Smilodon Grilled Cheese Sandwiches recipe from Molly MacRae

 

Smilodons, also known as saber-toothed cats (or incorrectly as saber-toothed tigers) packed a wallop of a bite. So do these grilled cheese sandwiches. My family has become very fond of them and they’re one of our in-house versions of fast food. For variety, you might try rye bread, sliced fresh avocado, or another kind of cheese. We use fake bacon to make them vegetarian, but Smilodons were meat eaters, so don’t be shy about using real bacon. We also don’t bother to butter the bread. Saves time, saves calories, saves on greasy fingers, and you end up with a nice crisp sandwich. Feel free to butter away, though, if you want.

We usually use Morningstar Farm vegetarian bacon but weren’t able to find it one week. We didn’t think the brand we did find was as good. Sadly the same was true of the ready-made guacamole we found. We still enjoyed the sandwiches.

I served the sandwiches with mustard roasted potatoes.

 

Smilodons – they’ve got bite!

 

Ingredients

Sourdough bread

Bacon (or vegetarian alternative), cooked

1 or 2 ripe Avocados, sliced, or guacamole (readymade from the produce section is fine)

Jalapeño pepper, diced

Monterey Jack cheese, sliced (or pepper jack)

 

Directions

Heat your skillet.

Build your sandwich in layers (with as much or little of each ingredient as suits your taste): 1st slice of bread, cheese, guacamole, jalapeño pepper slices, bacon, more cheese, 2nd slice of bread.

Place sandwich(es) in the heated skillet and brown on both sides.

Serve and bite!

 

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book 3 in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries!

 

On North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island, Maureen Nash sells exquisite seashells to locals and tourists—with Bonny the shop cat and the ghost of a Welsh pirate for company. And when needed, she steps in to help the police solve a murder . . .

Dr. Irving Allred is boasting around town that he’s about to get his hands on an authentic haunted sword. But minutes after Maureen hears the story, a woman walks into the Moon Shell, sword in hand. She found it while walking her bulldog on the beach—and its blade is stained with what looks like blood. Looks like it’s time to call the sheriff’s department.

Allred is furious that his prize is now in police custody—and even more agitated that an unknown buyer was trying to outbid him. He’s convinced the sword will lead him straight to the ghosts he’s been hunting. He’s not the only one on the Outer Banks who’s been searching for spirits, though. An odd visitor also showed up at Maureen’s shop claiming the ability to sense them . . . though somehow she didn’t seem to notice Maureen’s spectral friend hanging about.

When a man who’d been camping nearby is found cut down along the shore, Maureen starts providing some unofficial assistance to Captain Rob Tate by digging into the island’s maritime history. But it’s not the only mystery she’s facing—because the shop’s resident ghost is seeing ghosts himself . . .

 

Happy reading!

 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.