Hearty Grilled Cheese

So I'm one of the many who LOVE a good grilled cheese. I have been getting lots of tomatoes lately from my dad (wasn't able to grow any at my house due to squirrels this year). I have tried different cheese and different bread. The thing I love about grilled cheese is you can make it all your own, and add new things if you usually just do cheese inside.

The other night I made this with Mozzerella and American cheese, and put Tomato inside.

This weekend I made it with Colby Jack and Swiss Cheese, put tomato and Turkey inside....man were both versions tasty!!


Ingredients:

2 Slices of bread (your choice, I usually use white or wheat, whatever we have)
Cheese of your choice, there are so many to choose from!!
Any other ingredients....I tried the tomato and that was really good
Ham, turkey or roast beef if you want meat
Butter/Margarine


Just take the bread, and butter it.
Place one pc butter side down in a hot pan (usually on like medium)
Place 1st type of cheese on bread
Place other fillings on cheese, then top with more cheese
Place other pc of bread, butter side up.



Cook til golden brown, then flip (you want to hold onto the sandwich while you flip it). Then finish that side til golden brown....and all cheese is melted.

Then just cut and eat. Yum! What a great fall treat for this cool weather, and it uses up all those fresh tomatoes too! Enjoy!

Cream of Broccoli Soup

Sorry for the lack of food blogging lately....we've just been so busy and I haven't had time to add anything in a while. Here is a good one I tried last night though, needed something hearty for dinner, it was great! Thank You Better Crocker!




Recipe for Cream of Broccoli soup:

1-1/2 to 2 lbs Broccoli (I used some frozen, some fresh)
2 Cups Water
3/4 Cup chopped celery
1/2 Cup chopped Onion
2 Tb Butter
2 Tb Flour
2-1/2 Cups chicken broth
1/2 tsp salt
Dash of pepper
Dash of Ground nutmeg
1/2 Cup whipping Cream (I used whole milk)
Shredded cheese for topping


1. Cut broccoli into 1 inch pcs.

2. Add broccoli, celery and onion to the 2 cups boiling water, simmer 10 minutes until tender.

3. Carefully place broccoli mixture in blender, cover and blend until smooth

4. In 3 Qt. suacepan, melt butter over Medium heat. Stir in flour, cook while stirring constantly until mixture is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat, stir (whisking is easier) in chicken broth....boil and stir 1 minute.

5. Stir in Broccoli mixture, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Heat just to boiling, then stir in whipping cream. Heat until hot, do not let boil!! Serve soup topped with cheese.

We used Mozzarella Cheese....made it really tasty!

Danielle's Coffee Cake

Who doesn't like Coffee cake? My husband's sister Danielle made this for Breakfast on our Girls weekend, then made it for Labor day too. It's so good, you could eat 1/2 the pan easily.


Coffee Cake
(this one you want to double if you're using a 9X13 pan)

For Cake:
1 Cup Flour
1/4 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Buttermilk
1/3 Cup Margarine (we like to call this OLEO in honor of our Grandmothers)
1 Egg

For Topping:
1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp Cinnamon

For Glaze:
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
3-4 tsp Milk
1/4 tsp Vanilla


Grease and Flour 9X13 Pan. You can use a 9X9 pan as well, then just make a single batch of this, which is what this recipe states.

Combine all Cake ingredients, and blend at Low speed until moistened. Beat 3 minutes at Medium speed, and spread into pan.






Blend topping ingredients together and sprinkle over the batter




Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 Minutes, or until tester comes out clean

Blend Glaze ingredients until smooth, then drizzle over top of Baked Cake.

Serve with any other breakfast accompianments, I would like to suggest the Bacon and Sausage that comes from Thielan Meats here in MN. It is Amazing meat!

Fruit Pizza (somewhat seasonal)

Back from Labor Day...my sisters in law made some good eats that I wanted to share. Stuff we have often up at the cabin, and is super tasty!!



Fruit Pizza is super easy to make and goes fast, so make it for small crowd or plan on making 2!


Fruit Pizza Recipe
(this is for a single batch)

1 Roll of Sugar cookie dough-let sit out so it's soft
1 Package of cream cheese
Powdered sugar to taste
Fruit/Berries of your liking


Roll out the Sugar cookie either on a cookie sheet or pizza sheet. We always place tin foil underneath for baking, and it makes it easy to clean up when the pizza is gone. Follow baking instructions on cookie dough, remove from oven and cool completly.

Mix the cream cheese with Powdered sugar until it's as sweet as you want it. You don't need it too sweet since the fruit really adds the flavor!

Now just arrange your sliced berries/fruit on the pizza, cut and enjoy! Yummmm!!