Turkey and Apple Grilled Cheese

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Apr 192013
 

Turkey and Apple Grilled Cheese | My Little Gourmet

So apparently last week was National Grilled Cheese Day in the states and I missed it. How humiliating! 🙂 To make up for this mistake I decided to make us some grilled cheesies this week. But not just any grilled cheese, no, a turkey and gouda grilled cheese topped with some tart apple slices. Sooo good!

Turkey and Apple Grilled Cheese | My Little Gourmet

After making our sandwiches, I realized that this was Arik’s very first grilled cheese ever and right after eating it, he wanted his very first second grilled cheese ever. Go figure. For the cheese I used a mild gouda and the apple was a pink lady. These are nice and tart and paired perfectly with the melted gouda. Along with the sandwiches I made a roasted tomato soup, which according to Arik, who chose to have about 3 spoonfuls, paled in comparison to the grilled cheese. Oh well, more soup for me!

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Turkey and Apple Grilled Cheese
 
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 2 slices of whole wheat bread
  • 1 slice of turkey
  • 1-2 slices of cheese (we used Gouda)
  • a few slices of your favorite kind of apple (we used pink lady)
  • butter
Instructions
  1. Heat a pan over medium heat.
  2. Spread some butter on one side of each of the bread slices.
  3. Put one bread slice in the pan buttered side down, top it with the turkey, cheese and apple slices, and cover it with the other slice of bread, buttered side up.
  4. Once the cheese begins to melt and the bread turns golden brown, flip the sandwich and allow the other side to brown.

 

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Pinwheels with Turkey, Cheese, Avocado and Cucumber

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Feb 262013
 

Turkey, Cheese, Avocado and Cucumber Pinwheels

As promised, here is another lunch idea for the little ones (it took a bit longer, I know). That in no way though, means that I haven’t been on the search for ideas. No, no, I’ve been busy and found quite a bit of inspiration on Pinterest. Once I actually get around to trying out the recipes and not just pinning them, I will report back. Why do I feel like I am in trouble? 🙂

Turkey, Cheese, Avocado and Cucumber Pinwheels

These pinwheels were actually just something I made randomly to use up stuff we had in the fridge, but they turned out to be one of Arik’s favorite lunches. Now we have to have these at least 3 times a week or else…  So I wanted to be sure to share this simple alternative to a sandwich with you all. Sometimes I don’t use avocado, or I’ll use tomato instead of cucumber, or both; as you can see there is no real set way to make these, so you can just let your creative juices flow. Enjoy!

Turkey, Cheese, Avocado and Cucumber Pinwheels

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Turkey, Cheese, Avocado and Cucumber Pinwheels
 
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Serves: 1-2
Ingredients
  • 1 large whole-wheat tortilla
  • 1 tablespoon cream cheese or
  • ½ avocado, mashed up
  • 2-3 slices of turkey
  • 1-2 slices of cheese of your choice
  • 1 small piece of cucumber, peeled and cut into strips
Instructions
  1. Spread cream cheese or mashed up avocado (or both) on the tortilla.
  2. Place turkey and cheese slices on top.
  3. Lay the cucumber strips about 1 in. from the edge of the tortilla and begin to roll up.
  4. Roll up the entire tortilla and cut into ½ in wide pinwheels.
Notes
One large tortilla will make about 10 pinwheels.

 

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Tuna Salad

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Jan 182013
 

Tuna Salad Sandwich

Lunch at our house is nowhere near as diverse as our dinners. More often than not (ok, just about every day) Arik will get a cheese sandwich (he is absolutely obsessed with cheese) with some tomato and cucumber slices. If I’m feeling really crazy then we’ll have the left-overs from dinner the night before. As you can see, my lunch menus need some work. That is why I’ve made it my goal for the new year to gather lots of easy and delicious lunch ideas which, if they pass the Arik Taste Test, I will tell you guys about here.

As I started to brainstorm different lunch ideas, this tuna salad, which I used to eat when I was a kid, popped into my head. My mom used to always make this for my brothers and me, although she used mayonnaise. I decided to try this recipe out on Arik, but I substituted the mayo with greek yogurt. Everyone really liked it and I even liked it better than my childhood version…sorry mom. 🙂

Tuna Salad Sandwich

The recipe is for 1 can of tuna, but I just ended up doubling it so we would have enough for a few days. Our favorite way to eat this tuna salad is on toasted whole-wheat bread with a crisp leaf of lettuce (keeps the bread from getting soggy) and of course a slice of cheese for Arik’s sandwich. I hope you all enjoy and now I’m off to hunt for lots of new and delicious lunch ideas. If you don’t want to wait until I get around to writing a post on my finds (I tend to be a little slow :)) then you can follow my findings on Pinterest…and if you’ve got some great lunch ideas and recipes of your own I would love to hear about them.

Tuna Salad
 
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Serves: 3
Ingredients
  • 1 6 oz. can of tuna in water, drained
  • 1 small stalk of celery, chopped finely
  • 1 medium pickle, chopped finely
  • ½ tart apple (I used a Pink Lady), chopped finely
  • 2-3 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 3 tablespoons greek yogurt
  • salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
  1. Combine the drained tuna and all of the chopped ingredients in a medium bowl and mix thoroughly.
  2. Add the lemon juice and yogurt, mix well and season with salt and pepper.
Notes
We like it best served on whole wheat toast.

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