Saturday Morning Snapshot
Cap 3 screenings have begun, time to go on the spoiler offensive…
State of the Blog
My Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes With Broccoli and Cheese Sauce were featured in a Redbook round up of slow cooker meals on their site this week. The caption they gave it cracked me up, and if you are looking for some super easy dinners, go check out the fantastic other recipes in that post!
On the blog, I posted one of my most made recipes, homemade panini. Fun fact about that post, I spent a ridiculously long time AGONIZING about whether Baking Mischief was going to be a site that said “panino” or “panini.” I went down a linguistic rabbit hole that included Reddit, cooking sites, Italian and English language forums, and more than one academic paper, hoping someone would just tell me what to do. No one would, so I went with my personal preference, fully aware that I’m probably on the wrong side of history with this one. Wednesday, things were much simpler with another easy green bean side, and Friday there were scones!
Next week is sandwich number two of our Hot Sandwich series, I do a magic trick with Nutella, and on Friday, turn that magic trick into something delicious.
Recipes/posts released this week were:
Easy Homemade Panini Without a Panini Press – Perfectly cooked panini, crunchy and toasted on the outside, warm, gooey, and cheesy on the inside, all without using a panini press!
Quick Green Beans With Bacon Side Dish – Fresh green beans with chopped bacon, tossed in bacon drippings make an easy, tasty, and surprisingly low-calorie side dish.
Glazed Jam Scones – Adorable buttermilk scones baked with your favorite jam inside and brushed with a buttery vanilla glaze.
Pop-culture Corner
The first wave of Captain America: Civil War screenings has started, and the minute I began to see early (good!) reactions in my Twitter feed, up went the Twitter and Chrome keyword blockers. I’m not usually a spoiler-phobe, but since I’ve read the comics and know what happens, I guess I really don’t want to know what happens.
The Rogue One teaser dropped. Whadja think? I’m a big fan of Felicity Jones and an even bigger fan of flowing capes, so for me, so far, so good.
Speaking of that Rogue One trailer, every time I peak outside of my perfectly curated Twitter bubble into the wider Twitterverse, the world feels like a completely garbage place.
Except for when I stumble upon tweets like this:
A message from an old friend. #Kingsman pic.twitter.com/n4HShWktIK — Taron Egerton (@TaronEgerton) April 7, 2016
Adorable buttermilk jam scones baked with your favorite jam inside and brushed with a buttery vanilla glaze.
I realized today as I was putting this post together, that for a blog that’s barely four months old, Baking Mischief sure does have a lot of tea-party ready recipes. There are my Perfectly Pretty Lemon Bars , my Sherlock Tea Bag Cookies , Victoria Sponge Cupcakes , etc.
Am I subconsciously trying to tell myself something? Am I as an adult trying to create on the blog, the perfect tea party I never had as a child? Who knows?
But guess what. I have another perfect tea party recipe for you today. Big shocker, I know.
These Jam Scones are just about the most adorable things to come out of my kitchen in a while and so tasty. They are my favorite basic buttermilk scone base baked up with the jam of your choice (I’m partial to raspberry) with a buttery vanilla glaze.
They can be served warm and gooey or cooled, with the glaze crunchy and set.
In the oven, the jam cooks down and becomes thick and syrupy and is the perfect complement to the soft, slightly crumbly scone.
I make these whenever I want a dessert that’s a little different and distribute the extras to various friends and family members. After the initial WTF is a jam scone response, they are always a hit.
Who knows, maybe someday, I’ll throw that tea party of five-year-old me’s dreams and serve these Jam Scones (and all those other aforementioned treats) to my guests.
Though to live up to my fantasies, the guest list would have to include at least one Disney princess, a muppet, and Rainbow Brite. So if anyone has any of their contact information, it would be much appreciated…
A grown up grilled cheese sandwich loaded with bacon, avocado, chicken, and pepper jack cheese.
True story: I didn’t learn how to make a proper classic grilled cheese sandwich until I was in my late teens. You need white bread and sliced american cheese to make perfect diner-style grilled cheeses and I was raised in a whole wheat and block cheddar household.
The day I finally got my hands on some individually wrapped, processed as heck cheese slices and melted them over the whitest of white bread, stands out as the first great grilled cheese milestone in my life.
The day I put together today’s recipe is the second.
There comes a time in all of our lives when we must put our childhood grilled cheese sandwiches behind us and graduate to something a little more interesting, grown up, and exciting, something like Spicy Bacon Avocado Chicken Grilled Cheese Sandwiches.
I’ve been making these sandwiches since college, and if I remember correctly, the thought process that went into making them was something like, let’s take everything I like and put it on one sandwich. And not to toot my own horn or anything, but that makes for a really good sandwich.
You start with a couple pieces of hearty bread. Texas toast is fantastic for this, but any good-quality white bread will do. Then you pile it with slices of avocado, chicken, tomatoes, a little mayo, a thick slice of pepper jack cheese, and bacon.
Ingredients
- ▢ 8 slices bacon
- ▢ 8 slices good-quality white bread
- ▢ 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- ▢ 12 ounces cooked chicken shredded and warm*
- ▢ 1 avocado sliced, room temperature and sliced
- ▢ 4 slices pepper jack cheese
- ▢ 1 large tomato optional, sliced
Instructions
- On a griddle or in a large skillet*, cook bacon until done and set aside.
- Spread mayonnaise over the bread and assemble sandwiches with bacon, chicken, avocado slices, optional tomato and pepperjack cheese.
- If you are going to cook the sandwiches in the bacon drippings, scrape or pour off all but about a tablespoon of grease, heat over medium heat and place sandwiches into the pan.
- If you don’t want to use the bacon drippings, wipe out grease and spread a very light coating of mayonnaise on both sides of the sandwiches before placing into the hot pan.
- Cook, flipping once, until both sides are browned and cheese is melted.
- Serve and enjoy.
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