It is now time to pay full respect to one snack I ate a lot this past couple of months. The very humble cream cheese, egg, tomato, ham, salt and pepper snack. There was a two week streak of this snack after my Avocado Incident. So how do we make this?
First, a layer of cream cheese, then the eggs. Do you see all those double yolkers there? My two Manning Valley eggs both were double yolkers on this day. The Other Half said I should buy a lotto ticket. :)
I like to salt and pepper them up good.
Then layer on the tomato. Sometimes I get huge beefsteak tomatoes where you only need one slice, sometimes the tomatoes are smaller and I have to get creative like I did here. You definitely want to try and get all the egg covered, to preserve the rice cracker-cream cheese-egg-tomato-ham ratio. :)
If I am feeling low on salt, I usually add some salt to the top of the tomatoes. I have low blood pressure and have been advised to make sure I get *enough* salt, VS The Other Half who has high blood pressure and has been advised to cut down his salt intake. Finally add your ham, and you are done-ski!
There is something about this snack, these simple flavours put together really sing. You do need to be a little careful because the tomato can sometimes get a little drippy.
The best part about this snack – any leftover tomato or egg is taken out to the chooks. Chooks do like eating egg, this may come as a surprise to some of you. But even more than that, a couple of my girls really love tomato, one in particular deeply loves tomato seeds.
On a chook level, there is a hierarchy of snacks. My girls love blueberries the most at the moment – any hint of blueberries and they all run up to me trumpeting. Watermelon and strawberries are next, then tomato, then egg, then cauliflower leaves or any kind of greens. If you give them an actual cauliflower they will peck it into an Alien Landform. They do not get sweet corn in summer because it raises their body temperature – that is their favourite winter snack.
On a human level, this lunch snack is one of my all time favourites and in general will be made every second day.
That reminds me: I need to boil some eggs so I can make sone rice cake snacks!
Dawn, my egg boiling game is on point.. plus my egg ice bath afterwards! ;) I usually do mine the evening before when making sammiches for TOH. :)
That looks utterly delicious! I love all the ingredients, so the combo would be excellent.
Something about putting them together, Margaret, elevates all these ingredients into something else entirely. :)
I don’t snack, but my favourite summer lunch is plain rye bread with a slice of cheese topped with herrings in tomato sauce. i used to buy the King Oscar brand, but it hasn’t been available for a few years now, so I’m buying the John West brand.
River: these are my daily lunches, I’m calling them snacks cos it kinda sounds like Scooby Snacks, Snoskred Snacks. :) Next time I have a non rice cracker thing, which will be quite different!
Minus the ham, that looks like a pretty damn good snack! One of my favorite snacks is the yolk from a hard-boiled egg spread on toast. I grew up watching my mom eat it for breakfast and have since taken to eating it myself. :)
Hey Karen, thanks for dropping by my place! I love your blog. :) The egg yolk is my kryptonite. If I could eat one with every meal, I probably would.
That reminds me: I love a hard-boiled egg sliced up on top of buttered toast with salt and pepper. Not quite the same, but similar.
That would be quite delicious, I will add it to my list! ;) Thanks Dawn..
This looks delicious. And I think it’s a culinary marvel even I could attempt. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before!
Mitchell: I saw some delicious lunch salads and lunch plates at your blog recently. I might be giving that a try soon! ;) mmm mango!
OMG, I’m so hungry right now. These look delicious, and that reminds me I need pepper. :)
These rice cake thingies are my lunch at least 6 days a week.. and I am still not bored by them.. happy moments! ;) I hope you get pepper soonest, Leah! ;)