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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Grilled Cheese


When your town is being engulfed by a snow storm, there is no better lunch than soup. I looked in our pantry and I found tomato soup. As a kid, I actually ate tomato soup plain and wasn't introduced to the grilled cheese and tomato soup concept until college. Since then, I have never had it plain again. Today, I will teach you how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich. You would be surprised at how many adults can mess this up.
First: You will need two slices of bread (your choice), some butter (or margarine), and cheese (your choice).
Second: Butter your bread. Only do one side on each slice. Be kind of generous in your buttering but you don't need to slather it on.
Third: Put one slice of bread butter side down in a frying pan. Add your cheese (you can use slices, shredded, small hunks, anything! I will warn you though that anything other than the slices can get a bit messy when you flip it, especially the shredded).
Fourth: Put your other slice of bread on top of the cheese, butter side up.
Fifth: Turn your burner on low-medium. (This method will take a bit for your sandwich to start cooking but if you put the butter in the pan instead of on the bread, it doesn't turn out as well and it makes a bigger mess.)
Sixth: Wait for your sandwich to start sizzling. You can choose to wait to flip until you think it's brown (a couple minutes) or you can flip right away (if you're impatient like me) but then you will have to flip several times.
Seventh: Then do the same with the other side, after you have flipped. The sandwich is done when it's a brown color you like. Then serve with the soup!

You can experiment with all different kinds of cheese and toppings (some people add bacon, tomato, scrambled eggs, etc). What's your favorite way to eat grilled cheese?

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