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Still love the original yaller cheese, and mayo, but for a nice alternative try substituting with a good Pimento cheese like Pawleys Island, Palmetto Cheese with Jalapenos.
And of course the tomato soup has to be made with whole milk. (a little basil added is also supreme)
@Kasey, Chef is one of my favorite movies. Saw it at the theatre shortly after my divorce and I had to wait til the credits were finished so people wouldn't see me crying. (Not that it's a crying movie. Just sayin'.)
I grew up on grilled cheeses and in a blue collar family that meant two slices of Sunbeam white bread, one Kraft single, and a couple of pats of Land O' Lakes butter. My mother taught me how to make them at age 7 so I could feed myself when I was hungry.
These days I use fresh-baked multigrain bread, President, Plugra, or Kerrygold butter, and a combination of cheeses (Muenster is essential, the others are optional- Colby, Swiss, Monterey Jack, whatever you like).
Bacon and/or fresh sliced tomatoes are certainly good options.
The trick to a good grilled cheese is getting the cheese to melt fully without burning the bread, and when you add additional ingredients it's that much more demanding. I use all sorts of tricks with heat changes and lids and well-timed flips to try to get it just right.
@ghostofuga1 try this to kick your grilled cheese up a notch. Grate up a bunch of cheddar cheese and American cheese and melt 3 tablespoons of cream cheese in the microwave. Mix the 3 cheeses together and make your grilled cheese with a slice of American and a slice of Swiss with the 3 cheese spread. Put more grated cheddar on the sammie and then grill it like normal. Sooooo delish with tomato soup!
To @FirePlugDawg's point, here's the video @Kasey was referencing, and which I agree is pretty inspiring when it comes to grilled cheeses.
Whole wheat and quality cheddar grilled with butter. Add a kosher dill and hash browns..enjoy.
I love a good quality Gouda cheese, sliced dill pickle, onion and thin sliced (fresh) tomato. Add only a little salt and pepper. Grill to golden using real butter.
For my emergency accompaniment, condensed canned tomato soup (only when I got nothing better), made with milk instead of water, and basil, black pepper to taste.
This thread cracks me up. I just go classic. Chunk of butter in the pan until it bubbles, two slices of American cheese between either white or wheat, place the bread in the skillet and swirl it around with your fingers so that the entire surface of the bread is covered w/ butter. Cook until golden brown. Flip and repeat (butter too). Done.
To be safe, one should make a small cut in the finished sammie to let the steam out. Also, someone could make this a commercial deal, not as a main product but as an add-on, especially if breakfast business is slow. Would need to have the "small cut" built into the extraction process (flipping it out of the device), rather than relying on teen help to remember to do it.
Listen up people.
Only heathens and moo-rons, (you read correctly, moo, as in pertaining to bovine cuisine) would contaminate a quality product such as fine cheddar with mayo...gads !
I grew up on the traditional version of the grilled cheese — two pieces of buttered white bread with Kraft single(s) on the inside, grilled golden on both sides. Over the years I would still make it that way to satisfy my comfort itch, but most of the time I would make them with an upgraded bread/cheese and would also add a slice of ham and tomato, and hit it with a little bit of black pepper too.
Then one day I ran across the below recipe. My first reaction to seeing it was — you’re kidding, right? This is sacrilegious. Not to mention a little too “uptown” for my comfort wants with grilled cheeses. But the twist with this recipe never left my memory so eventually I decided to give it a try. My wife and kids (and I) loved the grilled cheeses so much we’ve never made them any other way since then:
The hard crust of the sourdough, a great tasting cheese that melts really good, and the very light combo of sweet/salty on one side of the crunchy grilled cheese is off the hook.
Hope you guys give it a try one day, I think you'll like it.
dawghouse, everything but the honey seems worth trying. I do love cheddar though.
I love grilled cheeses with cheddar as well @WCDawg .
Like you, neither am I a honey guy (though my wife has always used it as a healthier alternative to sugar). I knew of this recipe for at least year before I finally decided to give it a go. The key is to go super lightly with both the honey and sea salt, you should only get a hint of that combo with each bite.
I think doing it without the honey could be good too, though I don't know how much I would enjoy the added saltiness without the counterbalance of the sweetness.
Great thread. I love to try different takes on an old classic. My standard is pimento cheese with ham on a good white bread that's been buttered.
The problem here, you can't have pimento cheese without mayo. Try Dukes and don't slather it on.
Lox, I suspect most pimento is a mixture of soy and horse manure.
Them's fighting words right there.