Cooking for a Community Fridge

[patti]

I did a test oven grilled cheese sandwich for Mike (my husband), who doesn’t usually care for grilled cheese (IKR?), and he thought it was really good. I’d weighted down a cookie sheet and put it on top, and boy, it was a smashed grilled cheese. Decided no weight was necessary and “tested” a batch and then ended up making 22 of them and taking them to the fridge. They were kind of greasy (sorry, recipients). I’d either use less butter next time or switch to mayo. Not a great pic, but the first full batch:

 

 

The cheeses were a medium cheddar and havarti. I may or may not make more this week. Might make them another time and pair with homemade tomato soup (which I’ve never made before).

 

Anyone have an opinion on a hard fried egg and cheese sandwich? 

 

Breakfast sandwiches are another option, especially if my granddaughter participates as planned. I’ll cook the sausage patties ahead of time, and bake the sheet pan scrambled eggs ahead of time, too. She can help me with cutting the eggs into rounds to fit on the sandwiches, and assembling. Frozen Grands biscuits will be used (sorry to all the people who are cringing over using frozen ready made biscuits). 🤷‍♀️

 

I might have unintentionally worried my granddaughter when I told her we would be making the sandwiches for children who don’t have enough food. She looked worried and later asked if her little brother could come, too. Maybe she thinks I meant the hungry children would be at my house? Will have to confer with her mother about it. 

 

 

[Smithy]

1 hour ago, patti said:

Anyone have an opinion on a hard fried egg and cheese sandwich? 

 

For some reason this seems problematic to me, in a way that scrambled eggs in the breakfast sandwiches you're considering don't. I realize that all these sandwiches will be cooked, chilled, and presumably reheated somehow. So why am I skeptical of hard fried, then reheated? It sounds aesthetically less pleasing to me, but maybe that's just me.

 

Would they be likely to explode in the microwave when reheating, do you think? I assume the yolk would (ideally) still be intact, so its air bubble would still be present. A hard-boiled egg, or at least an almost-hard-boiled egg, will explode. Ask me how I know. 😆

[Darienne]

15 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

For some reason this seems problematic to me, in a way that scrambled eggs in the breakfast sandwiches you're considering don't. I realize that all these sandwiches will be cooked, chilled, and presumably reheated somehow. So why am I skeptical of hard fried, then reheated? It sounds aesthetically less pleasing to me, but maybe that's just me.

 

I feel this way also.  A reheated fried egg sounds somehow unappetizing to me.  But then eggs are one of the things that have to be cooked just right for my taste and I usually like to cook them myself.  But then that's me.  I do have a long history with eggs.  

[patti]

47 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

For some reason this seems problematic to me, in a way that scrambled eggs in the breakfast sandwiches you're considering don't. I realize that all these sandwiches will be cooked, chilled, and presumably reheated somehow. So why am I skeptical of hard fried, then reheated? It sounds aesthetically less pleasing to me, but maybe that's just me.

 

Would they be likely to explode in the microwave when reheating, do you think? I assume the yolk would (ideally) still be intact, so its air bubble would still be present. A hard-boiled egg, or at least an almost-hard-boiled egg, will explode. Ask me how I know. 😆

😂

 

 

27 minutes ago, Darienne said:

I feel this way also.  A reheated fried egg sounds somehow unappetizing to me.  But then eggs are one of the things that have to be cooked just right for my taste and I usually like to cook them myself.  But then that's me.  I do have a long history with eggs.

Hard fried egg sandwiches are off the table!

PB&J back on the list.