Grilled Cheese and New Look

Hey all! How is everyone? Its been a long time but I do have a recipe for you! Actually a few variations on Grilled Cheese, which is one of my favorite meals :) its cheap, delish, and a crowd pleaser. For this day I had a stale baguette, lots of cheeses and other varios things, so this is what I came up with to refresh the bread and make a super yummo meal :) Look at that thing! Amazing.

Ingrediants-
Baguette
Mozzarella
Dubliner
Apricot Preserves
Butter
Chicken Broth (stay with me...)

Start with the stale baguette, yours may be fresh but mine was rock hard! Slice in half. Get a pan on medium heat with some butter in it. Once the butter is melted, get the insides of the baguette roasty toasty. Flip the bread and spread the preserves on the inside of the baguette. Layer the mozzarella and dubliner in once side and put the top on that puppy! Now because my bread was so stale, to refresh it, I flipped mine top down, added a little chicken broth to the pan and covered. This allowed the bread to steam in chickeny goodness!!

 Once the broth evaporated, I took the lid off, upped the heat a bit and crisped the bread. I have to tell ya this worked AMAZING, infact I did it again but this time with Cheddar, Blue Cheese and Fig spread! YUM!

Also for those who read the actual blog, I have done some updates! New header and more... Things will be changing around some more BUT this is the fun for now! Stay tuned, more Darlene updates will be coming, art, recipes and some Lion's joy!! :D 

Being Domestic

So its super late, I have to be up early for class and of course Im wired. Ugh.. So Im cooking up a delish lunch for tomorrow for myself and Gentleman Friend. :) Yes, Im a domestic Goddess as well. Its been a long time since I have posted a recipe here, so here we go:

Blue Cheese and Bacon Grilled Cheese

• 1/2 c. blue cheese, crumbled

• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened

• 8 Slices Tomato

• 4 Slices Sourdough Round

• 2 T. butter, softened

• 4 slices bacon, cooked crisp

In a small bowl, blend blue cheese and cream cheese. Butter one side of each slice of bread.

Spread the cheese mixture on the non-buttered side of 4 bread slices. Cut bacon slices in half and place 2 halves on top of each blue cheese- topped slice. Add tomatoes. Cover with remaining bread, buttered side out.

Place sandwiches on an electric griddle heated to 275 degrees or in a skillet heated on medium. Cook 4-5 minutes per side, or until bread is golden brown and cheese is melted.

Enjoy!

Thank you to Grilled Cheese Social for the insperation :)

Cio!

I dont want to work this hard.

Why does everything have to been so hard? I know, Im just whinney. But I have one day off this week from both jobs, have no money and am working a few doubles. I hardly even have time to see Haily, which I need to do.

The pets are going well. Castor has been bad lately. REALLY bad. He bolted into the hall a few days ago, and ran up and down yowling and not letting me catch him. Jen tried to help but he ran from her to. Then he started jumping at random doors and yowling louder. I finally caught him and he was super panicy.

I havnt been cooking. Its been so hot I just cant do it. I lied, I did make some AMAZING grilled cheese sandwiches. I used some grinder bread (wide flat bread thats soft and doughy) slathered it with dijon and covered with colby jack mix. I then added some tomato slices and toasted to perfection. Actually I sorta burned it, but they were delish and lasted two days of lunches :)