Toasted Summer Sandwich

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I haven’t been slacking on my experiments with easy summer recipes. I just haven’t been having any success to blog about. But this (for lack of a more creative title) Toasted Summer Sandwich, was SO yummy and SO good that my numerous failures now feel vindicated. It got a 5 out of 5!

✓ Local, seasonal, natural ingredients
✓ Simple To Cook
✓ Simple To Clean
✓ Tasty
✓ Vegetarian

Easy Toasted Summer Sandwich

• Loaf of sourdough bread
• 2 avocados
• 3/4 lb of block cheese (we used a raw milk medium cheddar)
• 2 or more tomatoes
• greens of your choice (we used arugula)
• yellow mustard

Super Easy Directions:

We sorta smashed/creamed the avocado before spreading it over one slice of the sourdough bread. Topped that with tomato slices and then the cheese. I put the whole sandwish in the oven on broil for about 3 minutes on each side, or until the cheese was melted and the bread was toasted. When we took it out we spread the mustard and put on the greens.

Our verdict:

Okay so our greens weren’t in season but something like dandelions or Malabar spinach could be used. And our avocados weren’t as local as I’d like although someone did tell me a state away (CA) still counts as local (Really?) and they are sold at our farmer’s market. The whole thing was very easy to clean and using the broiler for such a short amount of time didn’t seem to affect the temperature in the kitchen. Heating the raw cheese sorta defeats the purpose of raw cheese but it was still sooo good. Even Zeb liked it! And one of these days I’ll obtain a sourdough starter and become a World Famous Sourdough Bread Maker to make this truly homemade. For real.

Okay, it’s not award winning. It might even be pretty darn boring to a lot of people. But I didn’t burn it, gag on it or see any wrinkled noses at the table, and all three of us were fighting over the last one, so I’m considering this a serious score. And it really was yummy!