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Hello! How was your weekend? We picked out our Christmas tree and got the house a little bit festive. First time to a u-cut tree farm!
Today’s recipe comes courtesy of my Secret Recipe Club assignment for the month The Hobo Kitchen… bites from a little kitchen in Hoboken. Ellie writes and shares fun and very comforting looking foods. For this month I definitely picked something fun to make from her blog!
Time for a question. Have you ever been instantly intrigued about a food? I have. I remember hearing about a burger with peanut butter on it and just had to try it. I thought the idea was so crazy! Turns out it is delicious and I would eat it again in a flash.
Ellie shared a similar meal, but instead of a burger it was a grilled cheese with bacon and peanut butter. Intrigued? I was! Now I’m not saying it’s the healthiest meal. At all. We’re topping high fat foods one on top of the other. I did have to serve mine up with a salad on the side because I knew my heart and stomach would thank me.
What was the verdict? Pretty dang good. I would definitely eat it again. I made one for my brother-in-law as well and he ate it and said it was ‘pretty good’ if I remember right, although he’s kind of hard to read. The peanut butter flavor comes through, and being a peanut butter obsessed person, I couldn’t help but be happy about that.
What do you think, would you try it? If you do, please let me know!
Peanut Butter Bacon Grilled Cheese
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 2 slices bacon, fully cooked and cut in half
- 1/2 cup grated white sharp cheddar, or your favorite melty cheese
- 2 slices bread (seedy preferred)
- butter, softened
Instructions
- Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. Spread the peanut butter on the other side, top the peanut butter with bacon slices and cheese, then the other peanut butter covered slice of bread, with the butter facing up.
- Place the ready but uncooked sandwich on a small skillet, turn the skillet to medium heat and cook for 5-6 minutes on one side or until golden brown. Flip and cook another 3-4 minutes until the second side is golden brown. Or follow your favorite grilled cheese cooking method.
Peanut Butter Bacon Grilled Cheese
Serves 1
Recipe slightly adapted from here
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- 2 slices bacon, fully cooked and cut in half
- 1/2 cup grated white sharp cheddar, or your favorite melty cheese
- 2 slices bread (seedy preferred)
- butter, softened
Directions
- Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. Spread the peanut butter on the other side, top the peanut butter with bacon slices and cheese, then the other peanut butter covered slice of bread, with the butter facing up.
- Place the ready but uncooked sandwich on a small skillet, turn the skillet to medium heat and cook for 5-6 minutes on one side or until golden brown. Flip and cook another 3-4 minutes until the second side is golden brown. Or follow your favorite grilled cheese cooking method.
Would you try a grilled cheese with peanut butter and bacon? What’s the strangest combo you have eaten? Do you have a Christmas tree up?!
Heather
I’m not sure if I’d go for the peanut butter, but bacon on grilled cheese sounds like a win!
This looks delicious. Visiting from SRC B! Happy Holidays.
I’m so glad you made this! I seem to forget my well-loved recipes so I’ll have to make this again! Thanks so much for your kind words. Love your pictures from the tree farm!
Ellie
I adore bacon and grilled cheese sandwiches – but I’m a little leery about the peanut butter, I’m not gonna lie. I’m just not sure how I feel about it. 🙂 But I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s fun to see new ideas!!
And yes – fake tree here, put up the Sat. after Thanksgiving.
OMG!!! Thank looks amazing!!!
Your tree looks amazing! We have a fake one because I’m allergic, but someday I want to go out and cut a tree for another family haha
This sandwich sounds great! I was planning on making homemade tomato soup this week, and I might have to give this a try!
Awww so sweet of you to want to cut one down for someone else! Let me know if you do try it 🙂
Wow! This sounds crazy! But I can definitely see how the flavors could work together. We do have our tree up!
Does Kay love putting ornaments on it? Hunter was stoked about it.
In my 50 years of life, I’ve never cut down my own Christmas tree, nor have I ever had a sandwich like this one! I have just added both to my bucket list!
Let me know when you cross them off your bucket list!
I’m definitely intrigued! Great choice. And I’m bad, my tree is not up; I was cooking for the blog all day!
We got our tree up much earlier this year, normally we’re much later!