Lunch Time: Soup and Sandwich!!

Prior to my transplant in 2010 I woke up every morning starving and ready to eat breakfast. Since then I don't know if it is due to all the medications I now take or what but I just can not eat a big breakfast. If Danny and I go for breakfast with his parents on the weekend sometimes the most I can handle is a bowl of grits and maybe a bagel but not much more.

Thats why I am pretty big into lunch and of course dinner! My usual standby is some sort of soup and sandwich combo with a little variety every once in awhile. I love making homemade soup but I haven't done that in awhile (I have actually been looking recently for a good ham/bean soup) so its the canned version I have been eating lately. 

The sandwich that I made for myself the other day is a sandwich actually made for me YEARS ago by my Aunt (my dads sister.) I think she just made it up....remember a few days ago me telling you how good my grandma was at cooking something out of nothing? Well my Aunt got that same awesome gift! Me.again.not so much....

Ingredients:
2 slices bread
Mayo
Cream cheese
Deli meat (ham, turkey, etc.)
1-2 Slices American cheese
2 Slices tomato
Salt and Pepper

Directions:

1. Toast Slices of bread.
2. Take a few slices of deli meat and top with the slices of cheese and heat in the microwave for about 30 sec. or just till the cheese is melty.
3. On the toasted bread, spread the cream cheese on one slice and the mayo on the other slice.
4. Place the meat/cheese on the slice with the mayo, then top that with the slices of tomato, salt and pepper to taste and then top that with the bread slice that has the cream cheese on it.
5. Slice in half and enjoy! 

I know it might sound a little strange but I love it and its something out of the norm of just a regular grilled cheese sandwich (which believe me I eat a lot of!)

YUM!!

And just because I think its cute, my owl soup bowl I got from my Mom for Xmas! 

Well, I am off to make dinner. Look at me with TWO blog post in one day....YAY!! :) 

Quick Snack

The other day while I was waiting for Danny to come home so I could start dinner (he worked later than usual) I was a little hungry but I didn't want to eat something real filling since dinner wasn't to far off the horizon. 

So, I opened up my trusty Macbook and went to my all time FAVORITE cooking blog For the Love of Cooking! I go on Pam's blog several times a week just to go over her many recipes to get different ideas on what I would like to make. She also takes amazing pictures of her food, something I really want to learn how to do better! 

I remembered that on one of my many trips to her blog I saw a simple recipe for what she calls Tomato and Basil Sandwich with a Twist. Its an open face sandwich on bagel thins which I just love because I love bagels but sometimes a whole regular size bagel is just to much bread...the bagel thin is a perfect size for an afternoon snack or a light lunch! 

Anyway, I didn't have all the exact ingredients she used but it was close enough! If you want her original recipe you can go see it here. 

Tomato and Basil Sandwich with a Twist!
Ingredients:

• 1 whole wheat bagel thin, toasted
• Philadelphia cream cheese (as much or as little as you like) 
• 1 tomato, sliced
• Basil leaves
• Kosher salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Toast your bagel then spread the cheese evenly over both slices of bagel.
2. Top the cheese with basil leaves then the tomato slices.
3. Season the top with salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste. Serve immediately. Enjoy.

**I have in the past made this with the everything bagel and it was FANTASTIC I just didn't have that on hand this time! 

Enjoy and have a great day!! :)