Adventures in Pinteresting: Heaven on a Plate, otherwise known as Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese Sammich

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT Pinterest while hungry. Anyone who follows me on Pinterest can probably tell when I'm pinning hungry because I'll have pinned 18 straight food items. This happened Saturday morning before we had breakfast. While it was a mistake to pin whilst hungry, sometimes mistakes have huge payoffs. Thankfully, Saturday was a huge payoff!

After coming across the pin for Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese on Sourdough Bread, I pinned it and mentally stored it away in my brain. We headed off to Peanut's first baseball practice and I casually mentioned to The Woodman that I found a recipe that sounded pretty good. You could see him falling just a little bit more in love with me when I told him what it was. Baseball practice finished and we began to head home, discussing where we should go for dinner. The Woodman brings up the grilled cheese so we wheeled into Publix, gathered the items, and rushed home to make dinner.

You can find the official recipe here, but who needs an official recipe for something that requires lots of cheese and lots of bacon???

You can almost taste the deliciousness just by looking at the picture!

Here's how I made the sammiches...

1) Lay out your sourdough bread and lightly brush olive oil onto one side of each piece of bread. Place the oiled sides down on a clean workspace.

2) Add sliced cheddar cheese to one piece of your bread. I didn't use a specific amount of cheese, because really....can you have too much cheese????

3) Add sliced avocado on top of the cheese.

Peanut wasn't sure if he wanted avocado on his, hence the smaller amount on the first sammich.

4) The Woodman decided tomato might be good on the sammich, so put your sliced tomato on top of the avocado. (This, by the way, was an excellent request and will be replicated on all future sammiches!)

5) Place cooked bacon*** on top of your avocado (or tomatoes). Again, no specific amount because can you really have too much bacon???

I can hear Homer Simpson now. Hmmmmm, bacon.

***Side note on cooking bacon...
I have never mastered the art of cooking bacon in a cast iron skillet. It is either not finished, or completely burnt. I found this tip on Pinterest- cover a shallow baking sheet in aluminum foil (for easy cleanup), place bacon in a single layer row, and put the pan into your cold oven (before turning the oven on). Then turn oven on to 400 degrees and cook for about 15 minutes. The 15 minutes begin from when you turn the oven on, not from when it reaches 400 degrees. Start checking your bacon every so often after 15 minutes until it is cooked to your liking. Remove bacon from pan immediately to keep it from overcooking once out of the oven!

6) Put more cheese on top of your bacon. The original recipe called for Monterrey Jack on this layer, I believe. We just used more cheddar.

7) Place the other piece of bread on top, oiled side facing up and cook using whatever method you like to make grilled cheese. Just cook until bread is golden brown and the cheese is all melted. I thought I was being clever and actually grilled our grilled cheese on our gas grill; but based on a Facebook poll, other people have done this as well.

8) Once they are finished cooking, remove from heat, cut in half, and serve.

Peanut wanted to be a sammich model.

I knew right off the bat that the Woodman and I would like this sammich, but wasn't sure about Peanut. While he is a fan of guacamole, his jury is still out on whether he likes plain avocado.