Blueberries Are Our Friends

Blueberry Breakfast Grilled Cheese (original Pin)

I get bored with breakfast. This is sad, because I actually really LOVE breakfast. I've never been one of those breakfast-skippers. Even if I'm running late for work, and didn't have anything good in the house, I will STILL stop at McD's for a sausage burrito and hazelnut iced coffee, and just hope that my boss doesn't get too mad when I clock in after my scheduled time. I always wake up hungry, and if my sugars are low, I become a basket-case. But I've never been a fan of cereal, and I feel like I'm the only American who doesn't love bacon, so I'm always looking for something new to try out.

And last night, as I was browsing Pinterest, I saw this recipe a friend had pinned. Blueberry Breakfast Grilled Cheese! It's basically stuffed french toast in sandwich form, amiright? Thank the Good Lord, He had blessed me with already having all of the ingredients in the house, so I hopped out of bed this morning, and knew exactly what I would be making!

Blueberry Breakfast Grilled Cheese

(From fitfromconception.com)

Cream cheese

Confectioners sugar

Whole wheat bread

Butter

Blueberries

I used neufchatel instead of regular cream cheese to cut back on the fat content.

There are no measurements in the ingredients, because it depends on how sweet you want it and how many sandwiches you're making. I started out with about 2 tablespoons of cream cheese and an overflowing tablespoon of sugar. TIP: You might want to lay out your cream cheese to let it soften beforehand. I did not do this, so I microwaved it for about 15 seconds.

Mix your cream cheese and sugar until smooth.

Butter one side of each slice of bread. 

Spread cream cheese/sugar mixture onto other side of bread.

(The original post suggested only doing this on one slice of bread. I did both.)

Sprinkle some blueberries on top of the cream cheese, and slap the other slice of bread on there.

The original blogger makes this in some fancy-pants sandwich maker, which I do not have. So, I just made it on the stove like I would a regular grilled cheese.

Grill til golden brown, flip, grill til golden brown. You know the drill.

Original Blogger compared this to a Pop-Tart, but I'm gonna step it up and say it leans more towards a Toaster Strudel. I LOVE TOASTER STRUDELS. I definitely devoured this thing and ended up making a second.

Also, have you guys tried Silk's new iced lattes? I'm not saying this stuff is AMAZING, but it's pretty tasty, and it's easier on my stomach than making my own iced coffees with real creamer. 

Today's bonus video is a special treat! Any time I'm dealing with blueberries, I'm always reminded of the Pop-Tart commercial from when I was a kid, where these cute little kids say things that their parents say about breakfast. There's this line a little boy says, that my mom and I used to say all the time, "Blueberries are our friends!" Anyway, it took me a while to track it down online, but I finally found it. As I re-watched it for the first time in 20 years, I recognized the last girl, at the very end - it's Mae Whitman! I LOVE HER! Apparently, this commercial was one of her very first gigs, before she scored a role in When a Man Loves a Woman. Of course, now we all know her as Ann on Arrested Development or Amber on Parenthood or Roxy Richter in Scott Pilgrim. She's come a long way from, "Someday, you'll thank me!"