I love celery!! The taste, malady the crunch, the smell, yum! I know nutritionally its lacking, but the flavor is undeniable. It adds so much to most dishes that most people probably take it for granted. We use it as an appetizer with cream cheese or peanut butter, as a garnish for color, or to stop the heat from a chicken wing, even adding that crispness to stuffing. Just to name a few. But a celery soup, is a great way to celebrate a sometimes through away vegetable. It’s bursting with flavor and richness that any creamed soup could want. Celery has an important roll in most soups so why not let it shine on its own? I recently had some left over and decided to make my own soup, and I was glad I did. I read up on some recipes and I didn’t have everything they were asking for, so I decided to go with my gut and make my own version. Enjoy!
I love taking leftovers and reworking them into something else. Fried chicken into chicken salad, symptoms roasted veggies into soup, order tortilla chips and salsa into chilaquiles con huevos and the list goes on. I learned this from my father who would take the previous nights dinner and make it part of breakfast. It was completely common to have spaghetti and eggs or enchiladas and eggs in the morning. I have taken that one step further and turn leftovers not only into breakfast but lunch or dinner. I know a lot of people do this especially if your a parent or a chef. I find it to be a fun challenge and really get into it. You may recall a posting where everything was round. All leftovers. If I’ve made you brunch or you’ve come over to a bbq, cure there is a good chance some part of it was a leftover. My latest is was very simple. Curried corn that had previously been grilled con on the cob. I just cut the corn off the cob added curry powder, lime juice, red onion, a seeded jalapeno, salt, pepper and some melted butter. Simple, easy and a crowd pleaser.
Adapted from when we were camping. We used leftovers but you can make it at home with a frying pan or a frying pan on your electric grill. I prefer cast iron.
Ingredients
8 sandwich rolls
1 Hot Salami or hard cured meat of your choice
1 package of Campari tomatoes
8 oz of Irish cheddar cheese
Instructions
Cut rolls in half lengthwise.
Cut tomatoes in half, ask set aside
Slice cheese, advice set aside
Slice salami and set aside
Put 4 slices of salami in pan or on grill
Cook for a minute or two on each side
Put 4 tomatoes in same pan or on grill skin side up
Cook for about a minute
Turn tomatoes over
Cluster tomatoes and salami together with a couple slices of cheese
Cook for a couple minutes, capsule cheese should just start to melt
Put half of a roll on top and cover for a minute or two till cheese melts
Take spatula and remove from grill or pan and plate bread side down.
Do not smash tomatoes, as the juice is key to keeping sandwich from being dry
Careful this can be a bit messy
So you may have to scoop melted cheese that tries to slip away
Serve immediately.
If you have a big enough pan or grill you can do more then one at at time
Just be careful to keep ingredients in separate clusters for each roll
Notes
You can add some fresh cut Basil on top at the end or some hot sauce, Kalamata olives, or thin sliced red onions.
Beach camping has finally arrived. A little late, but it is here and we are so excited!!! Here are a few pics from our little adventure. Hope you like them. And for those of you who want to know. Our first night, we had salmon steaks, asparagus and mashed potatoes for dinner. Our second day, breakfast was scrambled eggs, bacon and new red potatoes boiled in sea water. Lunch we had Spam musubi, dinner was vegetable chilli that we added hot salami to, with a side of grilled corn and for desert, Jello chocolate pudding cups!!! Our last day if we have any leftovers we incorporate them into the meals. Breakfast was the usual eggs and bacon but with mashed potato’s. For lunch we had grilled cheese with cucumber and cherry tomato sandwiches. But, since we had left over salami………… Jason grilled the salami and cherry tomatoes, put some cheese and bread on top for amazing upside down grilled sandwiches!! Of course he was nice enough to turn them right side up when it was time to eat – just like mini beach pizzas !
With our first camping excursion over we look forward to the next. So until then we will post more of what summer in NYC is all about.
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