Nice recipe for a cheese fanatic on a sleepy evening:
Dinner:
1 left over pork loin marinated in various of my favorite ingredients, all of which are secret and any interlopers will be shot on sight getting anywhere near me while I'm making it. For added enjoyment, this can be topped with Pineapple chunks to give it a tropical flair. The pork can be cooked on a Foreman grill if you, like me, were too lazy and tired when returning from purchasing your new table-top size Weber grill to put the blasted thing together and cook on it.
6 discs of Garlic flavored Bagel Crisps, approximately 1 1/2 inches diameter each. Top these with your favorite melty cheese and bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted to your idea of perfection. My choice tonight was a mixture of English Cheddar (the only true Cheddar comes from Cheddar England), and Stilton. Yum! I call this treat "Little Boy Blues" because when the last one is gone and there is no more cheese to peel off the foil you lined the oven with, you are suddenly blue. It has nothing to do with the color of the cheese. Really. You can make this more fancy (if you really need to) by mincing up scallions or chives and sprinkling onto the cheese. Note that once the cheese melts down into the bagel crisps, only the edges where no cheese sat are still crispy. All the rest of the bagel has now absorbed the appropriately high content of oils and fats from the melting cheese. Again, I say, "Yum!"
While the discs are baking, nibble on the remnants of cheese that crumbled off the block and try your best to peel them off the cutting board with larger crumbs from the bagel crisps. Your hips won't mind and your tummy and taste buds will love you forever.
Desert:
Not really necessary with this meal, but a good beverage is requisite to wash it down afterwards. I recommend a nice White Zinfandel and Sprite spritzer on ice. Have two - they're cold and yummy. If you can watch old movies and bore the living daylights out of your roommate while you're drinking them, all the better.
Tonight, all of this was made all the better by the fact that I finally DID put together that Weber grill all by myself, even though there were all kinds of parts to be assembled. I only had two washers left over at the end. Yay me! Now, two steaks are marinating in yet further secret ingredients and the grill is out on the walkway on my cheap little home made table that came from someone's yard sale and my old rusty lawn chair is sitting there waiting for me to rest in it while I cook on my grill. Understand that when you say "my grill" it is said with utmost pride and respect. The grill is good. The grill uses fire to cook the food. Fire! Fire! Hehhhh... :-)
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