Toasted Caprese Sandwich with Garlic Basil Mayo

I typically blog when I make a full-fledged recipe. Something fancy, that I had to go out and buy 10 specific ingredients for and involved multiple stages of preparation. Gotta be honest, not my typical night. Since this is now a general food blog and not a cooking blog, I can come clean that a typical dinner for me probably consists of something like:

• a bean and cheese burrito
• Tuna and cheese sandwich with tomato soup
• scrambled eggs and toast
• makeshift Greek chicken salad
• Trader Joe's premade pizza
• Okay...Trader Joe's premade anything...

What I'm driving at here is that few people I know have the time to cook a full-fledged recipe every night, but we still cook by piecing things together. It's not all TV dinners and frozen pizza (although the Trader Joe's version of TV dinners and frozen pizzas are pretty delish...I digress...). And the happy news is that meals that are pieced together can be pretty darn yummy! 

Earlier this week I made bruschetta so when I opened my fridge tonight, I saw that I still had some fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, and cherry tomatoes, so I decided to make a caprese sandwich. Sadly, the crusty bread was all gone, so I just used boring old regular bread. I've made this before with rolls and it was even better, so if copy the recipe, I'd recommend splurging on better bread. But regular bread was fine. 

Ingredients

• Bread or rolls. It might be good on flatbread too, but I haven't tried that!
• Tomatoes. (I used cherry, which is not ideal, but I don't believe in grocery store tomatoes unless they are cherry and don't have anything growing in my garden sooooo...)
• Mozzarella cheese (fresh is best, but regular is fine)
• Fresh basil (I supposed dried basil would be fine, but fresh is so good!)
• Mayonnaise
• Garlic salt, or garlic powder and salt

Instructions (for 2 sandwiches)

1. Toast 4 slices of bread in your toaster (to keep it from getting soggy later)

2. Thinly slice up tomatoes

3. Cut off several thick slices of mozzarella

4. Combine about 2 TBSP Mayo with 4 finely chopped basil leaves (or 1 tsp dried basil) and a teaspoon of garlic salt.  (You might want to taste it and then play around with the quantities)

5. Spread the mayo on two slices of bread and set aside

6. Put the other two slices of bread on a cookie sheet and top with tomatoes and mozzarella

7. Put in the oven and broil for 5-10 minutes, just until cheese is melted. 

8. Top each sandwich with more basil leaves and a mayoed slice of bread.

Voila! 10 minutes dinner.  Forgive the sloppy mayo job in my picture below.