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My Favorite Grilled Cheese

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

Posted by melandjoycook in Meals in one, Simple meals

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avocado, bread, cheddar, cheese, cream cheese, grilled, sandwich

I’ve been eating grilled cheese like this for about ten years now and often forget that most people don’t add extras like I do.

Eating becomes a challenge when you are taking care of a newborn. Because I am breastfeeding, I have to incorporate healthy foods throughout my day.
This has been my “go-to” when I only have a few minutes to cook but want to feel full and satisfied.

Here ‘s what you need:
2 slices of whole wheat bread
2 slices of cheddar cheese
1 avocado (sliced)
1 tomato (sliced)
1 teaspoon of butter

I buttered one side of each slice of bread and put the butter side down on a hot pan on medium low heat.

Each slice of bread gets a slice of cheese. One piece of bread gets the avocado and the other gets the tomato.

The two slices of bread are cooking simultaneously (open faced) because this grilled cheese is so thick that it’s too hard to flip.

Once the cheese has melted, I place one slice of bread onto the other so that I can enjoy all of the ingredients in every bite.

*Please note that this sandwich is also good cold and great for picnics.
 The ingredients do not take up a lot of room, can be easily assembled and you can usually find the ingredients in any country.
 You can use the exact same ingredients or you can use a fresh baguette and Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

 Mel and I have eaten this sandwich quite a bit when exploring a new city because it is easy to share with someone and inexpensive!

Joy

Welcome to our lunch club!

23 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by melandjoycook in Welcome to The Lunch Club

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club, cook, food, food blog, friend, kitchen, lunch, lunch club, melandjoy, sandwich, thelunchclub, world

A lunch club across two continents, linking two friends together through their love of food and good company. We will be sharing recipes and tips on how to make good food whilst saving money and making friends at work. Through MELANDJOYTHELUNCHCLUB you will get snippets of our lives, Joy works for a consultancy agency in Chicago and Mel works for a charity in London. Our lives are very different but food is one of our common links. We COOK and we LOVE IT.

We try and meet twice a year in different places around the world. During our trip to Amsterdam in October we started talking about food (surprise!) and realised that we both have lunch clubs at work and they had so many things in common. We take proper breaks from our desks at lunch, save money as we don’t buy a sandwich every day, only bring food in every other day and become the talk of the kitchen with our yummy lunches. It’s great fun and it can’t be bad if it’s healthy (well, not always) and saves you money!

Mel and Joy

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