{"id":651,"date":"2011-10-13T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2012-01-16T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:12:41","slug":"recipe-6-spring-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Croque Monsieur with Mushroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Why have a regular sandwich when you can have a croque monsieur? This decadent, baked treat is delicious for breakfast, lunch, dinner&#8230;.anytime you want! We add mushrooms to this recipe but you can go the straight carnivore option, or add tomato, zucchini, roasted eggplant or anything else that tickles your fancy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Serve with a crisp green salad. Makes 2 sandwiches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ravenoustales.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/cm1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"CM1\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenoustales.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/cm1-e1318214713532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>30g butter<\/p>\n<p>1 tbs plain flour<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup (125ml) milk<\/p>\n<p>125g gruyere cheese, grated<\/p>\n<p>50g parmesan, grated<\/p>\n<p>4 large slices sourdough bread<\/p>\n<p>1 tsp Dijon mustard<\/p>\n<p>100g sliced leg ham<\/p>\n<p>100g mushrooms, sliced<\/p>\n<p>Pinch of nutmeg<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat, add the flour and stir for 1-2 minutes without letting the mixture brown.\u00a0 Slowly add the milk, whisking constantly, and continue to cook over low heat for about 4-5 minutes or until thick. Add half the grated gruyere cheese, stirring to combine. Add salt, pepper, parmesan and nutmeg. Set aside to cool.<\/p>\n<p>Put sliced bread on baking sheet and bake for 2 to 3 mins each side, until lightly toasted.<\/p>\n<p>Spread half the toasted bread with mustard, add ham to each, and sprinkle with half the remaining Gruyere. Put a spoon of the cheese sauce on this. Top with the other piece of toasted bread. Put the mushrooms on the top, slather with cheese sauce and sprinkle with the remaining Gruyere. Bake the sandwiches for 5 to 7 minutes. Grill for a further 3 to 5 minutes, or until the topping is bubbly and lightly browned. Serve hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why have a regular sandwich when you can have a croque monsieur? This decadent, baked treat is delicious for breakfast, lunch, dinner&#8230;.anytime you want! We add mushrooms to this recipe but you can go the straight carnivore option, or add tomato, zucchini, roasted eggplant or anything else that tickles your fancy.\u00a0 Serve with a crisp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ravenoustales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}