Special weekend edition! My beautiful friend Colleen came over for a Sunday meal prepared with love, freshly ground coffee and good conversation. I’m glad we caught up. I am also glad we created this beautiful breakfast grilled cheese with a story.
I present you with the modified Croque Madame member of the fancy grilled cheese family: New Mexico Croque Madame.
This is a beautiful woman in her early 40′s. She has wild hair, restless spirit, a dozen pairs of cowboy boots, vibrant memories and a lot of determination. She has a ranch in New Mexico, and a stable of beautiful horses (she breeds them). She never married, and never wanted to; she follows her heart and her passions. She used to live in France a decade ago. She’s a bit of a black sheep in this Fancy Grilled Cheese family, but she enjoys that. Every cousin is secretly jealous of her vivacity and thirst for life.
Ingredients
- Two slices of organic rye bread
- Avocado
- Dijon mustard
- Two eggs
- Muenster cheese (from Finland, no preservatives and lactose-free)
- Unsalted Butter
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- A dash of nutmeg
- 1 cup of milk
- Salt & Pepper
- Hungarian Paprika
The process in two parts (for 2 people by the way)
1) (Easy) Prepare the sauce by combining 5 tablespoons of unsalted butter in a small sauce pan. Wait for it to melt. Whisk in the flour. Add whole milk and keep whisking for 5 minutes. You gotta keep whisking it every minute or so in order to keep the saucy consistency.
2) (Requires effort and concentration) Grab a slice from each sandwich and liberally spread sauce on both sides. Let it sit and soak it up. You shouldn’t have any leftover sauce.
Then grab Muenster cheese and distribute it liberally on both sandwiches. Be liberal if you want the cheese to ooze later on! Add slices of avocado on each sandwich. Top it off with another slice of Muenster. Grab the other slices of bread, spread Dijon muster on the inside of that slice and form a sandwich. Spread some butter on the top of the sandwich.
Place them on the pan. Remember, low heat, longer time. Cover with lid. Carefully turn them over (I use a spatula and tongs) after 2-3 minutes and continue.
In the meantime, crack an egg in a small pan and fry the egg with the lid on as well. I’ve a silicon heart-shaped egg thingy to produce lovely egg topping
Place the grilled cheese on the plate, add the egg on top, sprinkle with Hungarian paprika. Voilà!
More photos
Fancy Family Grilled Cheese Project:
Grilled Cheese #1: Swiss Uncle Fruity
Grilled Cheese #2: Distant Eastern European Relative (Hungarian)
Stay tuned for Fancy Grilled Cheese family member #4. I’ll post later this week.












