Delishytown
Cooking is fun. Eating is funner. I cook, photograph and write these recipes.
Everything I post on this blog I make from scratch using fresh wholesome ingredients.. I've been cooking since I was a little kid.
My recipes are based on trial and error, along with studying cookbooks, family recipes, blogs and cooking shows.
Some of the veggies and herbs I use are grown in my garden. Yay sustainability!
I'm working on making my yard into an edible landscape. It's really fun to go out in the garden and pick your veggies for dinner!
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I’m gonna be grilling fruits all summer, and serving it with ice cream too (or frozen yogurt) :D YAY for BBQ’s!!!!!
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Weekend Recipe: Vegetable Spring RollsThese super fresh spring rolls are stuffed with late spring vegetables, greens, and creamy, sesame-coated...
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- Those bananas you have sitting in the kitchen? They were picked three weeks ago.
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24 posts tagged sandwich
Baked Brown Sugar BLT with Kale Chips and Crudités
I made these delectable BLT’s with baked brown sugar bacon, small green and red striped garden tomatoes, and served them with homemade kale chips & crunchy delicious crudités on the side. This was so delicious! I look forward to home grown tomatoes all year long so I can have this sandwich. Yummmm.
This post is about cooking the bacon in the oven, with a little brown sugar and black pepper sprinkled on top. This way of cooking bacon is very easy, and it doesn’t mess up the stovetop. Yay for not having to clean something!
I like to use organic, nitrate free bacon. It’s more expensive, but much better for you, as far as eating bacon goes. Since I rarely eat bacon anyway, it’s worth it to buy the best I can get.
Heat oven to 375. Place bacon strips on a cookie sheet lined with foil. Sprinkle with about 1-2 tsp brown sugar and freshly ground black pepper. You don’t need to add salt because bacon is pretty salty already. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until crisp, turning once. Drain on paper towels.
While the bacon cooks, slice cucumbers, carrots, and celery into strips for crudités garnish.
On another cookie sheet, sprits olive oil spray and add freshly washed, dried, and stemmed kale. Spritz witha little more olive oil spray. Season with kosher salt, pepper, and smoked paprika. Toss the kale around on the cookie sheet to coat evenly. Bake for about 3-6 minutes at 375 until they crisp up. Keep a close eye on them because they cook pretty fast depending on how dry it is outside.
Toast whole wheat bread. Add a little mayo, salt and pepper, sliced garden tomatoes, lettuce, avocado slices, and the brown sugar bacon. Serve with the kale chips and crudités.
Yum!
Vegetarian Breakfast Sandwich with Tomatoes and Basil
This was a delicious breakfast! The carrots & basil were grown in our back yard.
Cook veggie sausage, fry an egg, top the cooked egg with a little grated cheddar cheese and let it melt. Toast some sourdough bread or any kind of bread you have. Serve with tomato slices and fresh chopped basil, salt and pepper. Garnish with carrot sticks and more basil. Yum!
Grilled Cheddar and Tomato on Sourdough
This was my delicious lunch, with a salad from the garden. It’s not a recipe so much as it is fresh tomato slices cooked into a grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough. I like to serve mine the way my friend Grace does, with Dijon mustard. Yum!
Curried Chicken Salad Sandwich
This is so yummy and is a great way to use up leftover chicken. My husband loved it!
Chop leftover cooked chicken into cubes. Mix 2 tblsp plain Greek style yogurt, 2 tblsp mayo, the juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/2 tsp rice vinegar, 1 tblsp honey, 1/2 tsp curry powder, celery salt and pepper, chopped celery, shredded carrot, 1/4 cup chopped onion and a small handful of raisins or chopped grapes. Serve on toasted sourdough bread with garden greens & a side of pickled giardiniera. You could also wrap this into sandwich wraps for a lighter version. Yum!
Chicago Dog with Everything
This was our delicious dinner tonight. We were in Chicago last weekend and brought these poppy seed buns back on the plane with us. They don’t make poppy seed buns in California. All our Chicago friends out here go crazy for “real” Chicago dogs. This was so good and worth the trouble of carrying poppy seed buns on the plane.
In Chicago this type of garnish is called “dragging it through the garden”. The celery salt is a key ingredient here and adds to the fresh garden taste.
Cook organic beef hot dogs in simmering water and dress with mustard, relish, chopped onions, sport peppers, (or your favorite pickled peppers), tomatoes, and celery salt*.
* I was out of celery salt so I made my own by grinding celery seed with kosher salt in the mortar and pestle. Yum!
Grilled Eggplant, Bell Pepper and Roasted Tomato Sandwich on Garlic Bread
This was our amazingly delicious lunch today made with the leftover ciabatta rolls (they came 6 to a package) from yesterday. The thing I’m happiest about is that I’m finally starting to learn how to use my camera in manual mode, thanks to my wonderful camera teachers.
Here’s how we made these veggie sandwiches:
First, make the rolls into garlic bread. Garlic, olive oil and foil help to freshen up the rolls. Crush 1 large garlic clove, mix it with 2 tblsp olive oil, salt and pepper and any fresh or dried herbs you like. I used a little chopped rosemary from the garden. Brush onto the cut sides of any bread or rolls. Place in foil packet in a hot oven for about 5 minutes. Then open the foil and open the rolls, face up and bake at 400 until toasted.
Slice some cherry tomatoes in half and place in a small casserole dish with a sprits of olive oil spray and salt and pepper. Bake with the bread at 400 until bubbly & cooked.
Heat a grill pan to high. Slice eggplants and season with some salt. In a few minutes you’ll see a little of the moisture come out. Brush away the salty moisture and blot with a paper towel. Slice onions. Quarter a bell pepper. Spray both sides of all the veggies with olive oil spray and season with fresh ground pepper. Sear on the hot grill pan, reduce the heat to med, cook on both sides, flipping occasionally to cook evenly. Remove to a plate.
Grate some of your favorite cheeses. We had queso fresco, cheddar and parmesan. Chop some lettuce or greens. I used red chard from the garden.
Layer the eggplant on the bottom, top with cheese and return to the oven to melt the cheese. Add the rest of the grilled veggies, the chopped greens and top with the roasted tomatoes. Drizzsle with a little balsamic vinegar. Yum!
Garlicky Chicken Sandwich with Swiss Cheese, Avocado and Sun Dried Tomatoes
This was our lunch today and features Romaine lettuce from the edible front yard garden. Yumm! This is easy, I bought all the other ingredients from TJ’s this morning, including the ciabatta rolls.
Heat a skillet to med high, add a little grape seed oil. Season boneless skinless chicken thighs with salt and pepper. Add the chicken pieces to the hot pan and don’t move them until they get a golden crust on the bottom. Crush 2 cloves garlic with a garlic press, spread the raw garlic on the uncooked side, flip and cover, leaving the lid off at the side to let some steam escape. Keep cooking until cooked through and the juices have reduced a little. About 10-15 minutes. Add chopped Swiss cheese and partially cover again until melted. Remove to a plate and let rest for a minute.
Cut ciabatta rolls in half and toast under the broiler or in a toaster oven being careful not to burn the tops of them like I did.
Slice avocados, shred lettuce. Spread a little mayo on the top bun, add some sun dried tomatoes, julienned or sliced if they aren’t already. Place the chicken on the bottom, add shredded lettuce and avocado. Season with salt and pepper. Yum!
Veggie Sausage and Egg Sandwich on Whole Wheat English Muffin w/ Cheddar, Avocado and Tomatoes
This is easy and delicious. I dressed these with a little mayo, Thousand Island would be nice too. Don’t forget the salt & pepper.
Have a great weekend everybody!
I’m posting this because people don’t talk about it enough. Grilled cheese with a big slice of tomato in the middle. The tomato gets extra juicy and hot while the cheese melts. It’s easy and delicious. Spread the word.
I hope you can see this, I accidentally had my camera on a setting that made my sandwich look all sexy and mysterious.
Meatloaf with Homemade Ketchup
Last night I was making this meatloaf & we were out of ketchup. I can’t make meatloaf without ketchup. I was too lazy to go to the store to buy some, but not too lazy to try making it from scratch. It came out delicious! I will always make homemade ketchup from now on!
Recipe for homemade ketchup: Chop 1 small onion, smash 3 cloves garlic. Saute in olive oil. Add 1 small can tomato paste, 3/4 cup water, 1/4 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, a dash of cinnamon and 2 allspice berries, 2 cloves, salt and pepper. Reduce to simmer until all the flavors come together. Adjust sweet / sour to taste by adding a little more vinegar or brown sugar as needed.
Meat loaf: Ground beef or turkey, mixed with finely chopped veggies including 1 chopped apple, 2 chopped carrots, 2 stalks celery, 1 onion, smashed garlic, red bell pepper, bread crumbs (soaked in milk), 2 eggs. Season with Worcestershire, 1/2 tsp mustard, a tblsp ketchup, salt, pepper, dried basil and fresh chopped parsley. Form into a loaf, cover with tons of ketchup and bake at 350 for 1 hour or more. Make enough extra for sandwiches the next day.
