Grilled cheeses......

[jgh]

I usually use the White Wheat brand of bread, 2 pieces of American cheese slices and a very small layer of mayonnaise. A little butter spread on both sides. Toasted a little crispy. YUM.

Sometimes I'll dip my sandwich in tomato soup as well.

 

[CuteAndFluffy]

I like the classic American on cheap white, but I also love:

Bacon, thin sliced apple, and havarti
Onion jam and gruyere (like French onion soup!)
Chutney & cream cheese
Pumpernickel and swiss with thousand island
Bakery white bread with pizza sauce and mozerella and basil
Ham & swiss & dijon on rye with apple butter
Thin sliced pork with swiss, pickles, and ham
Ham & swiss with raspberry jam
Bacon, cheddar, green onion on bakery white
Medium fried egg, american, bacon
Turkey, swiss & cranberry chutney
Thin sliced pear & havarti
Lox & dill havarti on rye
Pork roast and gruyere with apricot jam on pretzel roll (slice and flip inside out for grilling)

I'll have to try the mayo! I usually melt the butter in the pan, which works great, but mayo makes many things better.

 

[spacemountainmom]

I use my great grandmother's method, slightly updated because of better cheese availability. Lots of butter, grated cheese, cast iron, low heat.

1. Take out butter long before you want to use it so it is soft and spreadable.

2. Generously butter both sides of one slice of sourdough bread and just one side of the second slice.

3. Heat a cast iron skillet over low heat and cook one side of the double-buttered slice until golden.

4. Shred cheese - I usually use a mixture of cheddar, gruyere, and Monterey Jack. Fontina is also nice.

5. Assemble sandwich - lots of cheese in middle, crisp side in, both uncooked buttered sides out.

6. Lightly sprinkle buttered sides with freshly grated Parmesan and press into butter.

7. Cook sandwich over low heat, turning once, until cheese is melted and bread is golden brown and crisp. This takes a while but if your heat is low enough some of the cheese will melt into the bread and you have perfection.

I just tried this for lunch - it was wonderful!

 

[RyMacJ]

This is so far off topic, but the first thing that popped into my head when I read the thread title was the Glee episode "Grilled Cheesus".

RIP Cory

 

[Maggie7313]

I just tried this for lunch - it was wonderful!

That makes me happy! Great-grandma would be proud. And mystified that her "toasted cheese sandwich" was being passed around something called the Internet. :smile:

 

[spacemountainmom]

That makes me happy! Great-grandma would be proud. And mystified that her "toasted cheese sandwich" was being passed around something called the Internet. :smile:

Did your great-grandma have any special tips for macaroni and cheese? That's my other favorite cheese item.

 

[elaine amj]

Inspired by this thread. I had grilled cheese for breakfast - with mayo instead of butter. It toasted it beautifully!! Definitely will do this from now on

 

[Hollymom1229]

You guys are making me hungry. May need to hit the store tomorrow to get a few different kinds of cheese and bread.

DH's favorite grilled cheese is Swiss, rye bread, butter. Mine is American, Italian bread, butter. The secret in our house is melt the butter in the pan before cooking. Let it start getting really and put the assembled sandwich into the hot butter. When that side is perfectly cooked remove the sandwich to the plate and melt the next pat of butter before flipping the sandwich back into the pan to cook the other side. I have no idea why this seems to work better than buttering the bread first, but it is so good.

 

[Maggie7313]

Did your great-grandma have any special tips for macaroni and cheese? That's my other favorite cheese item.

No macaroni and cheese tips from g-grandma. She loved the Kraft deluxe in the box with the foil pack of processed cheese. My favorite mac and cheese recipe is Ina Garten's Grown Up Mac and Cheese. I double the recipe so we have leftovers and use panko, Parmesan, and basil instead of white bread for the topping. I also round up on the cheese if there will only be a little bit left after grating the specified amount.

G-grandma was born in 1888 and her mother was the company cook at a coal mine and then owned a boarding house. G-grandma always had to help with the cooking growing up. She lived with us my whole life until she died at 101 when I was in high school. She always told me to be rich so I could have a cook when I grew up because she hated cooking so much. She loved all of the processed foods and I often think about how much she would laugh at all of the time I spend cooking things from scratch. But she did make fabulous pies and watermelon rind preserves in addition to those yummy grilled cheese sandwiches.

 

[TifffanyD]

Add a slice of American cheese to boxed Kraft... My grandma's secret

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Dare I say Velveeta and bacon. Do not forsake Velveeta. Yeah it is the Spam of cheeses but darn it is good with bacon, and tomato on the outside I use Stonewall Kitchen Garlic Horseradish Ailoi (fancy for mayo). OMG!

 

[taymaesmom]

We prefer wheat bread with cheddar and pepper jack! So yummy! I also will had ham often. We tried these this weekend and they were super yummy! http://sarahowe.blogspot.com/2013/08/grilled-cheese-hamburger.html

 

[spacemountainmom]

No macaroni and cheese tips from g-grandma. She loved the Kraft deluxe in the box with the foil pack of processed cheese. My favorite mac and cheese recipe is Ina Garten's Grown Up Mac and Cheese. I double the recipe so we have leftovers and use panko, Parmesan, and basil instead of white bread for the topping. I also round up on the cheese if there will only be a little bit left after grating the specified amount.

G-grandma was born in 1888 and her mother was the company cook at a coal mine and then owned a boarding house. G-grandma always had to help with the cooking growing up. She lived with us my whole life until she died at 101 when I was in high school. She always told me to be rich so I could have a cook when I grew up because she hated cooking so much. She loved all of the processed foods and I often think about how much she would laugh at all of the time I spend cooking things from scratch. But she did make fabulous pies and watermelon rind preserves in addition to those yummy grilled cheese sandwiches.

She sounds like quite the lady. I actually love to cook, but would take a maid to clean up!