Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Croque Monsieur on a Croissant!


I don't know when I first became aware of the French ham and cheese sandwich known as Croque Monsieur.  Somewhere, someway, I either read about it or heard it mentioned often enough that I knew what it was, even if I had no idea what it really looked like.

My obsession, however, truly began in 2009...when I saw It's Complicated.  I'm glad "Thou shalt not covet the belongings of Meryl Streep's movie character" is not a commandment because I would still be saying penance. Hopefully, you've seen this movie and know what I'm talking about!  In the moments between the times I was laughing uncontrollably, most of my thoughts while I watched this movie were along the lines of

-"I want her house!"
-"I want her garden!"
-"I want her bakery!"
-"I want (John Krasinski's character) to be my future son-in-law!"
-"I want her purple suede boots!"

The food scenes were drool-worthy.  In one scene, when she took a baking pan out of the oven I think I may have actually said out loud, "What is that!?"  And when Alec Baldwin's character answered the question for me and said, "Is that croque monsieur?" I mentally made a note that I just had to make croque monsieur for myself.  After I bought a pair of purple suede boots, of course.  I'm still waiting for my future son-in-law to come and sweep my daughter off her feet.

She's going to hate me for writing that.

As luck would have it, Ina Garten's Croque Monsieur  popped up when I googled this recipe for the first time.  I've made a few adaptations--I use significantly less cheese, and instead of bread I decided a French sandwich calls for a croissant, oui?

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