Il formaggio cotto ai ferri col pomodoro e la pancetta (thanks to Bearfan)

[Stinky The Clown]

Bearfan, you have far more patience than I. I am trying to mimic one of your posts, complete with those great pictures. In the end, I enlisted Sparkly to take the pictures while I did the work ... and then we switched roles. This takes a lot more planning than my feeble little brain may be capable of doing.

This is a variation on an earlier thread that I think I called "Soup and Sammiches for Grownups" The sandwiches are very simple. Sliced baguettes with Brie and tomato. We like to pump them up a bit. He's what we did for dinner tonight:


You need a baguette, some sliced tomatoes, cheese, and bacon. The cheeses we used tonight were Brie and Saga (a Brie-like cheese with blue in it .... sorta a cross between Brie and Gorgonzola). The bacon (actually, flat pancetta) is cooked crisp. I did it in the microwave.


Slice the baguette into four pieces and then cut each one open. Don't leave a "hinge"; cut all the way through.


Lay the cheese on the bread and put the tomatoes on the cheese.


Put a generous amount of pepper on the tomatoes.


I add bacon to mine. Sparkly doesn't eat meat so she just enjoys the smell of the cooked bacon.


Put them on a medium grill oiled with a bit of olive oil. Start 'em on the bottom side of the bread. Allow them to brown a bit. We also had soup. I had leftover Beef Barley that I made a while ago and froze. Sparkly had Minestrone.


When the bottom of the bread is brown, turn 'em all over. Once brown on both top and bottom, plate 'em up.


Mangiare e piacere!

I am now so full I feel like bursting!

[eleny]

1. "Baleine" in the blue container

Whazzat?

And your recipe for dinner with the pictures came out just great! I love what bearfan started. Soemtimes I start dinner and think - where's my digital? - nope! You both did good tonight and I thank you for the peek into your cocina!

[Stinky The Clown]

2. The Baleine is sea salt

I'm kind of a salt nut. I use fine and coarse sea salts and kosher salt. We have regular salt, too, but don't use it much.

And as always ....... La mia cucina è la sua cucina. Come visit any time!

[eleny]

4. I'm glad that you mentioned being into salt!

Maybe I'll start a new thread on salt because I have a question that's been bugging me for a long time.

[bearfan454]

3. Those sandwiches look real yummy.

I made hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill outside.