Grilled Goat Cheese & Avocado Sandwich

I'm fairly well known, in my house anyway, to not thoroughly read a recipe, which could prove to be my undoing with this project. I saw the picture of this Pin and it looked delicious. I scanned the list of ingredients and bought everything at the grocery store I needed. Breakfast is our main meal of the day as I work later in the day. Usually my husband prepares it. He has quite a way with an egg and a spatula! The night before I told him it was my turn. He made some homemade bread for me that evening. Obviously this step is not truly necessary, there is plenty of fine bread available commercially, but call us pretentious, fresh home baked bread is mighty good. Anyway, morning broke (well, Nugget woke up) and I went to start our delicious sandwich.

Here is the original Pin:

Green Goddess Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I looked at the recipe again, and noticed that I hadn't seen the entire second half.  There was an elaborate recipe for herb pesto that was supposed to go on the sandwich.  Well... that wasn't going to happen, so I figured out what we had in the house.  I thought that we might have a jar of prepared pesto, but I was wrong.  I did find mustard that had basil in it. Done!

So I found my ingredients and put the sandwich together... bread, basil mustard, spinach, avocado and goat cheese.

I decided not to fry it.  I find that crumbly cheese always falls out of sandwiches. We have a super awesome George Foreman grill and used that instead.  Turned out great! Nicely brown minus the grease. Super simple and very delicious.  I suppose sometime I might try it with the herb pesto mentioned, but I kind of doubt it... maybe jarred pesto.

Even without the special pesto sauce I thought this turned out really nice.  It's an easy way to get veggies into breakfast or lunch without it feeling forced.  Nugget tried it and at first she wasn't really having it.  I think she probably thought the cheese was a bit sour, which it is, but she kept coming back for more and ended up eating quite a bit of it.

Cost: About the same of any ordinary sandwich. I used one avocado for 2 sandwiches and the small container of goat cheese I got was enough for 4 sandwiches.

Prep & Execution time: 10 minutes tops, from beginning to end.

Difficulty: Easy... although one day I'd like to learn how to make those pretty avocado slices instead of scooping it out with a spoon.

Aesthetic Appeal: Pretty, green sandwich with a nice golden crust.

Life Enhancement.  It enhances a life as much as you can expect from a sandwich.