It’s the third Thursday of the month and regular readers of this blog know that means it’s time for the Improv Challenge. For any of you stopping by for the first time, the Improv Challenge is a monthly cooking challenge that involves two ingredients and lots of imagination. The bloggers who participate must use the month’s assigned ingredients in one new-to-their-blog dish. This month, we are channeling our inner disco with Peaches and Herb.
At first, I thought I’d either make a fruit salsa using cilantro and peaches or else I’d opt for baking up some lavender peach cake. In the end, however, a little jar of pesto on my shelf caught my eye. After doing an internet search, I found that I am not the first to pair peaches and pesto. It’s a popular pizza combination. Who knew?
I opted to make a few gluten free grilled cheese sandwiches using my favorite gf bread: Udi’s Whole Grain. One of the sandwiches pictured has deli turkey and the other is meatless. Both were beyond extraordinary. I was sad when that batch of peaches was gone. Lucky for me, one of my local grocery stores had peaches on sale yesterday for $.69/lb. I have a bunch ripening in a paper sack and at least a couple are going to find themselves next to pesto again.
Peach and Pesto Grilled Cheese
Author: Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker
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Serves: 2 sandwiches
- 1 Tbsp cream cheese
- 2 Tbsp prepared pesto sauce
- 8 slices deli turkey (optional)
- 1 ripe peach, sliced into 12 segments
- 4 slices Havarti cheese
- 4 slices bread
- butter
- Combine the cream cheese and pesto sauce in a small bowl.
- Butter the outside of all four slices of bread.
- Place the two slices, butter side down into a skillet or griddle.
- Spread the top of those slices with the cream cheese-pesto mixture.
- Top the pesto with turkey (optional), peaches and then Havarti.
- Place the remaining slices of bread, butter sides up on top of the cheese.
- Heat the sandwiches over medium heat, flipping halfway through cooking to get a nice brown on both slices of bread.
- Be careful when turning over the sandwiches as the peaches are slippery.
Of course, just because I made these sandwiches gluten free does not mean that you cannot use regular bread!
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If you would like to join us next month, the ingredients are vanilla and chocolate. Just click on my Improv page above in the header for all of the details.
And now, let’s see what everyone else made this month:
