This morning it’s grilled cheese sandwiches. These sandwiches are no ordinary sandwiches, however. They are made with GIANT bread. It says farmstyle bread on the package. I think the farmer that made this loaf may have been a giant, of the jack-and-the-beanstalk persuasion. This bread could be made of jack’s bones!
Total Time: 1/2 hour
active time: 20 minutes, if you just woke up like me
cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 slice farmstyle bread
butter
cheese
an apple (to make it seem healthy)
Arrange your ingredients out so you can take a nice picture. Oh wait, that’s just me.
Get out one slice of the bread and marvel at it’s hugemongousness. This slice could feed a starving family of four!
Put some butter in your pan, at medium heat. I used my sweet new cast-iron skillet. Make sure to cover the whole surface with butter.
Cut the giant slice in half.
Put as much cheese as you want on one slice. The bigger the slices of cheese, the less likely they are to fall out of your sandwich in the pan. Put that slice, cheese side up, in the pan.
Notice: I didn’t butter this slice. The bread will soak up the butter from the pan. I did this because my butter came straight from the fridge!
Butter the other slice on one side. This took a while with hard butter… Using a giant knife helps.
Put the buttered slice, butter side up, on top of the cheesed slice, in the pan.
Lift the sandwich to see if the bottom side looks like the picture below. If so, flip it. If the cheese has started to melt, it will be easier to flip.
It’s done when the cheese is melted and both sides look like this:
Grab your favourite hot sauce. You may use ketchup, but hot sauce is where it’s at!
I’m using mexican chipotle hot sauce.
FUN FACT:
“Chipotle” is not pronounced CHIP-POL-TEE, contrary to popular opinion. The truth is, “chipotle” rhymes with “remotely”. It’s “remotely chipotle”.
NOT EVEN REMOTELY (chipotle, heheheh) RELATED FUN FACT:
“Nuclear” is pronounced NU-CLEER, not NU-KU-LAR. It’s true. “This pronunciation is disapproved, although some dictionaries recognize it because of its increasing usage.” (Wikipedia) Don’t listen to Dubya or Jack Bauer. NU-CLEER.
Slice up an apple really thin, for visual effect, and so it looks healthy. Look, my plate is half fresh fruit!
Cheers!
December 19th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I thought Jack Bauer said it right - - I’m going to have to watch 24 again.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I am pretty sure he does, and did you dip that apple in hot sauce?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
maybe it was the pres in 24 that pronounced it wrong, to keep it realistic.
yes. i dipped the apple in hotsauce - it was an accident. an awesome, awesome accident. apples + hotsauce =