Sunday, March 17, 2013

Sweaty Cheese

Sweaty Cheese, Sweaty Cheese what are they doing to you?
Sweaty Cheese, its not your fault
that when you melt you sweat.

(please oh please be humming that in the tune of Smelly Cat, or that would be awkward) And by sweat, I think I mean condensing droplets of oil, not actual salty water. Sorry, totally grossing everyone out here. But I swear! It tastes delicious!
Whole grain bread with avocado, runny egg, sweaty cheese, and some pepper and hot sauce for fun.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Kitchen Ban

Back home from Spring Break.
Banned from the kitchen until I finish taking the MCATs.

In the mean time, I have still somehow managed to learn how to cold brew coffee, which I think counts as a food project. Ice coffee is just infinitely better than hot coffee. I'll maybe talk about coffee and caffeine at a later date.

This is more of a question of what exactly constitutes a kitchen ban? Obviously baking is out of the question, but mandatory/necessary meals like dinner definitely count as an exception to that ban. Maybe I'm taking advantage of this and getting particularly adventurous with my meals because I just made this for dinner--Dutch cheese, raspberries, mixed greens on toasted multigrain artisan bread with dijon mustard slathered to one side.
I have never really been a huge fan of fruit/cheese mixes especially warm. Granted, I could live off of goat cheese/granny smith apples when both are served cold or at room temperature. But hot fruit and cheese? ick (this may just be a result of a poorly conceived brie/apple puff pastry project). However, recently I was enchanted by a Caseus Cheese Truck special that consisted of a raw cow milk/jam combination that stole my heart. When I say stole, I probably mean it literally and figuratively. Literally, I may have had a mini-heart attack after eating that much gooey cheesy goodness.

Luckily, this sandwich did NOT give me a heart attack. It was tres petit (to account for my study snacking throughout the day), and was a perfect balance of toasted, warm bread, melty cheese and crisp raspberries and leafy greens.This is definitely not a sandwich to be eaten in excess and relished in like Caseus', but you know, we can't have heart attacks every.single.day.