Croque-Monsieur

I felt like having this when I came home from work.

A delicious oven-baked sandwich.
This is a version of a treat my mom made sometimes. She always baked it in the oven. I found some recipes similar, where they fry them in a pan. I'm sure it would work, but it wouldn't be like mom's.

WHAT YOU NEED:

- 2 slices of bread
- Some ham
- 2 slices of cheese. Whichever one you like. I recommend either Swiss or Mozzarella.
- 1 egg
- Honey Mustard (optional)


Pre-heat the oven at 350F

Spread the mustard over the bread.
Put the cheese over the slices of bread and add the ham. Close the sandwich

Scramble the egg with a fork in a bowl. Soak both sides of the closed sandwich in it.

In an oven-proof plate, put in the oven on the middle rack.

Leave for about 15 minutes. Just keep checking that it isn't burning and that the bread turns a nice golden colour.

Just out of the oven

When it's done, take out and enjoy!

Mmmmmmm! Tasty and warm!

Cheese Blintzes

Looking at ideas for a potluck, I found this on allrecipies.com and it looked interesting and different.

Cheese Blintzes recipe is here.

They don't seem like true blintzes, since it uses a shortcut of sliced bread. But it seemed pretty easy as a finger food and I like trying new tastes.


Using an entire loaf of white bread, cut off the crusts for each slice.

TIP: Save the crusts to make a meatloaf with some ground beef.

Cutting off the crusts

Next you flatten each slice with a rolling pin. I don't have one yet, so I use a large bottle.
Works just as well!

Flattened bread slices

Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and set aside.

Sugar and Cinnamon mixture

Mix the room temperature cream cheese, milk and vanilla in a large separate bowl.

Filling mixed

Spread the filling generously on each slice and roll up. Cut off the ends if you want to make it look nice. I also cut each piece in two, so they would be smaller.

Filling spread


Blintz rolled up with the ends cut off

The whole batch

Dip each blintz in melted butter and roll in the sugar cinnamon mixture.

The video cuts a little bit short. I ran out of memory in the card. You get the idea though.

Put all the blintzes on a cookie sheet. I love parchment paper. So easy for no sticking!!!

Prepared to go into the oven

Put into the pre-heathed oven at 350F for 10 minutes.

Coming out of the oven

Serve them with a dollop of sour cream. They're not an overly sweet desert. A little bit tart.

EDIT: They went like CRAZY! Everyone seemed to love them. And they never knew that the cream cheese and the sour cream were low-fat. Shhhhhh! ;)