Hi there and Happy Friday! Let me start this Friday post off with something sweet…
So, I totally ate this for dinner last night! I’ve been doing a thing where I eat dessert for dinner about one night a week, and it’s working out great for me and my sweet tooth. 80/20 balanced eating baby!
The above deliciousness is scoops of Halo Top Creamery vanilla bean, strawberry, & chocolate flavors (despite me talking abut them twice this week, I’m not affiliated with them at all…. yet! I’d certainly like to be since I love them 🙂 ) with banana, caramel, a TJ’s brownie & oats bar and some chopped up Bark Thins dark chocolate pretzel with sea salt chunks. I went on a kick butt hike with my pup yesterday and just was not feeling any kind of typical dinner, so a dessert bowl for dinner it was…and it was fabulous!
Scenes from yesterday’s hot & sweaty hike
But let’s get to the real matter at hand today: grilled cheese.
Pretty much anyone that eats cheese likes grilled cheese. I like to get a little creative with my grilled cheeses: Sometimes I put avocado, tomato & horseradish mustard with a cheddar grilled cheese, other times I put lightly fried zucchini in the sandwich. Today’s grilled cheese is kind of fancy, and a combo you probably don’t see very often:
Ever since I first made these pancakes with blueberry sauce, I’ve been thinking about other ways to cook blueberries and maple syrup into a sweet, sticky sauce because it is so.damn.good. The idea of melted cheese and buttery bread with gooey blueberries was intriguing to me and sounded like a fun, gourmet way to do grilled cheese, so I went for it…and you should too, because it’s delicious!
Because blueberries in grilled cheese definitely falls under the category of a recipe that’s strange but good, today I’m linking up to Laura‘s weekly strange but good party (for the first time ever!).
Maple Blueberry Fontina Grilled Cheese
Ingredients
- 2 slices whole wheat bread
- 1 1/2 oz fontina cheese grated
- 1 TBSP butter
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 TBSP maple syrup
- 1/4 TSP vanilla extract
- 1/4 TSP fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Place the blueberries, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and lemon juice in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Allow to simmer, then reduce heat to low. Stir occasionally and cook until blueberries are thickened into a sauce.
- Meanwhile, butter the outsides of the bread slices. Place grated fontina cheese on one slice of bread.
- When blueberry sauce is ready, spoon onto the bread over the cheese.
- Cook over medium in a pan for a few minutes on each side until browned. Immediately enjoy while it's hot!
Nutrition
Tell me… Do you get creative with your grilled cheeses too? Ever eat dessert for dinner?
One, this grilled cheese sounds amazingggg. I am a huge fan of fontina and with blueberries??? yes yes!
And two, how fun to eat dessert for dinner every so often! I love that! Have a great weekend lady!
Welcome to the #strangebutgood party!!! Love this odd grilled cheese… I’d inhale it! The sweet berry + salty cheese combo is one of my favorites on a cheese plate. Why not melted in a sandwich? Yum!
Girl. I am drooling SO HARD over here. This might sound better than anything I have ever seen in my entire life. I. Need. It. NOW!!!! Totally making it soon.
Well I’ve never heard of eating dessert for dinner before but I like it! That sundae looks like one epic way to do it too! 🙂
And this grilled cheese sounds unbelievable! Fontina melts so beautifully and I’m sure the sweet n’ salty combo is to-die-for!
YUMMMM!!! OMG my mouth is drooling! At first when I read what it was I was not sure but then I started thinking about it and OMMMGG Thanks for sharing xo C
Girrrrl, I don’t even eat cheese anymore and you have me salivating at this sandwich. It looks SO good, as does that dinner choice of sugar and heaven in a bowl.
I just came across your site through Healthy Aperture! OMG, this sandwich looks amazing!!! I am buying Fontina tomorrow and making it right away! I think my kids would love it too.
This is such a great idea! I love it!! I just tried a blueberry goat cheese recently that is totally divine. I think this would be amazing! Hope you are having a great weekend!
WOW! First off, this looks amazing! What a fun recipe! I just love that you added blueberries!! How sweet! (literally!!) …and secondly, I love that you ate dessert for dinner and do it once in a while! While I don’t think I could ever skip dinner and opt for dessert, I find my balanced in little treats almost daily! Today I ate some delicious dark chocolate (Rainforest Mint flavored!) Gotta love that balanced lifestyle!! 🙂
I looked at that first picture and thought “wait a minute. That looks like a strange grilled cheese” lol. It all looks amazing though, I never would have thought to add blueberries to a grilled cheese sandwich.