white and shredded cheese and scramble
• heat up pancakes 
• add slice of cheese and scrambled egg to the middle!

Recipe #232: Grown-Up Grilled Cheese!

I had been wanting a good grilled cheese, but didn't want to have to buy bread just to make it! So I made some bread tonight and had a delicious grilled cheese and avocado sandwich. It was delicious! I probably could have cut the bread a little better if I had let it cool more but I couldn't wait!

You need:
Crusty bread (make your own)
cheddar cheese
couple slices avocado
butter

• butter one side of each piece of bread
• add cheddar and avocado to the middle
• heat until cheese is melted and both sides are browned

Recipe #170: Avacado-Ham Wrap

So we had something light for dinner tonight, not at all what I planned, but it was what I was in the mood for
You need:
whole wheat wraps
ham cold cuts
bacon
avacado
cucumber
lettuce
green pepper
roasted sesame dressing

• spread toppings on wrap
• top with sesame dressing
• roll up, eat up!

Recipe #100: The almost subway sweet teriyaki sub sandwich!

Recipe 100 was a leftover recipe! I used the chicken and onions from a recipe here to make a tasty sandwich.

you need:
Half of a sub roll
Left over Adobe chicken and onions
cheese
lettuce

Heat up the chicken and onions a bit
toast the bread with cheese on it.
Add chicken and onions to bread
add a little bit of broth and lettuce!

Recipe #87: Ham and Bacon Wrap

When we get home from church we are usually pretty hungry so we don't so something fancy but fast!

You need:
a wrap or tortilla
cold cut ham or turkey
bacon
lettuce
cucumber
ranch dressing

• heat the wrap for 15 seconds
• fry up the bacon
• add ingredients
• roll up and enjoy!

Recipe #72: Not your average PB&J

If you live near a Trader Joe's you need to make sure you own Dark Chocolate Dreams, a delightful mixture of peanut butter and dark chocolate. I used it to make chocolate croissants found here. Well, for lunch on Saturday I decided to make a "grown up" peanut butter and jelly sandwich, using, of course, Dark Chocolate Dreams.

You need:
two pieces whole wheat bread
blueberry jam (my favorite!)
Dark Chocolate Dreams (you will have good dreams, I promise!)

On one piece of bread spread some sweet blueberry jam.
On the other piece spread a wonderful layer (a thick layer of course) of Dark chocolate Dreams.
The end result: AMAZING!

you honestly could cut it in to smaller pieces and serve it at a party. people would love it!

Recipe #64: Egg Salad Sandwhich

So, life has suddenly gotten really crazy (goodbye summer vacation!), and while I have been cooking, there are just not enough hours to write it all down! So these entries will probably be short and to the point!
Last Saturday, for lunch I let Will have the leftover chicken biscuits found here, and I decided to use up some of our huge amount of eggs to make an egg salad sandwich. Will hates it, but they had such good egg salad sandwiches in Japan that I just loved it! Anyways, there is really nothing special about it, plain and simple, which is probably why it tastes good! Also my mayo of choice is kewpie mayo from japan, but I unfortunately did not have any on hand! :(

You need:
5 eggs, boiled
2 Tbsp mayo, give or take depending on how much you like. me not a lot.

Boil your eggs.

So does anyone else have trouble with the eggs cracking when they start moving against the pan? I have tried putting them in after the water is boiling and , using different pans etc...finally this idea came to me--i used my silicone steamer! It worked great!
*update: I also learned that putting eggs in right after water is boiled and then sitting with no heat for 12 minutes is a good way too! :)

After your eggs are boiled. (I started them in the water so the whole time took about 12 minutes) run them under cold water so they peel easily.
Peel two eggs, cut up into small pieces
add mayo, mix up.
put on bread. I toasted mine and added a little cheddar cheese

The next day I cracked and peeled the other three which lasted two more meals...why not boil extra eggs to save some for later!

Recipe #51: Healthier BLTs

Since I had opened the bacon last night for our breakfast, I decided it would be a great time to make some BLTs! I love going to sandwich places and getting a BLT, it is so classic. Plus BLTs were a treat for us in Japan because bacon is hard to come by, and when we did have it, it was rationed very carefully! Of course when you add up the mayo, white bread, bacon, etc, it is not the healthiest sandwich to eat, but here is a twist that will hopefully cut the calories a little bit.

For one sandwich

You need:

2 pieces whole wheat bread

3 pieces turkey bacon

tomato

lettuce

honey mustard

• Start frying up that bacon first!
• pop your bread into the toaster.
• Cut up some tomato and lettuce. Also, cheese is a nice addition
• Put it all together!

Some fun variations:

instead of regular sandwich bread use sandwich thins, wraps, pita bread

give it a southwestern flavor by adding some guacamole or salsa instead of mayo or mustard

any other ideas?

Recipe #45: The perfect sandwich...

Will and I could live on sandwiches...only with the right bread, cheeses and meats though! We often get rolls at Sams. I stick them in the freezer and when we want a sandwich, I stick it in the oven, turn it on and by the time it has preheated, the roll is defrosted and has nicely warmed.

But I made some cibatta bread so we used that instead.

We filled it with turkey, ham or salami, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomatoes. 

On fabulous sandwiches do not put mayo, mustard, or butter... Olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper are perfect!

Enjoy!

Recipe #20: Perfect Grilled Cheese

I used to rush through the making of grilled cheese sandwiches until Will made them one day and they were so divine! I realized that you need to pay a little bit more attention to them to make them taste good!

You need:
bread
your choice of cheese
butter
sandwich meat

Really coat the outsides of the bread with butter. It makes it so much better. Add plenty of thin slices of cheese and some ham or turkey if you want. Heat one at a time in a medium-sized pan on medium heat. If you cook too fast the bread will burn before the cheese totally melts. Don't go too far away in case it burns! :)
End result = deliciousness!

p.s. you could eat this with soup, but why would you want to!

Recipe #11: Breakfast sandwich

I love breakfast, especially a hearty one. I could eat eggs every day! So, instead of going to McDonalds or some other place where you eat a breakfast sandwich that is completely processed and huge and too high calorie...make your own! :)

You will need...
2 eggs
cheese
breakfast meat--sausage or bacon. sometimes i even just use a slice of cold cuts
bread--toast, mini bagel, english muffin or a torilla

Scramble the eggs. Often I use one whole egg plus one egg whites. Add some grated cheese to the eggs before you scramble them for delicious cheesiness!
Prepare the breakfast meat and bread.
Put it all together! :)

So difficult I know. If I am short on time I often just put what ever cold cut meat we have around so I can cut out a step. The best part is you know exactly what goes in! Literally it takes 8 minutes...or less.
Tastes extra delicious with a cup of coffee!