Egg-cellent Egg Salad

I am in NO way, shape, or form an egg salad girl.  My husband likes it.  I never have made it. I take that back.  I did make it once.  It just tasted like nasty mush to me.  Now.  I like hard boiled eggs, A LOT.  I dig mayo.  But something about the combination together was just plain icky.  So I never made it again.

Then one day I was on Pinterest.  Oh Pinterest.  You shall be the death of me.  

While I was on there I found a recipe for Avocado, Spinach, Egg Salad.  I like avocado.  I like spinach.  But I don't like egg salad.

So I saved the recipe as one of the 9,000 bookmarks on my computer.  This was months ago.

Yesterday I got brave.  REAL brave and I am SUPER glad I did.  This stuff is YUMMY!  Maybe it is the exclusion of the mayo that does it, or the addition of the yummy avocado, or the nice onion roll I put it on.  Either way...I am making this bad boy again!

  

Ingredients:

• 7 large, hard boiled eggs
• 1/2 cup plain Greek Yogurt  (4oz)
• 2 avocados
• 1 stalk celery, chopped well
• 1 cup baby spinach, chopped into small pieces
• Red pepper flakes to taste, I like spice.  I had a heavy hand with this
• Some form of yummy bread.  I used an onion roll
• More baby spinach to put in the sandwich

Directions:

1. Hard boil your eggs, cool, and peel.
2. In a large bowl mash together the eggs and the yogurt.  Season with salt and pepper.  Set aside.
3. In a second bowl, mash the avocados well and season with a bit more salt and pepper.
4. Mix the avocado mixture into the egg mixture.
5. Chop your celery and spinach.  Add to the mixture.
6. Sprinkle on some of the red pepper flakes, if you want.
7. On your bread put down a bed of the baby spinach and flop some of the egg salad on top.  Flop of course is a very technical term and should be used with only the greatest of care.  

Enjoy!!!

Recipe from We Are Not Martha 

Sloppy Joe Grilled Cheese

WHY did I never think of this before??  I like sloppy joes.  I LOVE grilled cheese.  Perfect combo!  Thank you Pinterest for feeding my comfort food obsession!

 So.  I did not use a nonstick pan. VERY BAD IDEA.  This sucker will stick and stick HARD.  That is why the bottom piece looks a bit wonky.  But this sandwich was SO rocking I still posted it.  Yeah...it is THAT good.

Ingredients:

• buns
• cheddar - shredded
• salted butter
• sloppy joe meat at room temperature

Tools necessary:

• NONSTICK PAN
• straw
• spatula

Directions:

 1.  Get your bun.  The original recipe used brioche.  My husband bought these.  Don't 
      know what type they are, but you get the idea.  Large thick buns.
2.  Slice the bun in half and then on the top part, cut off the very top.  Make sense? Eat 
     or discard the top. You want the bottom and the middle.

3.  Get your straw and poke holes in it.  Lots and lots of little tiny straw holes. Poke them
     in the top and bottom.  This is where the cheese will leak out of.  The more holes, the
     better.

4.  Top with cheese.

5.  Then meat on top and then more cheese.

6.  Then you want to take the bottom part of the bun and flip it over.  So the soft inside
     is on top, make sense?

7.  Butter both sides of the bread and put it on the pan.  You want to cook it on LOW 
    heat.Slowly brown it and the cheddar cheese will squirt out the holes and make the 
    bread have a crispy cheese crust on it.  NOM NOM NOM.  Each side will take about 7 
    minutes.This is definitely a knife and fork sandwich.

Enjoy!

Original recipe from The Grilled Cheese Social