Heirloom Tomato Sandwich
Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest. This one falls in that category, but the secret is to use the best possible ingredients you can find. I do not recommend this recipe in January but only in summer and early fall when tomatoes have celebrity status at the farmers market. You can go hog wild and make your own pesto for this, but oftentimes I use the homemade-quality pesto at my grocery store or farmers market.
One baguette
Goat cheese or cream cheese, softened
Basil pesto
2-3 heirloom tomatoes, thickly sliced
Salt and pepper
Goat cheese or cream cheese, softened
Basil pesto
2-3 heirloom tomatoes, thickly sliced
Salt and pepper
Slice your baguette horizontally and then vertically into 3 or 4 sandwich-sized piece. Slather a layer of goat cheese or cream cheese on the bottom halves. Next, spread a layer of pesto. Lay tomato slices on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover the scrumptious filling with the other halves of the baguette. With a napkin handy, bite down on this heavenly creation. Share the other sandwiches, or not. Enjoy.
YIELD: 3-4 sandwiches depending on how big you like them
brilliant, my friend.
xo
@Mara: Thank you, my friend.
I'm sleepy at Noon, wide awake at Midnight. Always have, won't fight it.
I have 9 – 100yr old+ apple trees on a lot up a valley in Missoula. This year, the apples exploded. I'm told that because June was so wet, we were rewarded with big apples.
They are a McIntosh apple, complete with wrinkled and faded reds and grees and worms holes, but no worms.
I picked one tree clean on Sunday, and the total amount of apples filled TWO wheelbarrows! And Ive got 8 more!(?)
There's kinda time pressure because bears come down into the valley in the early fall to feast on apples, pumpkins, cats and little girls. So the sooner we can get the apples picked, the fewer trips into the valley bears will make.
Erin has made two huge pies with double apples. Ive eaten three apples a day for over a week. We're borrowing an apple press on sunday for juicy juice.
Would you like two of them? (Now that I look, they look like the apple on your banner…)
Yummy! With sandwiches like that, your kids don't need chips or any beverage other than water.
Even though I've been up since 5am and have gotten in an hour long Yoga class and some e-mails (but surely you were referring to another friend?) please don't look inside my sons' lunch boxes today as they are loaded with a bevy of snack size bags from Costco. I am inspired!! My sons won't know what hit them when I pack their next lunch, and I'll blame Auntie Carrie's blog on the blatant lack of sugary snacks and chips. But they'll live longer and feel better, so thank you. Your writing is amazing and loved the story – teared up at the end picturing the little dude waiting patiently to finish his story on missles. Beautiful!
@Joe: Frothing over your good fortune. Please send apples my way now.
@Angie: Thank you.
@Julie: Thank you. Glad you were inspired and definitely….blame it on me.