rice cake du jour : crunchy peanut butter and apples

I harvested some of my apples last night. I had to buy an apple picker in order to reach the branches.  I ended up with a big bucket of apples, most of which I brought to a coworker so she can make a pie. I saved a few for myself, but there are tons more where they came from!

 

I decided to have a rice cake with apples and peanut butter today. I had one rice cake and a jar of peanut butter in my desk at work, so that was pretty convenient. Delicious combination, but I should have sliced the apple slices a little bigger.

 

 

 

 

rice cake du jour: cream cheese, ham, and apple

I made this rice cake while I was visiting my cousin last week.  As you know I have two big apple trees in my backyard and the apples are starting to ripen.  I brought some apples with me on my trip and decided an apple-topped rice cake might be good.  Especially with ham, since sweet and salty tend to bring out the best in each other.
 

I was right:  it tasted great!
 

Any other apple combinations you can think of that might taste good on a rice cake?

 

 

 

rice cake du jour: tomato, ham, and goat cheese

Another rice cake experiment this week:  grape tomatoes and a slice of deli ham on a base of goat cheese.  I topped it with some Borsari seasoned salt (I LOVE this stuff!) and fresh ground pepper. i then popped it into the toaster oven to warm up the tomatoes and cheese.

It was pretty good.  The cheese was warm and the tomatoes were really sweet and juicy.

So, what should I make next?

rice cake du jour: cream cheese, turkey, and cranberry sauce

Another delicious suggestion from snoskred, although I don't think she uses cream cheese on this one.  But it was too late by the time I remembered. It was still yummy though.  Next time, however, I will be a little more picky about the turkey I use.  I used bistro-style turkey breast from the deli and it was the watery kind.  It was good, but I think the drier turkey breast would taste better.

I used some neufchatel cheese, a slice of deli turkey, and some whole berry cranberry sauce.

rice cake du jour: cream cheese, ham, and egg

Here's another rice cake meal I made--I could really get into this as a habit.  Serious deliciousness!

Thanks to suggestions from a fellow blogger, snoskred, I have new rice cake toppings to try.  This is one of hers and it's so delicious!  Thank you!!

I spread on some neufchatel cheese (low fat version of cream cheese), a little less than an ounce; a slice of ham from the deli, about 3/4 ounce; a sliced hard-boiled egg (I couldn't fit the whole thing so I ate half and put half on the cake); and some salt and ground pepper.

When I first heard this suggestion I'll admit I was skeptical, but it's really delicious.