Favorite Ingredient Friday ~ Bacon-Tomato Grilled Cheese Sammies

I ususally participate in "Favorite Ingredient Friday," but having been gone for so long, I'm not really sure if it's still running. If it is, awesome, if not, I'll still use Friday as a day to indroduce something from my Stepford Cookbook.

This week, I'm submitting a recipe for.. A sandwich.

I have to admit… I'm not a big sandwich person. And if I were, I wouldn't get a recipe for one. A sandwich is a sandwich, right? Who needs instructions on how to make one? But one day I had such a hankering for a grilled cheese sandwich (aka "sammies"), and I happened to stumble across this recipe, and I had to make it. It was so tasty!

Of course, I tweaked the recipe a bit, customizing it to Mr. Stepford and myself by replacing one of the mozzarella cheese slices for American cheese, and replacing 4 slices of cheddar cheese for 1 slice of American. That made this recipe the perfect sammies!

I'll give you both versions below:

Mrs. Stepford's Version

4 slices sourdough bread
4 slices American cheese
4 slices tomatoes
8 strips cooked bacon
Sour cream
2 tablespoons finely chopped onions
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

Butter

Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. On the non-buttered
side, top one slice of bread with one slice of American cheese, 2 tomato slices,
4 bacon strips, and another slice of American cheese. On the non-buttered
side of another slice of bread, and spread a layer of sour cream on the
bread. Sprinkle with dried oregano and onion. Mash the two sides
together to form a sammies! Place sandwich on a hot griddle, outside grill, or pan over medium heat and grill 3-4 minutes on each side or until lightly toasted.

Yield: 2 sammies!

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Original Recipe
8 slices sourdough bread
4 slices mozzarella cheese
2 large thinly sliced tomatoes
8 strips fully cooked bacon
4 tablespoons sour cream
4 tablespoons finely chopped onions
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
4 slices Cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons softened butter

For each sandwich, top one slice of bread with one slice of mozzarella
cheese, a fourth of the tomato slices, two bacon strips, 1 tablespoon sour
cream, one tablespoon onion, a pinch of oregano, one slice of cheddar cheese,
and another slice of bread. Grill as above.