Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Crispy Bakes Monte Cristos ~ page 65

These are fun to make--they are easy, but deliciously different--a wonderful way to pump up a sandwich. Serve them with a fruity syrup. (I used a peach jam my daughter-law, Julia, made...that didn't quite set, so was perfect for syrup!) A sifting of powdered sugar on top is nice too.
Set up an assembly line with your bread, cheese, meat, crispy rice cereal, and egg and milk mixture.
After you make your sandwiches, cut the crusts off.
I cut this recipe in half for two people. I did run short of the crisped rice for my last sandwich half, as you can see. But that is easy to fix: just pour out some more cereal! Be sure to wet and coat all the sides of each sandwich half, not just the top and bottom.
Here are my sandwiches, ready for the oven. One last note...I made these on the healthy side with whole wheat bread, but they would be very delicious from a nice white bread like Pepperidge Farm. And one more optional step for special occasions when you are ok with a few extra calories: drizzle the tops with melted butter before browning in the oven. I didn't do this on these, and they were still great, but probably for company, I would use the white bread and butter, just to make them snazzier. Either way, this is a great sandwich.

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